Opposition politics moves into 21st century

It must be painful to let go of old India, but India is now a serious contender in the race to have human beings travelling the stars.

India outlawed child marriage as far back as 1955. India successfully launched a communications satellite using its 13-storey GSAT- 19 rocket on June 5 (Christian Science Monitor). Peasant-style Indian rituals are being obliterated by its advances in modern technology.

Time waits for no one and the ritual of child marriage must also not shackle modern TT to the past. Former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar should not be the only Hindu female to break glass ceilings. There is likely another Hindu girl who would have been lost to political TT or the business community because of being married off at an early age.

I took the view that Persad-Bissessar’s support of the outdated traditional views of the secretary general of the Maha Sabha, Sat Maharaj, to be evidence of a well brought up Hindu woman lending support to her religious leader who has allegedly always defended her using the considerable influential power of his religious position.

Inevitably, we have to stop being transfixed by the past. Some of us suffer the politics of religion because in some ways politics is becoming a religion in itself in TT .

June 9 is the day when Opposition politics moved into the 21st century.

LYNETTE JOSEPH Diego Martin