Nali­ni Di­al yes­ter­day ten­dered her res­ig­na­tion from the Con­gress of the Peo­ple. In a let­ter ad­dressed to COP Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Ni­rad Tewarie, Di­al said, "In do­ing this, I feel a sense of re­lief, as if a bur­den has been tak­en off my shoul­ders. I no longer have to feel guilty for mis­lead­ing the pop­u­la­tion, when I sup­port­ed, cam­paigned, and vot­ed for this Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship."

Among the rea­sons giv­en for her de­ci­sion to leave, Di­al cit­ed "the mis­steps, mis­takes, mishaps, mis­deeds, com­mit­ted by the UNC part­ner in this govt, such as: the Resh­mi af­fair; the Gopaul con­tract; the SOE; the false as­sas­si­na­tion plot and the crime of the cen­tu­ry: Clause 34".

She said that in ad­di­tion she now had "to en­dure the mis­deeds com­mit­ted by some in my own par­ty, dur­ing our Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive Elec­tion. I wit­nessed the bi­as­ness and pref­er­en­tial treat­ment giv­en to a par­tic­u­lar can­di­date, by the Elec­tion Com­mis­sion." Di­al said, "I am forced to con­clude, that the COP has com­plete­ly lost its way."

She said she would re­turn her"COP/UNC par­ty card" to­day. "I say COP/UNC, be­cause we are now the UNC in­car­nate," she said.

"Where is the 'Good Gov­er­nance' and 'New Pol­i­tics', that we promised the peo­ple? Each day, I re­call when Mr. Win­ston Dook­er­an told us that the COP was go­ing in­to coali­tion with the UNC! I, as well as many oth­ers, were (sic) brought to tears. We knew then, as we know now, that this would be a ter­ri­ble mis­take, and now we are see­ing the re­sult of that de­ci­sion. It is said, that "the end must not jus­ti­fy the means', and now the en­tire coun­try is pay­ing the price for our mis­take," she said.