With no relief announced by the Government for the migrant families, the ruling NC leaders and other political parties are providing only lip sympathy for the displaced persons.

Sansar Chand of village Lal Din says, ``We cannot send our children out due to the fear of Pakistani bullets and we cannot keep them inside the room without electricity. So we were left with no option but to shift them to our relatives' homes.''

The villages like Chandra Chak, Radua, Pharpur, Pansar and Manyari have witnessed complete shifting, whereas 80 per cent of families have shifted from Sada Chak, Chichwal and Chilardy Mawa.

Meanwhile, there are reports of continuous heavy firing between the Pak Rangers and BSF personnel at villages Khoura, Sada Chak andDolma during the night.

There are some common complaints of the people of Londi, Chadwal, Doma Chak, Chak Sade, Lal Din, Mangu Chak and Chann Mahaypur, which this reporter visited yesterday. The telephone lines remain faulty, and have been this way for one to three months at some places. The villages get electricity once or twice a day. There was also scarcity of water in most of the villages. Residents complained about the short supply of kerosene at village Londi.

The villagers are used to work and carry on with their normal activities even during the exchange of fire. As at Sade Chak village, Pak Rangers fired a few shots which were retaliated by the BSF. The villagers sitting at thada (a common place) were unconcerned and remained talking to The Indian Express. The lambardar of village Chak, Sadha Raj Kumar says, ``The medical team visited our village few days back, they did not have any medicine with them and the medicine prescribed can be purchased only from Hiranagar orKathua'' and added, ``What was the fun of sending such a medical team here?''.

However, there are people who have refused to move out despite an increase in the firing from across the border. At village Bobya just on the Zero line, a woman Sema Devi asserted: ``If our jawans are here, why should we leave them, we will live here and die here along with our jawans''.

A BSF officer, requesting anonymity, said ``Some people are cultivating their land, but most others only want Government relief and they have mastered the art of talking to media persons.''

A resident of Chann Lal Din, Amar Nath says, ``With the Lok Sabha elections a few months away, all political parties come here to exploit the situation but nobody sincerely fights for the cause of border villages.'' He said even the NC leaders who are visiting the border villages to assess the situation have forgotten the promises they made during their agitation last year.