Sascha?Wil­son

One day be­fore High­way Re-Route Move­ment (HRM) leader Dr Wayne Kublals­ingh ends his nine-month hunger strike, he has vowed to use all his strength to en­sure the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship los­es the gen­er­al elec­tion.

He al­so came close to be­ing ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day af­ter he con­front­ed OAS se­cu­ri­ty, burst­ing the cau­tion tape in a cor­doned off area of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way ex­ten­sion con­struc­tion site in Pe­nal.

Fol­low­ing a press con­fer­ence at Gopie Trace to an­nounce of­fi­cial­ly he was end­ing his strike to­day, Kublals­ingh walked across to the con­struc­tion site, de­mand­ing to know what was be­ing con­struct­ed there.

When he got no an­swers, Kublals­ingh got an­gry and tried to en­ter the site, burst­ing the tape in the process.

He and an­oth­er HRM mem­ber had an ar­gu­ment with se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers be­fore he left, still with­out any an­swers.

Ear­li­er Kublals­ingh sig­nalled his in­ten­tion to fight against the PP Gov­ern­ment, say­ing: "We have two months of hard fight­ing and we will fight them down to the wire."

Al­though the HRM had meet­ings with var­i­ous po­lit­i­cal par­ties, Kublals­ingh said he would not be form­ing any po­lit­i­cal al­liance "but I know who I will not be vot­ing for," he said.

Kublals­ingh, who claimed he has been sur­viv­ing on tul­si leaf, wa­ter, co­conut wa­ter, an oc­ca­sion­al cup of dhal said al­though he felt weak, his fast had not se­ri­ous­ly af­fect­ed his health.

He em­barked on the hunger strike, the sec­ond in two years, af­ter the Gov­ern­ment re­fused to re­view the con­struc­tion of the con­tro­ver­sial Debe to Mon De­sir seg­ment of the high­way in Sep­tem­ber 2014.

Al­though the HRM's sup­port in the Pe­nal/Debe area has dwin­dled be­cause of in­tim­i­da­tion, Kublals­ingh said the HRM still had a lot of sup­port from sec­tions of the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty.

His rea­son for end­ing the strike at this time, he said, was to as­sist his mem­bers who were be­ing ter­rorised and ha­rassed by project man­ag­er Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (Nid­co) and OAS, to leave their prop­er­ty.

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Kublals­ingh in­tends to end his fast to­day around 10 am by con­sum­ing on a meal pre­pared by his moth­er Vil­ma Kublals­ingh. Vil­ma who was among a hand­ful of sup­port­ers at the camp­site, was not sure what she would pre­pare for her son to break his fast.

Ex­press­ing re­lief and hap­pi­ness that Kubals­ingh was end­ing his strike, she said God an­swered her prayers.

Whether she had any con­cerns about her son's bat­tle against the Gov­ern­ment, par­tic­u­lar­ly in this elec­tion sea­son, she said: "Not too much. I am a pray­ing per­son."

She did not think any­one would harm Kublals­ingh as he was "cov­ered in prayer."