I’m not quite sure this isn’t an Onion article.
The unmarried villagers were given hope that their access to potential partners would be eased during the last state assembly elections when, for the first time since independence, a party candidate on the campaign trail visited them.
Ram Chandra Singh Yadav assured the village of 1,500 people that he too would not get married unless he could get a road for them.
Believing his words, the villagers backed Mr Yadav in his successful campaign to win election in 2005.
But, after winning, the new Member of the Legislative Assembly not only got married the next year but, in the villagers’ eyes, added insult to injury by making the event a gala affair.
He is now the proud father of a two-year-old daughter.
When the villagers approached him to remind him of his promise to them, they say he asked them if they really believed that he too should remain a bachelor forever.
