also faces the annual flood fury power situation worsens during floods and adds to the problems of locals a popular anecdote of haji waris ali shah the saint of dewa sharif shrine is also related to the floods in ghagra it is said that once haji waris ali shah ventured into the overflowing ghagra and walked on it as if was a road what happened in those days was a natural calamity but this one is rather manmade the river breaches the dam and ring dams along the ghagra each year but why wait for another flood to disturb life again and again said shailendra awasthi who lives in one of the affected villages apart from the local problems the caste factor also dominates politics in barabanki in the newly constituted zaidpur assembly segment candidates fielded by all the big political parties have rawat as their surname while the congress party has fielded baijnath rawat bsp has given ticket to ved prakash rawat son of former mp from barabanki kamla rawat similarly bjp and sp have fielded mlc ram naresh rawat and former zila pramukh ram gopal rawat respectively in barabanki most rawats are dalits not just legends mud mounds in the name of bunds villages which have never seen electricity lack of educational facilities present barabanki as an old world there is just one postgraduate college in entire city and if you are a science graduate you have to leave the city as the college does not have science faculty said sadaf naeem who moved to lucknow for higher studies like most other students summing it all a former bureaucrat from barabanki said as for now saints and gods keep life moving in barabankielections 2012 newsuttar pradesh assembly elections 2012