The poorest MLA within the Bihar Meeting, first-time Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator Ramvriksh Sada nonetheless lives in a two-room dwelling in his village Raun in Khagaria district that was constructed beneath the Indira Awas Yojana in 2004. Now, a video of Sada getting visibly emotional on receiving the keys to his new government-built dwelling in Patna has gone viral on-line.
The Alauli MLA who belongs to the Scheduled Caste (SC) Mushahar group now has the keys to the three-storey lodging at Patna’s Bir Chand Patel Path, which is near the Bihar legislature. On October 26 (Wednesday), Chief Minister Nitish Kumar gave Sada the keys. He was among the many eight fortunate MLAs who obtained possession of their homes as a part of the state authorities’s housing undertaking for legislators. On the occasion, a grateful Sada was seen touching the CM’s ft and saying {that a} poor individual getting a home was “a minimum of Diwali”. The video went viral the next day.
Sada instructed The Indian Specific on Friday, “I grew to become emotional after getting the keys to the federal government home within the coronary heart of the state capital as a result of I by no means dreamt of dwelling in such a home. I meant it after I stated that each time a poor individual will get one thing past his expectation it’s Diwali for him.”
The 47-year-old MLA, who has 5 sons and a daughter, stated he nonetheless can’t imagine that he now had the seven-room authorities home at his disposal whereas all these years he and his joint household of 12 members had been dwelling of their cramped village dwelling.
“I made a decision to hitch politics in 1995. On the time, I labored at a brick kiln. I went to see Lalu Prasad (RJD president) throughout an election marketing campaign occasion. I contested unsuccessfully on an RJD ticket in opposition to Pashupati Kumar Paras in 2000 and 2005 and eventually made it in 2020,” Sada stated, including that he ensured that each one his youngsters obtained schooling. The MLA proudly stated that his eldest son had a postgraduate diploma.
In keeping with Sada’s 2020 election affidavit, his belongings are valued at Rs 70,000, of which Rs 25,000 is money and Rs 5,000 money belongs to his spouse. His dwelling in Raun, in line with the affidavit, is value solely Rs 30,000 whereas an agriculture plot is valued at Rs 10,000. As per a voluntary disclosure that legislators are speculated to make, this yr Sada once more declared that he owns belongings value Rs 70,000.
The RJD chief stated he studied until Class 10 and was at all times good at making speeches. The RJD, Sada stated, backed him since 2000 when he contested for the primary time. He lastly made it in his third try in 2020 when he defeated Sadhana Devi of the Janata Dal (United). Following his victory, he renovated his dwelling.
Sada’s victory is critical as Alauli is the constituency from the place the late Ram Vilas Paswan of the Lok Janshakti Celebration made his electoral debut in 1969. Paswan’s youthful brother and present Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras, who heads the Nationwide Lok Janshakti Celebration, additionally made his electoral debut from Alauli within the October 2000 Meeting polls.
The occasion at which Sada obtained the important thing to his new dwelling additionally marked the start of the development of 65 three-storey houses for MLAs within the second part of the housing undertaking. All of the houses are being constructed inside one-and-a-half km of the state legislature at an estimated value of Rs 450 crore. Within the first part, 55 duplex houses had been handed over to MLCs in 2019. The remainder of the 178 three-storey buildings for MLAs and 20 duplex houses for MLCs are in several phases of building. Bihar has 243 MLAs and 75 MLCs.
Requested what number of of his relations would now shift to Patna, Sada stated, “There’s quite a lot of pleasure in my household about the home. We are going to resolve as soon as bypolls conclude on November 3.”