One day before Highway Re-Route Movement (HRM) leader Dr Wayne Kublalsingh ends his nine-month hunger strike, he has vowed to use all his strength to ensure the People’s Partnership loses the general election.
He also came close to being arrested yesterday after he confronted OAS security, bursting the caution tape in a cordoned off area of the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension construction site in Penal.
Following a press conference at Gopie Trace to announce officially he was ending his strike today, Kublalsingh walked across to the construction site, demanding to know what was being constructed there.
When he got no answers, Kublalsingh got angry and tried to enter the site, bursting the tape in the process.
He and another HRM member had an argument with security officers before he left, still without any answers.
Earlier Kublalsingh signalled his intention to fight against the PP Government, saying: “We have two months of hard fighting and we will fight them down to the wire.”
Although the HRM had meetings with various political parties, Kublalsingh said he would not be forming any political alliance “but I know who I will not be voting for,” he said.
Kublalsingh, who claimed he has been surviving on tulsi leaf, water, coconut water, an occasional cup of dhal said although he felt weak, his fast had not seriously affected his health.
He embarked on the hunger strike, the second in two years, after the Government refused to review the construction of the controversial Debe to Mon Desir segment of the highway in September 2014.
Although the HRM’s support in the Penal/Debe area has dwindled because of intimidation, Kublalsingh said the HRM still had a lot of support from sections of the national community.
His reason for ending the strike at this time, he said, was to assist his members who were being terrorised and harassed by project manager National Infrastructure Development Company (Nidco) and OAS, to leave their property.
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Kublalsingh intends to end his fast today around 10 am by consuming on a meal prepared by his mother Vilma Kublalsingh. Vilma who was among a handful of supporters at the campsite, was not sure what she would prepare for her son to break his fast.
Expressing relief and happiness that Kubalsingh was ending his strike, she said God answered her prayers.
Whether she had any concerns about her son’s battle against the Government, particularly in this election season, she said: “Not too much. I am a praying person.”
She did not think anyone would harm Kublalsingh as he was “covered in prayer.”