Are Hindus and Muslims dividing in dry weather oily OneGuyana 2023?

Hindus and Muslims 

2021 and a Hindu man tells me that Muslims are saying that their time has come, in Region 3 where President Irfaan Ali is from. 

According to 2012 census, 25% of the population say they are Hindu, 7 % say they are Muslim.  There can be no assumptions about Hindus or Muslims vote.

Hindu organisations condemn the Pandit from the PNC who asks if the President does not want to work with him because he is Hindu. 

A man picks me up on the road to mandir and we talk about Bhagvad Gita, and the teaching and the lessons and consequences for the bad governance and the corruption in Guyana which many Hindus do not seem to object to.

He tells me that .. "and now the Muslims are getting anything.. " and shares stories about the discrimination against Hindus in favour of Muslims in the awarding of contracts at local Government level. He has no personal experience because he tells me in his years of doing business in Guyana "I never get a government contract "

I ask another man who is keen on Guyana's economics and politics and who is scientific in his thoughts.  He tells me that he is also hearing. He is not really measuring.  He reminds me that there was a Guiana United Muslim Party and wikipedia says that in 1964 and 1968 they contest elections, and states they were funded by the CIA and that they did not really split the PPP votes.

Another Hindu man tells me that Muslims in Guyana were going to form another political party and split the PPP vote so the Hindus had to concede when the PPP selected Irfaan Ali as their President.

He also tells me of complaints among PPP supporters that  is only friends and family getting things - not every single PPP supporter, and regardless of religion really. He tells me that Muslim resources are enough to convert many poor people who might have been aligned with the Hindu faith, but who might not have money for daily living.

Further dividing dry weather.. oily OneGuyana 

I have not voted in National elections. I have eaten salt from Muslims and Hindus who  support the PPP , and from people who think Modi's Hinduism is the best thing to happen to Hindus.

I have never heard before 2021, that Hindus felt that 'Muslims getting everything'. The economic discrimination is aligned with the Black/coolie and political party madness. 

The few Muslims I speak to about governance have not told me they expect any more from Irfaan Ali than they do from any other PPP or PNC President. 

And so in this messy oily OneGuyana, where divide and rule is working hard as the Oil industry cannot thrive in a place with strong institutions, do we just mutter among ourselves?  

The Ethnic Relations Commission is one place to deal with issues of discrimination on the basis of religion. The ERC though has to respond to complaints and then investigate . Complaints need evidence and affidavits and people willing to give testimony.

Bad feelings are not good, they grow and spread in ways and in a place with enough divisions, there should be no need to add another.

The irony though, is that the solution will require complaints, data gathering, evidence, discussion about the allocation of resources in dry weather OilyGuyana.

So maybe now is the opportunity for Hindus and Muslims to talk about this, openly and finding solutions. 

And maybe in fixing the experiences of discrimination, contribute to the fixing of the racial and other divisions in the place.

Because the place is getting hotter and many Hindus and Muslims and others will not have access to AC,  and divisions will not cool us down.