pirpainty bhagalpur beset with underdeveloped infrastructures miserable roads crime in diara riverine areas poor electricity potable drinking water problems related to transportation of food grains and farm produces like mango and sugarcane pirpainty assembly segment always been overshadowed by neighbouring kahalgaon assembly where the situation is no better yearns for vikas pirpainty which swapped between congress and cpi representatives since 1952 and barring 2000 rjd 2005 rjd and 2010 bjp doesnt present a picture of vikas development till date whereas issues troubling the electorates since independence in the country remain same even after 68years of freedom the winners since independence included 1952 siyaram singh congress 1957 ramjanam mahato congress 1962 baikunth ram congress 1967 ambika prasad cpi 1969 ambika prasad cpi 1972 ambika prasad cpi 1977 ambika prasad cpi 1980 dilip kumar sinha congress 1985 dilip kumar sinha congress 1990 ambika prasad cpi 1995 ambika prasad cpi 2000 shobhakant mandal rjd 2005 shobhakant mandal rjd and 2010 aman paswan bjp major issues are extremely bad condition of nh80 passing through the constituency beside other roads including connecting road between khstpsntpcbarahatlalmatia power crisis despite of ntpc unit at nearby kahalgaon irrigation hampered rural electrification work unemployment and migration of labour force pirpainty being a highyielding agriculture area famous for food grain yields as well as luscious mangoes produce from the hundreds of orchard spread in thousands of acres of land yearns for excellent road connectivity and rail communication network for transporting of horticulture produces to major trading places like kolkata and malda west bengal and jharkhand besides in the state demand for making pirpainty an administrative subdivision being echoed for solving problems remains unattended since several decades and people now want firm assurance from political parties at present pirpainty comes under kahalgaon subdivision it would be very interesting to watch whether there is polarization of votes on caste lines before polls and the peoples issues would is relegated to background or something good comes out from the election medley this time the main contestant in pirpainty assembly constituency are ramvilas paswan rjdmahagathbandhan lallan paswan bjpnda rjd rebel sunil paswan jan adhikar party of pappy yadavs third front in a predominantly kurmi muslim yadav and kharwar caste population besides sc st and others interestingly bjp could register win for the first time in 2010 after the constituency was reserved for sc subsequent to delimitation exercise aman paswan had opened the account for bjp in 2010 but was now replaced by lallan paswan satyadevesh prasad a retired schoolteacher says that we have been looking for vikas development but in vain so far each election same issues gets rakedup and after it is over nothing reaches the people bemoans he saying so it seems that it again will be caste not vikas that will matter bad for the state he quipped