Cou­va South MP Rudranath In­dars­ingh made a ral­ly­ing call to sup­port­ers to come out in full force to give the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) a land­slide in the lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tions on De­cem­ber 2.

In­dars­ingh was the first speak­er as the UNC lo­cal gov­ern­ment ral­ly kicked off at Cou­va South Mul­ti-pur­pose car park a short while ago.

Ad­dress­ing a large crowd of sup­port­ers wear­ing in their yel­low jer­seys, In­dars­ingh lam­bast­ed the rul­ing Peo­ples Na­tion­al Move­ment de­scrib­ing them as as a cov­er-up gov­ern­ment.

While the PNM promised trans­paren­cy and open­ness in gov­er­nance, he said to­day the tax­pay­ers don’t know the true fig­ures as it re­lates to eco­nom­ic growth or un­em­ploy­ment, al­though it is es­ti­mat­ed over 66,000 peo­ple have lost their jobs. He al­so spoke to the cov­er-up in re­la­tion to the sex­u­al ha­rass­ment al­le­ga­tions lev­elled against the for­mer sports min­is­ter Dar­ryl Smith. He called out Labour Min­is­ter Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus to say what she has done about that since be­ing in Gov­ern­ment.

“She is the worst min­is­ter of labour in T&T,” he charged, as he al­so lam­bast­ed Works Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Kaz­im Ho­sein for not do­ing any­thing to ad­dress the poor drainage and road in­fra­struc­ture.

He said un­der a UNC gov­ern­ment led by Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, 135 col­lec­tive agree­ments were set­tled and 56,000 jobs were cre­at­ed, while VAT was re­duced on 7,000 food items and in­fla­tion was, ac­cord­ing to him, kept at its low­est.

“It has been pain, it has been mis­ery. It has been suf­fer­ing on work­ing-class and or­di­nary peo­ple of T&T.”

Sen­a­tor Sean Sobers al­so ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of starv­ing the po­lice ser­vice of re­sources to fight crime. He said the Gov­ern­ment had tout­ed the An­ti Gang leg­is­la­tion as the mag­ic bul­let to deal with high crime but yet over a year af­ter the law was en­act­ed on­ly sev­en of the 2,000 gang­sters iden­ti­fied by the Gov­ern­ment have been ar­rest­ed.

Al­so ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of in­com­pe­tence, Sen­a­tor Sad­dam Ho­sein called on the Row­ley ad­min­is­tra­tion to come clean on the land deal at Kay­don­na, Curepe, where land for the Curepe In­ter­change de­vel­op­ment was ac­quired. He said he will be ap­ply­ing un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act for the in­for­ma­tion.