Pollsters should not express political opinions

Dear Editor,

Is the Vishnu Bisram who wrote that letter titled “Have we been better off as a republic?” (07.03.01) the same Vishnu Bisram involved with NACTA? If so then something seems to be terribly wrong – is there no set of ethics which debar such an individual from expressing opinions and firing off barbs on political issues, such as in that letter?

Look, for example, at how he demonises the late President Burnham saying, for example “

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