A JOINER was found hanging yesterday from the roof of his bedroom at Foulis, East Coast Demerara, hours after his failed bid to vote in the national and regional elections, but his father and his wife have said that had nothing whatever to do with his suicide. Dead is 35-year-old Dinesh Badrinath, a father of one, of 404 Foulis, Enmore, East Coast Demerara.

There were rumours that Dinesh took his life because when he turned up at a polling station in Foulis to vote, he was told that he ‘does not exist’ because he was not registered ‘anywhere in this country’.
However, the dead man’s father, Jewanauth Badrinauth and his reputed wife Hemrajie Chanand, have stated stoutly that they cannot attribute the man’s suicide to him not being allowed to vote. “He never told us so, and therefore we would not want to lay blame anywhere,” the elder Badrinauth told the Guyana Chronicle.
Meanwhile, his wife Hemrajie recalled that Dinesh had left the home to go and vote earlier in the morning, but returned saying that they told him that he was not registered. “He ride around the place about four times and every time, they telling him that he was not registered,” the distraught wife said.
Asked whether he ever had a national identification (ID) card, she said yes, but added that he had lost it.
Hemrajie recalled that moments later she was in the bedroom with him and he asked her to go downstairs a while and take a rest, since he wanted some privacy. “That was all he told me – that he needed some privacy, and I went downstairs and left him.’’ She said, after not hearing from her husband for about 15 minutes, she became concerned and went back into the room, only to find his lifeless body hanging from the roof by a sheet. He was dribbling and his life had already been snuffed out.
Shocked out of her wits, she became hysterical and shouted for help. The police were summoned and Dinesh was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The woman who shared an intimate relationship with Dinesh for about three years, said they had no problems, no dispute nor was she aware that he had any problems with anyone else. She said the pain of his loss is even greater, since they were not able to share any parting words with each other. She remained in deep shock.
Dinesh Badrinath also leaves to mourn one brother, one sister and a son. His body will be cremated later this week.

By Shirley Thomas