SHAS­TRI BOODAN

“Di­vali al­lows for re­flec­tion on the dark state that Trinidad and To­ba­go is cur­rent­ly in…”

Sen­ti­ments shared by Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cou­va South, Rudranath In­dars­ingh MP, as he spoke with the me­dia at Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions host­ed by the Chin­maya Mis­sion at Cal­cut­ta Num­ber 3, Mc Bean, Cou­va, on Thurs­day night.

MP In­dars­ingh said the res­i­dents of Cou­va South will pull them­selves to­geth­er to cel­e­brate the Hin­du fes­ti­val of lights.

“There is a lot of dark­ness that has per­vad­ed the con­stituen­cy for the last sev­en years,” he ob­served.  “In the last year, it has come to the fore in a greater form and fash­ion. The state of the roads—it is the worst in the last 30 years.”

The Cou­va South MP went on to paint an even more pes­simistic pic­ture:

“The in­fra­struc­ture has col­lapsed from a drainage point of view… from a road point of view… from a pot­hole point of view… Wa­ter… and the Cou­va Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty is crum­bling.”

He added: “Crime is the or­der of the day not on­ly in Cou­va South but through­out the Coun­try.”

In­dars­ingh said the gov­ern­ment is em­bed­ded with a num­ber of con­tro­ver­sial fi­as­cos that seem nev­er-end­ing. He said

“There is a dark­ness that the coun­try needs to wres­tle with and where the coun­try is go­ing… Whilst we will cel­e­brate, we will re­flect on the dark state of T&T,” he said.