This personal attack started a long time ago

Aug 26, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,
I have read with keen interest and saw the Evening News and I am convinced that the malicious and vitriolic attack on Mr. Gobin Harbhajan is meant to silence him in his fight against corruption perpetrated by officials and other members of the Alliance for Change (AFC). However, he would not have been the first AFC member to experience this dirty display of venomous discharge, others were described as ‘rogues’.
However, it is the first time that the AFC has dispensed of any sort of decorum, tact or diplomacy in dealing with members who have dared to expose cronyism and corruption which have infested the party, moreso after the Coalition has assumed office in 2015. Since then we have seen the exodus of many high ranking members and the disintegration of the AFC’s Canada Chapter all due to the fact that the AFC leaders have miserably failed to live up to their founding principles and their promise to eradicate corruption.
AFC’s Abel Seetaram’s attempt at the Region 6 Agriculture Expo to besmirch the character of Mr. Harbhajan and to tempt him to act outside of the law failed miserably since the latter has lived up to the expectation of being a dignified politician who refused to ‘pelt stone at every dog that barked’ at him. He ignored Seetaram much to his (Seetaram’s) ire. Mr. Seetaram, however, has lived up to the public’s expectation of him.
It is also evident that Seetaram is willing to do more than singing for his supper. He claimed that he was sent by the Public Security Minister ‘to curse everyone other than the Regional Chairman’. This is indeed a bold proclamation by a cohort which has so far not been denied by the Minister. This Minister should resign with much haste.
This personal attack on Mr. Harbhajan started a long time ago and much effort was expended by this same group to ensure that Mr Harbhajan did not become a member of the National Executive of the AFC since that would have given him more power to fight corruption but they underestimated the tenacity of the man. When a person is totally committed to cause corrupt people will be unable to disrupt him from that anti-corruption crusade he has undertaken.
The Prime Minister’s Regional Office is an important one in Region 6 and it is the only ray of light through which people can get things done in Region 6 which has become so depressed economically and socially and the Regional Representative has impartially and objectively carried out his functions, never seeking personal favors and gains.
Yours sincerely,
Rohit Persaud

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