and violated,
the Protective Services are under suspicion, the environment is
being destroyed, our races are becoming more polarised and the national
anthem has become a mockery.
Yet the major concern of certain United National Congress (UNC)
members is to do everything in their power, to prevent the return
of Ramesh.
The almost insurmountable problems facing our nation and the cries
of a people bounded by the chains of discrimination and dependency,
at the mercy of a junta, insistence on consolidating its power at
all cost, makes it imperative that all opposing forces must merge
together, to rid our nation of a government gone astray.
If it were not a fact, it would have been inconceivable that there
are members of the UNC willing to sacrifice the future of this country,
in order to hold on to their minor, insignificant trappings of status
and power.
Badges that serve neither God nor country but simply allow small
egoistical men to wallow in the putrid depths of their own delusions
of grandeau.
So once again Ramesh becomes the scapegoat, the propaganda machinery
works overtime, and the attacks begin.
One only needs to stand aside and objectively observe, the alleged
acts of corruption, nepotism, discrimination, the attacks on the
judiciary, the Red House issue, the President’s Grounds, Occupational
Safety and Health Act, the health sector, the education sector and
dare we forget, Vernon Paul.
Strange is it not, that another Paul could use the evidence of a
criminal to try and convict a doctor, but an alleged criminal’s
evidence is not good enough to investigate members of the government.
Missiles and cocaine, bombs and guns, teargas and rubber bullets
Blimps or limps and eyes in the sky.
We shall all be protected by military helicopters, while we say
a pray for the tourists robbed, raped and assaulted.
While the nation yearns for unity and strong leadership, the frenzied
jostling of the vultures, grabbing for a piece of UNC flesh, is
only slightly diminished by those wolves, which have openly bared
their fangs at Ramesh.
Running to and fro, frantically whispering to all who would hear
“Ramesh is back, Ramesh is back.”
“O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have
lost their reason.” (Julius Caesar Act 3 S11)
The maneuverings of the desperate, is indeed pathetic, since most
would know that Ramesh is the only individual at this time, capable
of providing an effective challenge to a People’s National
Movement (PNM) Government already descended into the pit of megalomaniac
madness.
Is there any justification for these certain UNC members to reject
unity and clamour against the return of Ramesh?
Perhaps these goodly gentlemen have failed to grasp that; compromise
is an integral part of the nature of politics. Can any of these
gentlemen claim to have a track record such as Ramesh?
Ramesh, who was arguable the best Attorney General ever, who organised
the UNC into an effective electoral machine, who became the unofficial
Opposition against the PNM, when the UNC became dormant.
Ask the Caroni workers, the squatters, the bamboo residents, the
farmers, the fishermen and others. One may even ask, where were
the UNC MPs, Dookeran included, when these people needed representation.
“Every movement with great aims has anxiously to watch it
does not lose connection with the masses.” (Adolf Hitler)
The truth is, individual against individual; Ramesh is more connected
to the “ground” than many UNC MPs can claim to be. Instead
of grabbing at the opportunity to create a formidable Opposition
to the PNM, many have even resorted to attacking Panday.
Biting the hand that fed them, cursing he whose salt they had eaten.
Indeed theirs is an inability to understand that, parting is death,
but coming together is a vision of resurrection.
In the interest of their so called integrity, these gentlemen should
not expect to be handed anything on a platter, instead those who
believe they are as powerful as “The Silver Fox” should
form a new party and challenge Panday, Ramesh, and Jack at the polls.
Those who view Dookeran, as the means of ushering in a new dawn
for the forgotten members of a now defunct National Alliance for
Reconstruction (NAR) will do well to remember the lessons of 1981,
and the bitter taste left in the mouth of the ONR. Thus, the victor
may suffer the fate of the vanquished, for daring to challenge,
but unable to turn the wheel full circle.
There is no doubt that Ramesh is integral to the fortunes of the
UNC. Whatever the reasons for his return, in the wider context of
the party, for years to come, men will continue to say, that the
return of Ramesh was one of its finest moments.
It has signalled the beginning of a new hope and the possibility
of the UNC once again evolving into an organisation, capable of
challenging the hegemony of the PNM.
In the chronicles of the rising sun, the return of Ramesh is a must.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the
flood, leads on to fortune ...
“And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our
ventures.” (Julius Caesar Act 4 sc 111). |
