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Make, Unmake, Remake and Unmake

21 mai 2012, 00:00

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1982 - Sir Anerood Jugnauth (SAJ) (MMM), Harish Boodhoo (HB)(PSM) and Paul R Berenger

(PRB)(MMM) share same political bed and win. 1983- SAJ (MMM), Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (SSR) Labour Party, HB and Sir Gaetan Duval (PMSD) share same political bed and win.

1986- SAJ, SGD and Labour Party go to polls and win.

1991 – SAJ and MMM go to polls and win.

1995- SAJ and an offshoot of MMM, the RMM, share same political bed and lose.

1995- Labour Party led by NR (the present Prime Minister) and MMM share same political bed and win.

1997- MMM is booted out of Government.

1997/8 – after a by-election won by the Labour Party, MMM and MSM form a Federatio with a Committee of the Wise. The Federation was unmade after MMM loses its seat in Beau Bassin.

2000- SAJ and PRB with HB team up and Labour Party with PMSD loses.

2000-Labour Party and PMSD out.

2005- MSM minus SAJ and MMM lose.

SAJ was booed, humiliated an subjected to unmentionable abuse by the Labour Party at the inauguration of the new Government led by the present Prime Minister. Contrary to what everyone expected from a proud SAJ i.e that he should resign, the latter stayed. What a blow to Rambo’s dignity!

2005- Labour Party starts proceedings in Supreme Court to declare null the election of Ashok Jugnauth and after lengthy proceedings both here and at the Privy Council, the latter loses his seat.

2005- MMM seduces Ashok Jugnauth to leave MSM.

2010- Labour Party and MMM keep talking about an electoral alliance but it is the MSM that the Labour Party with SAJ still as President seals an alliance and this team wins. MMM is in opposition.

2011- MSM is out of Government and SAJ declares that he will not quit. The Government holds on to a majority by a few MPs crossing the floor.

2012- Remake of 2000 between MMM, MSM with SAJ leaving Reduit to engage in active politics but HB is not part of it.

May 2012 – SAJ invites people to come to the public meeting organized jointly by MSM plus SAJ and MMM as he would be revealing mighty secrets about the bungalow (Roche Noire), who was there at the time of the robbery. The people apparently get titillated by listening to the horrors experienced at the hands and doings of burglars.

May 2012- The Prime Minister tries to get a crowd at his May Day rally by saying that there would be a ‘surprise guest’ at his meeting. Speculation was wild and it turned out that the surprise guest was Ashok Jugnauth, the very same person whose Parliamentary seat the Labour Party moved heaven and earth to annul on the ground of political corruption. HB was in the Labour Party crowd.

When we look at the level of the recent campaign for the Presidential election in France and the way that politicians of opposite camps behave towards each other, we can only borrow from that great South African author who said: Cry, my beloved country.

No one should be surprised if at the next election all these politicians are given the boot by the real holders of power, the people. The people are fed up with this kind of politics where they are taken for every political ride imagined by politicians.