Once you start hearing cliché like “put god in front and walk behind and the voice of the people is the voice of god and that we are screening persons for nomination al night, know that you are on a Kamla ride to nowhere. She is just under the illusion that she is the brightest person in the party, although she can’t pronounce the word ‘people’ and so many other words, but having arrived at the conclusion that you are even lesser mentally.
Kahlil Gibran rightly said you could only judge others based on the knowledge of yourself, does that mean she has figured out her supporters IQ and know that she could give you horse and BS every season of screening and that you’ll gobble it up like KFC accepting it on the ground that you should follow the leader knowing she is leading you down doomsday like the Pied Piper?
In every field of endeavour, management seeks the best to hire by stressing the qualities they are looking out for. Panday deleted Vishnu Tickasing, his nephew from his slate when Winston Dookeran appeared because of who the latter was. When Princes Town was ready to jettison Reeza, Panday adamantly rejected his brother Subhas as a replacement until a delegation convinced him that his brother was the lesser of the evils he was offered.
Point here is that Panday wanted the best and had an idea what that was and that it had nothing to do with favouritism or blood is thicker than water conditionality.
What is Padarath doing in Princes Town when Reeza and Subhas were indigenous to the area and both former students of St. Stephens’s College and blood relatives of the leader but both having to get in the party via Panday’s extreme unwillingness and vigilance.
So if you carry my bag, you are my bagman but you have nothing in your CV that qualifies you to be even a spectator, I should get you a safe seat to fight ensuring that you walk the corridors of power. That’s Kamla logic, and that is what her sycophants buy and sell.
Choosing a candidate requires that the selector has a sense of grandeur – that the One getting the nod must be some kind of heavyweight – intellectual, charismatic, a standout in something magnetic but when you settle for someone who has none of those transcendence, you are selling out the party, its followers. One who looks like a rodent and actually has as his name a rat could never have made it under the discerning Panday. Who says this woman is going to take this party to victory when she has no sense of grandeur let alone greatness?
The PNM could commit all kinds of wrong, be as incompetent as can be, but up against Kamla they have no opposition. She is walkover as she has been in the last two elections. Sorry supporters, if you don’t take charge of selecting candidates, it’s PNM again.
L. Siddhartha Orie.