{"id":1624,"date":"2012-04-20T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T08:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2012\/04\/20\/b-ganesha\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T03:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T23:40:25","slug":"b-ganesha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/b-ganesha\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Coustik and Mr Check-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>By B. Ganesha<\/strong><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr Coustik has remained Mr Coustik, and while he is no longer Mr Check-off, he has also become Mr Check-out. After having engineered the exit of Shekar Naidu and Joe Lesjongard from the MSM of Pravind Jugnauth, and set brother against brother, nephew against uncle, he has now checked out Ashock Jugnauth from the so-called remake of 2000, and marginalized Eric Guimbeau from it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr Coustik is a past master in \u201cbr\u00fbler ce qu\u2019il a ador\u00e9\u201d, and \u201cadorer ce qu\u2019il a br\u00fbl\u00e9\u201d. And he does so all along in a cold, calculated, and cynical manner, with his perpetual credo that \u201cla fin justifie tous les moyens\u201d, and all these \u201cmoyens\u201d are iconoclastic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The so-called remake of 2000 is no more than a B\u00e9renger-Anerood Jugnauth get-together; it is not an MMM-MSM alliance, as B\u00e9renger particularly has shrewdly and superficially marketed it out to be. In the process, B\u00e9renger has marginalized little brother Pravind as someone insignificant. Within the MMM of B\u00e9renger, there are well-thinking members who are most unhappy with this remake of 2000. For the sake of expeditiousness, they are toeing B\u00e9renger\u2019s line for the time being. They are bound, sooner or later, to raise their heads and voices once their conscience and consciousness starts hitting harder. For the present, they have agreed to travel in the same ship: a ship which has been \u201ccolmat\u00e9\u201d and having on board, in the first-class and privileged cabins, those very persons who, not so long ago, were publicly denounced as \u201czotte m\u00eame achet\u00e9, zotte m\u00eame vend\u00e9\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No alliance based on common or shared personal animosity, no alliance based on and motivated by a personal agenda, can succeed in the Mauritius of today and of tomorrow. Only an alliance based on common and shared ideas and ideals, on service to the people and the country, on a shared vision for the future, led by a visionary and humanitarian leader, can, and shall succeed, for the common good, and for a still better, safer, and more secure future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr Coustik is condemned by his very nature to go on \u201ccousticking\u201d (somersaulting), until he is himself \u201cchecked out\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cTant va la cruche \u00e0 l\u2019eau qu\u2019\u00e0 la fin elle se brise\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 20 April 2012<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By B. 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