It is said that a week is a long time in politics. There is still a week to go before the elections and it would be very interesting to see what happens in that time.
There are no friends in politics. All politicians are opportunists and are only in the game for their own personal interests. Whatever may have motivated a person to get involved in politics, it all goes out the window when that person attains political office. This is why the foolishness of the so-called Debates Commission was a colossal waste of the people's time and a distraction from the serious events in the country.
Everyone knows that the overwhelming complaint by citizens is the absence of the member of parliament, who is always ready to promise the moon and the stars in order to get your vote, and the abysmal failure of everyone of them to keep any of their promises.
It is therefore amusing to read the statements of the political grasshoppers who readily condemn their erstwhile colleagues while extolling the virtues of their former enemies. The very ones whom they were distancing themselves from very recently are now their best friends, invariably because of some personal relationship which it was not convenient to reveal before.
Politicians will never understand, or if they do understand, will never care for the purpose for which they were elected into office, that is, the Prime Minister's exhortation, "Serve the people, serve the people, serve the people" which resounds hollowly now. So many of them are quick to condemn what they so recently embraced, but equally so many of them can find fault where they saw none before.
It is bewildering what passes for politics in our land but one can only hope that one day we will achieve that level of maturity to be able to make the choices that are best for the country and not what is politically expedient.
Karan Mahabirsingh,
Carapichaima