The residents of several villages in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district have decided to boycott the Lok Sabha polls to register their protest against the lack of road infrastructure in the region that leads to a delay in getting medical facilities.
Pradeep Farshwan from Ganai village said the call to boycott the Parliamentary polls was given in December last year.
"In the last two years, two women delivered babies on their way to the hospital. We decided to boycott the Lok Sabha polls in December. We will not vote until a road connects our village. We wrote a letter to the Chief Minister about the problem on December 11. In February, village representatives, along with women, wrote a letter to the district magistrate about it," Mr. Pradeep said.
