According to the author, things could have been otherwise in the country if more time and effort were spent on improving the economy and creating jobs rather than on ‘‘netwayaz pei’’.

Last year, after their outright victory at the general election in November, the elected members of alliance Lepep had all the good reasons to express their jubilation and celebrate Christmas & New Year in great pomp with their dearest and nearest. In fact, that joyful moment of L’Alliance Lepep was made possible after the electorate decided to reject the partnership between PTr and MMM and voted massively in favour of MSM and its allies.

During his electoral campaign SAJ successfully won hearts and minds of the majority of the population and the supports from the media and even the trade unionists. They all rallied behind him in order to voice their protest against the vision of the second republic which NavinRamgoolam and Paul Berenger wanted to realise at any cost. While Navin and Paul were trying to sell their vision to the people, SAJ and his partners were gaining popularity, up and down the country, with their manifesto which was cleverly prepared to answer to the expectations of every section of population.

They, in fact, promised to the a) pensioners, to raise their pensions to Rs 5000 b) employees in both public and private sectors, to compensate their wages by Rs 600 and to introduce a minimum wage within three months of their ascend to power c) unemployed, the creation of 15000 jobs every year d) poor, to build 5000 houses every year f) motorists, to cut the prices of petrol and diesel by Rs 10 a litre g) consumers, to abolish TVA of 15% from sugar free fruit jus, cereals, vegetarian products and baby nappies h) candidates who apply for jobs in the public sector, to make sure that they are being chosen on the basis of meritocracy j) people, that political nominations at the head of the government institutions, authorities and parastatal bodies will be carried out on the basis of skill, integrity, talent and right qualifications and k) whole nation, that they will repeat history by creating a second economic miracle which will be sustained by an economic growth of above 5%.

It is very clear that, this government has failed to honour the majority of its promises and it is virtually impossible for its ministers to come forward and boast on a) an economic growth of 3.4% which is inferior to 2014 b) the loss of thousands of jobs following the shutdown of hundreds of companies during their first year in office c) the continuous increase in the prices of basic commodities d) the minimum wage which they have failed to introduce within a time frame of three months as promised in their programme e) the steep fall in consumers’ purchasing power f) their failure to cut petrol and diesel prices at the pumps from the time when oil prices started to tumble g) the shameful political nominations of dearest(papa, piti,neveu,nièce, tonton, tantine) and nearest (petit copain ek petit copine) h)an MBC which has not changed at all i) the way the freedom of information act is being procrastinated j) the lack of enthusiasm with regard to Foreign Direct Investment k) a government debt which has increased to more than 19billion rupees, from the beginning of the year, to reach 178.6 billion rupees in October 2015 and 200 billion rupees in June next year and l) the huge losses in the stock market indices and m) the acute problems which the public is facing at the hospitals now and then.

Unfortunately, the gouvernment l’alliance Lepep is in a sort more of a failure than an achievement because it had completely, failed to deliver on its promises which it made to the population a year ago. Things could have been otherwise if more time and effort were spent on improving the economy and creating jobs rather than on netwayaz pei, settling old scores with the previous regime and ministers spending more time abroad.