The reactions of the Labourites and their stooges against the speech of Sir Anerood Jugnauth (SAJ), the President of the Republic, at the Hindu House on sunday the 18thMarch, 2012, celebrating the 44th Independence anniversary of Mauritius and of his press declaration over his resignation last friday the 30th March, 2012, are very deplorable and can lead the country into great political and communal instability. As Head of State, SAJ has a duty to draw the attention of one and all to any danger ahead facing us.

Forty-four years ago, Mauritius gained its independence after 166 years of British rule. It’s greatest achievement must be the fact that, over the past few years, it has been able to successfully remove its total reliance on sugar production and to diversify its economy. In fact, Mauritius has moved from sugar to a cyber island in order to keep abreast with development and be able to compete with other developing countries.  Its population has increased tremendously and this has created a social explosion. The country has developed so quickly that its people fears other social and economical problems are on the way.

Will 2012 be a year of political development among certain political parties? The good old Labour days are gone. The scarcity of  “pur sang” in the Labour party, the loss of public confidence in the actual government, the loss of trust in high officials in our Civil Service under this Labour government and the loss of public security are all amounting to contributing factors of the downfall of this Labour government.

The water shortage is posing a great problem to the country these days despite we have lots of rainfalls for the past week. This could at times be understood due to drought and shortage of water in our reservoirs. But whenever there is distribution of water supply or CWA releases water, certain areas of Bel-Air/Rivière-Séche seem to be deprived of the supply of water. The lorry cistern very rarely comes to the rural areas of Bel-Air for the distribution of water to the residents.

Although the Finance Minister has made provisions to an interest rate of 8.5% in Budget 2012 to encourage Small Medium Enterprises (SME) companies to expand and build true incentives, this is still considered not enough to make SME completely successful. Today our country urgently needs a particular strategy of proliferating Small and Medium Enterprises not only to enable the resolution of the problem of unemployment and underemployment of people living in rural areas but also to boost their purchasing power, so that the additional demand created could push the country’s entire economy to grow at a faster pace.

Without a proper electoral reform in this country, no political party can go alone in an election despite the fact that there is a crying necessity for political parties to go solo. Why do we need an MMM/MSM alliance for this country? Today the country finds itself into a situation where it needs to be saved from communalism, nepotism, discrimination and also from the grips of social cultural organizations. Whether we still recall it or not, with an MMM/MSM alliance, experience has shown in the past that the country prospered well during the hey-day these two parties were in alliance.