When a small but meaningful number of Indian voters chose to cast their votes for the Alliance For Change and others not to vote at all rather than vote for the PPP/C, they made what I previously conceived as a possibility and referred to as an opening up of “a mammoth possibility for national renewal.” They and the AFC, which in the face of much opposition defined and implemented the strategy which enabled us to be in the present position, should be applauded for providing us with the best developmental opening in our political history.
I was one of those who believed that the PPP/C had the Indian people so locked in fear of the PNC and the political possibilities of an African dominated government that the kind of opening that has now occurred was near impossible. The unfortunate
