The To Preserve the Balisier (TPTB) group is looking to legal action over the unavailability of registration forms for members to vote in the PNM's internal election, says its spokesman Dr Bose Sharma.He said up to yesterday its members, who are backing Pennelope Beckles-Robinson to challenge incumbent leader Keith Rowley, were unable to get forms to register to vote. He said members needed about 1,000 forms but were being told there were none."It's beginning to look sinister now since other persons have been able to get forms though they are not from our side. We are looking at all misdemeanours and breach of rules," he added.
Sharma said the group also had concerns about the independence of the PNM's election commission which was being established to monitor the poll. He said some members would be drawn from the PNM's general council.He accused some leadership members of dictatorship and trying to intimidate voters. He pointed to alleged statements this week from the incumbent team that those who voted against them would be "jeopardising their political careers."
Noting statements by Rowley's team, he also accused the incumbents of flip-flopping on the Calder Hart issue and now calling it a mere "administrative problem" after Rowley had made out that it was a major corruption matter in 2010, helping to cause the demise of PNM's Manning government then.The TPTB's next meeting supporting Beckles-Robinson is in Sangre Grande next week, he said.