Ram Vilas Paswan's village still in lantern age

Jainarain Yadav, a resident of Alauli, said people have become habituated to living without electricity.

A district official told IANS that there are dozens of villages in Khagaria where people await electricity connections.

Nitish Kumar, while campaigning in support of his JD-U candidate and sitting MP from Khagaria, Dinesh Chandra Yadav, had taunted Lalu Prasad for trying to tackle darkness with his lantern (RJD's election symbol), while noting the availability of power in the state has gone up from 700 MW in 2005 to 2,400 MW in 2014.

Janata Dal-United leaders hope that the construction of a new power grid at Haripur in Alauli will help them garner votes in the election season.

The party is also hopeful to get the support of a section of Yadavs, a major chunk of Mahadalits and extreme backward castes.