Dookeran can’t win single seat

The scattered nature of this support will not be able to bring a single seat for Dookeran. But, Dookeran is being advised that he can lead a third force which will pull the UNC base from Basdeo Panday and head for victory.

Vernon Jamadar and Alloy Lequay tried it in 1976. They failed. And Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj tried it in 2002 and he failed. What makes Dookeran so confident that he can go against the grain of history and succeed? I tell you, those who ignore history will leap into its dustbin and end up in the political cemetery.

Dookeran should know by now that Sadiq Baksh, as party organiser, could not have won his own seat when the crunch came. Neither Manohar Ramsaran, Gillian Lucky, Fuad Khan, Ganga Singh nor Dookeran himself, can win a seat on their own. Just ask Huslie Bhaggan! Sorry Winston, but your party may very well end up still-born!

D HARRIS

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