"This is the be­gin­ning of the re­turn of Jack Warn­er," the for­mer Ch­agua­nas West MP de­clared yes­ter­day as he ar­rived for a mo­tor­cade to launch his re-elec­tion cam­paign at the Ca­roni Bird Sanc­tu­ary.Warn­er ar­rived around mid­day and was mobbed by sev­er­al peo­ple, in­clud­ing busi­ness­man and tele­vi­sion per­son­al­i­ty In­shan Ish­mael. Among those who turned out to sup­port the for­mer min­is­ter was pen­sion­er Par­bat­tie Sookhai, of Ca­roni, who hired a maxi-taxi to trans­port her fam­i­ly to the event.

Peo­ple start­ed gath­er­ing for the mo­tor­cade from as ear­ly as 10 am. Among them was Is­lam­ic cler­ic Rasheed Karim who used the oc­ca­sion to ap­peal to Mus­lims in the Ch­agua­nas West con­stituen­cy to vote for a can­di­date who is go­ing to show per­for­mance and fair­play to their re­li­gious com­mu­ni­ty.He said there are 2,000 Mus­lim vot­ers in Ch­agua­nas who will vote for a can­di­date who will not dis­crim­i­nate against mem­bers of their faith.

While he did not say whether he was sup­port­ing Warn­er's can­di­da­cy, Karim said he was pleased with the for­mer MP's per­for­mance.Be­fore the mo­tor­cade got go­ing, Warn­er told the peo­ple as­sem­bled that they were part of his­to­ry in the mak­ing.He said he would keep his op­tions open if he is not se­lect­ed by the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship to con­test the Ch­agua­nas West seat.