Samastipur: An insensitive/ interesting place

Today there is assembly election in few districts in Bihar including Samastipur. As per Bihar government assessment, all the districts accept Samastipur is sensitive!
What does it mean?
Mr. Lal Krishna Advani was arrested in 1991 at Samastipur following which whole of India was reeling under curfew for few weeks!
But Samastipur was calm!
No deaths, no fire!
Earlier in 1975 the then railway minister was killed on the railway platform at Samastipur when he was speaking at a meeting to inaugerate the platform!
In the highly charged days of Laloo, none of the strikes called by any political party used to be successful at Samastipur (by the standards of the local public - you can go anywhere uninterupted, will get the vehicles . . .)!
Is Samastipur a boring place?
Are people not interested?
NO!
Its just that people there have understood the core issues of life. That too in hard ways.
Samastipur was carved out in Year 1972 from the districts of Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur. Well connected place by train and bus. The district town is around 90 km from Patna. This place is connected to Delhi and Howrah by train and NH 28 and 103 to different places in India.
An administration centre for of the East Central Railway before; till 1970s there were several industries and small scale industries which included two sugar factory, paper mill (Thakur paper mill), jute Mill (Rameshwar jute Mill, Muktapur) and railway factory (Wagon wheel Factory).

Samastipur is rich in agriculture, because of its fertile plain. Tobacco, chilli, turmeric, beetle leaf (Paan), maize, rice and wheat are the main crops. Leechi and mango fruits are grown in abundance.
Starting from late 1960s, one by one the heavy industries started shutting down. Starting from paper mill, recurrent closures of the jute mill and then ultimately the closure of the Sugar mill in Laloo regime. All these retrogressive activities left the people to learn the hard lessons of life.
At present, people are left alone to live their lives by selling the green vegetables for which Pusa is famous (thanks to the agriculture university probably) on daily basis. Sugarcane producers have fallen back to fishery! Annual flood has broken the caste and religious barriers! Tobacco farmers are fighting the credit of the VYAPAREES (buisenessmen - who cheat more than doing buiseness). Chilli, turmeric and garlic are bought at 2 Rupees Kilo at the agriculture marcket by the buisenessmen and sold after few months at more than 100 rupees kg in the same marcket!
Last 40 years people have survived despite of the system, the state and the government!
And we know it all bone deep. That politics is to make the politicians stronger! Its no way going to make any difference with the common mass.

So, we are not tensed at all!

So, Samastipur is insensitive! Towards politics alone!

Samastipur is bounded on the north by the Bagmati River which separates it from Darbhanga district. On the west it is bordered by Vaishali and some part of Muzaffarpur district, on the south by the Ganges, while on its east it has Begusarai and some part of Khagaria district.


All of historic inportance!


Literacy rate is above national level - around 73%!


Home of many well known leaders like Shri Satya Narayan Sinha, freedom fighter and a prominent member of Indian National Congress, who was accommodated by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in his first cabinet. Satyanarian Sinha, who was elected to the Indian Parliament four times (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Lok Sabha) also served as a governor. Baliram Bhagat became a cabinet minister in the Indian government later, and also served as speaker. A yadav from the famous village of yadav's in Samastipur where in the years of Laloo he was insulted by his caste men and lost elesction to a non identity in 1991! Karpuri Thakur, a socialist leader of National stature became Chief Minister of Bihar twice, first in 1967 and then in 1977. Shri Anugrah Narayan Singh a great congress leader also served as an education minister of Bihar during congress region from Samastipur district. Pandit Yamuna Karjee, who was one of the pillars of Kisan Movement was from Deopar village in Pusa, Samastipur.