As a person, as a politician, even as a leader, make no mistake I like and respect Prakash Ramadhar a lot. I have said over and over and over again that were he not already an MP, a government Minister and a devoted family man he would possibly get my support for political leader, but he is all those things and more too besides, and therein lies the problem.
He is only one man and there are only so many hours in a day full of demands in ALL of his already strenuous responsibilities; Common sense says that a family man is a full time job, being a loving, attentive and present husband as well as a daddy is the service we do on God's behalf here on earth and this should never be pushed aside for anything as the time lost here will never ever come back. A Government Minister is a full time hands on burn-the-midnight-oil-to-be-successful responsibility, and for the country to be best served by this important Ministry the Minister ought not to be distracted; Being a Member of Parliament is to be in your constituency on the ground seven days a week so that the people can get the change they walked for, the change they fought for, the change they voted in their numbers for, so tell me, how in heaven's name will this man find time to grow our Party on top of all of these other responsibilities?
He cannot, and no matter how much he protests to the contrary, for every one of the things he succeeds at on this list he will hopelessly and completely fail at another.
We need a political leader focused, hands on and available 24/7 to the task of growing our Party into a national Party, by establishing 41 working constituency offices over the next three years, identifying and preparing possible candidates and constituency executives and grooming them and readying them for elections, by working in each constituency to drive the membership and prepare us for victory at the next general election.
Let us not fool ourselves, while we are in a coalition NOW, the Congress of the People MUST have intentions on governing on its own outright in the future or it will quickly become irrelevant to the politics and may well go the way of the NAR. There can be no denying this as no one forms a political party to be a junior member forever, and anyone pretending otherwise is being disingenuous and is hiding their true agenda.
As neither Praksah nor Anil for that matter will be able to serve the Party effectively I ask again, what is driving this burning and frenzied desire to control the COP?
What is behind it, or should I be asking who is behind it?
Whose agenda does it serve?
This is a no brainer and a non issue and the membership has to send a strong message that we want a strong Party and not some limp along junior version of ourselves, forever standing outside of the UNC door hat in hand hoping for a bligh.
If you care about our Party you MUST vote for Vernon De Lima, the only person in this race with the time, the vision and the desire to grow the Party, and if you love Prakash, save him from himself here, and relieve him of yet another burden...
Now I could understand if you want to be critical about Mr. Ramadhar on his policies or so forth but don't try and say that him running for leadership is going to affect his family life...that's just absurd. So you are saying that Barack Obama should have let Hilary Clinton go ahead and lead the Democratic party into that election so he could spend more time with his children. The absurdity of the statement I just made before is the nonsense you are talking now. I could say that he could be denying his grandchildren the opportunity of spending time with there grandfather but that is just as dumb...I believe that the party needs some young blood to lead this party and men like Mr. De Lima and Mr. Dookeran be the advisers to him and the party elected members. I admire his devotion to this party and I think that when the time comes and he knows to himself that the fight is lost that he doesn't allow votes to be wasted as we would not want Anil Roberts to be leader of this great party for you and I know that will be the end of COP.
ReplyDeleteMy anonymous friend, Obama is NOT the leader of the Democratic Party nor does he represent a Seat. His FULL TIME job is President, nothing else, freeing him up for some family quality time.
ReplyDeleteMethinks only Mr.Ramadhar himself should be the judge of whether or not being the head of the party is a burden.
ReplyDeleteAgain Anonymous, he is not making a decision to buy a sandwich for lunch but to influence the future development of the country and as to whether anyone can have the time to do all these jobs effectively is obvious.
ReplyDeleteWell it seems Mr. De Lima didn't have the time this morning to appear with his colleges on First Up..what excuse are you going to cough up for this...
ReplyDeleteHe had a family emergency and could not attend. His apologies were extended by the host at the end.
ReplyDeleteHe had a family emergency and could not attend. His apologies were extended by the host at the end.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the same reason you put forward that prakash should not run... come now, what's good for one isn't good for the other... what kind of double speak is that?