"We have a fight on our hands and I believe in dealing with it until the matter is resolved one way or the other. I was born here. I am not a foreigner here. I have every right to fight for this country. We are not going to subjugate ourselves to a constitution of this kind [the racist 1990 Constitution], signing away all our rights and agreeing to be slaves."
Mahendra Chaudhry, on 1990 Racist Constitution
On 7 May 1999, FLP's Dr Ganesh Chand had disclosed in a Letters to Editor that he had warned his colleagues privately and publicly in 1992 that Sitiveni Rabuka cannot be trusted:
"This is my principled stand. On the eve of this [1999] election, the burning question remains: can Rabuka be trusted?"
