Just how much the five mem­bers of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship have con­formed to their Fyz­abad ac­cord will be ex­am­ined at to­day's meet­ing of the Part­ners at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre. The 4 pm meet­ing, host­ed by UNC leader Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar, will take place af­ter the week­ly Cab­i­net meet­ing, Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) leader David Ab­du­lah has said.

The much-tout­ed ac­cord, signed by the lead­ers of the five po­lit­i­cal par­ties in the coali­tion on April 21, 2010, forms the ba­sis for its foun­da­tion. The ac­cord was the sub­ject of a huge for­mal launch of the PP at Char­lie King Junc­tion, Fyz­abad, in April 2010.

But the ac­cord has not been fail-safe. There have, for in­stance, been mount­ing calls from with­in the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) over the last year, first to re­vis­it and try to strength­en the ac­cord, and more late­ly, to do away with it com­plete­ly. At a Jan­u­ary meet­ing, ef­forts by COP chair­man Joseph Toney to seek a res­o­lu­tion to strength­en the ac­cord was in­stead met with calls from COP ac­tivists to do away with it.

Mem­bers not­ed that COP leader Prakash Ra­mad­har's re­cent call for meet­ing of Part­ner­ship lead­ers to set up mech­a­nisms for bet­ter in­ter­nal work­ings was met with crit­i­cism from some PP quar­ters. The COP, since then, has not moved on the ac­cord is­sue.

The ac­cord, how­ev­er, may be the ba­sis for jus­ti­fy­ing many of the con­cerns at to­day's meet­ing of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship lead­ers since the COP has cit­ed breach of sev­er­al prin­ci­ples in the most re­cent is­sues plagu­ing the Part­ner­ship. The MSJ al­so has ex­pressed con­cerns about var­i­ous is­sues con­cern­ing ac­cord prin­ci­ples.

The MSJ's ten-point frame­work of con­cerns will be among is­sues raised by the COP and an­oth­er part­ners at to­day's meet­ing. Ab­du­lah said yes­ter­day: "It will be a very long meet­ing."