The Arra River flows through the edge of the village. The river, which the locals also call the Charanghawa River, is barely 50 meters away from entering the village. The Nepal-India border is adjacent to the village's mud houses. Bhadui village, located in Kapilvastu area number 3, is now in Krishnanagar Municipality-12.

During the rainy season, there is a concern that the Arra will erode and wash away the settlement. Locals have been demanding to save the settlement for years. Despite pleading with the federal people's representative from the local level, no one has listened. The residents here said that they are eager to ask the candidates for the House of Representatives elections on Falgun 21 what their plan is to save the settlement from erosion. However, the candidates have not reached the settlement yet.

Locals are preparing to make a commitment to control the river as soon as the new candidate arrives in the village. Ramdev Kurmi, a local who cuts down the bushes, asked what they have done so far when the previous winning candidate came to ask for votes. In the past 80 years, the residents of Bhadui village have moved three times to avoid floods. 'Now there is no place to move, the river is ahead,' he said, 'Water falls from the roof of the house within ten yards.'

He said that 15 bighas of fields have been harvested so far. According to him, only 5/6 bighas of fields are left. There are 7 members in his family. He said that since the harvesting has not stopped, there is no telling when the remaining fields and houses will be washed away. ‘We have sent 4 people from Kapilvastu-3 since 2048,’ he said, ‘No one tried to save the settlement.’

Bhadui, which has 17 houses, and Manpur, which has 35 houses, also have the same problem. The villagers of Manpur are alert when black clouds appear. Locals say that they live chanting the name of God. Like Bhadui, Manpur settlement is also surrounded by rivers on three sides. Dakshin Bhadui is on the south side of the settlement. Both the villages are surrounded by rivers in a ‘U’ shape.

85-year-old Gajju Upadhyay of Manpur said he was fed up with the old leaders. ‘In 20 years, 16 bighas of fields have been eroded by the river,’ he said. ‘It has started becoming a problem to meet people in the evening and morning.’ He said that he could not sleep all night as the river swells during the rains.’

‘We have to stay awake and look after our children,’ he said. ‘We are tired of pleading with the MPs to stop the erosion of the river.’ But no one listened to Nirdha’s words.’ That is why he said he did not feel like voting in the elections. Locals say that so far, 1,000 bighas of fields have been eroded in two villages. These settlements have also been overshadowed from a development perspective. A suspension bridge was built on the river on the eastern side of the settlement eight years ago to reach the village. That too has become dilapidated. Some time ago, the bridge became unusable after the access road on both sides collapsed.

A 20-meter normal road has been built in Manpur village by laying bricks. Local 65-year-old Dharmaraj Pal said that it is impossible to walk on the road during the rains. ‘The mud comes up to the knees,’ he said. ‘They used to say that the roots of development in democracy are broken, I didn’t know what kind of development it was.’ He said that 20 bighas of land had been cut down in 10 years by four brothers. Now, he said, there are not even 20 bighas of land left. That is why all the villagers have decided to vote for the ‘village saver’.

The residents here have not even received the title deeds of the houses and properties that survived the cutting. The land was surveyed in 2076 after the leader’s house was raided. However, they have not been able to get the deeds yet. ‘That’s why I feel like asking questions when I see a candidate,’ said 57-year-old Bishwanath Maurya. ‘If you start asking questions, the candidate runs away. We don’t want a candidate who runs away.’ He says that a commitment is needed to alleviate the suffering of the villagers. Last year, the floods in Asar and Shrawan destroyed 150 bighas of farmland in Bhadui and Manpur. ‘We didn’t get any relief, and no one came to ask,’ says Maurya. ‘Why do we need such irresponsible public representatives?’ The floods also washed away the four-meter-wide and three-hundred-meter-long gravel road connecting Manpur and Bhadui.’

‘Now the time has passed to vote by listening to speeches, we need people’s representatives who will support us in our problems,’ said Ramsagar Chaudhary of Bhaduika, ‘The basic needs of the two villages have not been solved.’ The village lacks education, health, roads and employment. It is not possible to move from Asad to Asoj. If you want to study above class 6, you have to travel 5 to 10 kilometers to Hridaynagar and Saunahawa every day. The health post is three kilometers away in Bedarmi. There is a shortage of drinking water. The youth depend on India for employment. It is difficult to find people who have studied beyond class 10 in the village.

It is easier for the residents of this village to settle and do business with India than in Nepal. Four kilometers from the settlement is the Mainihawa market in Balrampur district of India. Once you reach India after crossing Nepali territory, you will find a good road. They reach India for food and treatment. ‘In India, services are available cheaply and easily,’ said Swaminath Maurya of Manpur, ‘The roads are not good in our area. We have to go far. Even if we go far, we do not get services easily.’