Jamshedpur: In a hope to ward off the Naxal menace, a tribal villager has married a hillock in Jharkhand.

Nandi Munda, a married man with two children, applied sindoor (vermillion) on a rock of a hillock known as Lakhaisini , with a hope to stop the menace in his village Bhomru in Naxal-hit Ghatsila sub-division of East Singhbhum district.

When asked about the reason behind the marriage , Munda claimed he had dreamt of the hill goddess directing him to marry the hillock to save the village from naxal activities.

Some villagers had accompanied the 30-year-old man as barati to the hill, where the wedding was solemnised with traditional rituals followed by a feast in the village.

Prior to the marriage, Munda said he had formed a group of youths from his village, who were prepared to take pledge to fight Naxalites.
Such marriages were not uncommon in the tribal pockets of East and West Singhbhum districts, but usually they are conducted to dispel evil or diseases.

Interestingly, the wedding ceremony was held on Friday when the police of Jharkhand and neighbouring West Bengal decided to get rid of the barrier of jurisdiction in adjoining Maoist-hit areas to take faster action against the Naxalites.

Source : PTI