There is a canteen on the west side of the premises of the District Administration Office, Siraha. On Monday, some people were eating lunch in that canteen, some were chatting over tea. However, one person was found sitting alone in a dejected manner, holding a document in his hand.

He was Binod Mandal, 52, of Majhauliya, Kalyanpur Municipality-8. He did not come to the District Administration Office to get citizenship or any other certificate, he came here to seek help after not getting the recommended road to his home from his ward office.

However, despite wandering around the District Administration Office for two weeks, he has not found a solution. The Mandal couple had applied to the ward office on Push 9 for the recommendation of a road to his home for plot number 666 of the former Majhauliya-4, which was in the name of Binod's wife Kusumdevi Mandal.

The ward office staff prepared the road to his home on the same day based on the application and inspection of the land. The letter mentioned that there was neither a house nor a road on the land and that the land was suitable for agriculture. The Mandal couple took the letter to Ward Chairman Ramkishore Yadav. However, he did not sign it.

They went to Ward Chairman Yadav again the next day. But, despite all their persuasion, he did not budge. Four days later, they went to Ward Chairman Yadav again along with some local dignitaries. However, Binod said that Ward Chairman Yadav replied that he would not sign the recommendation letter under any circumstances.

After the Ward Chairman somehow did not sign the recommendation letter, Binod filed a complaint at the District Administration Office, Siraha on May 19. The District Administration Office wrote a letter to the Ward Office on the same day asking for a written reason for not giving the recommendation. After that, when Binod went to the Ward Office again to see if anything would happen, Ward Chairman Yadav replied that he would only come with the land deed.

On May 23, the board inspected the land with ward member Mohammad Alludin and five other locals and prepared a signed deed and went to Ward Chairman Yadav. However, Binod said that Ward Chairman Yadav again abused him and sent him back. Since then, he has been visiting the District Administration Office almost every day.

'I pleaded with him repeatedly, but he did not sign the recommendation letter saying, "I will not do your job, do whatever you want, go wherever you want," Binod said. 'I have been stuck in this mess for two months, I am frustrated, no one listens to us poor people.'

Binod, who works as a farmer in the village, does not speak Nepali. That is why he finds it difficult to communicate and get work done at the District Administration Office. 'I am an ordinary person from the village, and I do not even speak Nepali,' he said. 'The employees do not even talk properly to people like us, they are rude, I am confused.'

It is not because the documents are not received or cannot be done. Binod complains that Yadav, who rose from the Nepali Congress, did not give him a recommendation because he did not support him in the last local elections. 'He did this to me because I did not support him in the local elections,' he says, 'He treats not only me, but also others who do not vote for him in the same way.'

Financially poor, he had taken loans from his neighbors and married his daughter off three years ago. Binod wants to sell the farm and repay the loan. He needed a recommendation from the Land Revenue Office to sell the farm. However, he says that he could not sell the farm due to not receiving the recommendation and had to live in stress due to the demands of the moneylender.