Sharma taking political behaviour to all-time low

THE EDITOR: The atrocious behaviour of Fyzabad MP Chandresh Sharma in the House of Representatives on Friday May 20, 2005, has defined to the Trinidad and Tobago public what Basdeo Panday meant when he said that “politics has its own brand of morality.” By refusing to respond to the Speaker of the House, the UNC Member of Parliament is telling the country that in the UNC camp morality means: disrespect for the laws of the land, set the worst possible example to the nation’s youth, at all costs disrupt and frustrate the smooth process of civil institutions and carry politics and political behaviour to the lowest level just to gain some attention. Our Parliament had been desecrated once before on July 27, 1990 by the Jamaat al Muslimeen’s attempted coup.

Now, 15 years later, Sharma has added his conduct to further tarnish the parliamentary chambers. Criminal behaviour in the society will never be contained when we have elected representatives engaging in such unseemly actions as Sharma’s and mature men unashamedly lending their support to him. The NAR wishes to let the country know that the decay of our society will continue — even in the midst of all the oil and gas wealth — until citizens begin to look beyond the UNC and PNM to a party such as the NAR which served for five years without any allegation of corruption levelled against it, and which made all efforts to maintain a high standard of behaviour in public office.

JEROME CHAITAN
Public Relations and Communications Officer
National Alliance for Reconstruction