About 30 years ago. It was an hour's walk by road to reach Ruwakhola in the former Asigram VDC-1 of Sudurpaschim Dadeldhura. Ruwa Khola was found on the way. In the 1950s, due to the lack of a bridge, the bend of a pine tree was used to cross the river. As soon as the bridge was crossed, the house of the then Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was found. In that house, Sher Bahadur's 79-year-old father Prasad Singh Deuba, who became Prime Minister for the first time in Bhadra 2052, lived.

Sher Bahadur's father Prasad Singh was living in a simple one-story stone house in that place, which lacked infrastructure including electricity, telephone, and roads. Deuba's ancestral home was there. In 2053, Sher Bahadur was the Prime Minister of the coalition government. Sher Bahadur's father Prasad Singh had a long conversation with journalist Bishwamani Pokharel, who had reached Dadeldhura in 2006 during his reporting.

Prasad Singh was very happy that his son had become the Prime Minister. He said that he did not think that his son would become the Prime Minister. But he would occasionally remember the incident when he had to cross the Ruwa River by jumping over a bridge instead of a bridge. During the conversation, he stood up and pointed to the Ruwa River and said, 'My son is the Prime Minister. When he was the Home Minister, I said, "Build a bridge there," but he said, "Can't you just build a wooden bridge?" If so, we built a wooden bridge.'

It has been a year since my son became the Prime Minister. Will a concrete bridge be built there?' he had said earlier. He had said that even though his son Sher Bahadur had been the Prime Minister for a year, he had not come home. He had gone home once when he was the Home Minister. According to his father Prasad Singh, Sher Bahadur, who had spent one night in mid-October 2008, had not returned. That is why Prasad Singh had said, ‘He (Sher Bahadur) is a stranger to me.’ Prasad Singh, who owned 10 bighas of land in Madhesh and about 80 ropanis in the hills, had said, ‘I will not eat anyone’s earnings.’

He had said that Sher Bahadur did not own a single piece of land. He had said laughing, ‘I am richer than him!’ He had heard the news of his son becoming the Prime Minister on the radio. Prasad Singh was very happy that the eldest of his six brothers, Sher Bahadur, had married rather than become the Prime Minister. He was annoyed that the eldest tried to become a celibate even after the brothers got married.

‘Sher Bahadur’s mother (who passed away that year) was more worried. She used to argue a lot with Sher Bahadur – whether to marry or not. We also talked to many girls. After four years of deliberation, he agreed. We were old and old in Kathmandu, he chose his old woman. The girl I was looking for could have been illiterate, it was good that he looked for her,' Prasad Singh had said.

When asked if the daughter of the Rana family had married off to a big man, Prasad Singh's answer was, 'She (Arju Rana) is the wife of a big man. My son is the Prime Minister, how can she be big?' Prasad Singh had added with a laugh, 'She (Arju) is educated, knowledgeable, and cultured. She keeps asking me to stay in Kathmandu, but she has not come here.'

Prasad Singh was not happy that his daughter-in-law Arju left her job in a good organization after her son became the Prime Minister. That is why he had said during the conversation, ‘After leaving a good job, what will the Prime Minister do now, let him do it. She is his wife.’ Prasad Singh had complained that his other sons were not educated. When asked whether he had asked the Prime Minister for government jobs for his sons, he had said, ‘If they are educated, they will get jobs. If they are not educated, where will they get them? They do farming. It is a matter of their own intelligence and luck.’

Sher Bahadur was the first person in the village to pass BA. The school he attended offered classes up to grade 9 until 2053. ‘My eldest son (Sher Bahadur) was interested in studying. After finishing school from Baitadi and going to the capital, he got involved in politics,’ said Prasad Singh.

He used to get a job in Dadeldhura Land Revenue and send Sher Bahadur to Kathmandu to cover his education expenses. Studying in Kathmandu cost 10,000 per year. He had said, ‘It would cost around 10 thousand rupees a year, and he would register it and send it.’ Narrating the habit of Sher Bahadur, who would only go home every three or four years, Prasad Singh had said, ‘He would come when he was released from jail and after completing the examination. He would go after hearing that he had passed.’ He has no complaints about his son not having acquired property. He understood that electricity and water would come after the Mahakali Treaty was passed. Prasad Singh, who understood politics simply, had said that his son had never been angry with him.

When asked if Sher Bahadur smoked a lot, Prasad Singh had said, ‘I know he does, but he has never smoked in front of me.’ He had narrated the incident of seeing him smoke a cigarette for the first time at his residence in Pulchowk when he was the Home Minister. ‘Three years ago, he was eating in his room, and as soon as he saw me, he threw the cigarette under the bed,’ he had narrated in a luscious manner. The conversation that journalist Pokharel had with Prasad Singh, the father of the then Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, was published by Kantipur Daily on Kartik 3, 2053 under the title ‘Prime Minister’s Father Says – I Don’t Like Baluwatar’.’ During the conversation, he had said that he did not like Baluwatar (the Prime Minister’s residence). He had said, ‘I don’t like Baluwatar, I find this village pleasant, sometimes I go to Madhesh (Kanchanpur) and come back and live here.’ A concrete bridge has now been built across the Ruwakhola that Prasad Singh crossed.