Statement by Rohan Roopnarine, PPP polling agent – 1985 Elections – Appendix F

I would just like to state concisely the incident that took place. On the Election morning everything was peaceful and tranquil.

On the latter part of the day a vehicle arrived and a thug came up and demanded the list of names which I bluntly refused to give. That later developed into a controversy between me and the other officers all of whom were hostile to me.

At the stage I proposed a question to the PNC thug, as to if the Constitution in any Chapter, or the Representation of the peoples act permit this? All during this time I was making notes of what was taking place.

And ultimately I was forced to hand over the list of names and ordered outside. I describe that act as vagabondism. Later in the afternoon, another vehicle came to collect the ballot boxes. Also the note book which I had was subsequently taken away.