Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Lyn­di­ra Ou­dit said Op­po­si­tion Leader Bas­deo Pan­day has com­pro­mised her safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty by ex­pos­ing her home ad­dress and tele­phone num­ber dur­ing a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing which was car­ried live on ra­dio and the In­ter­net on Tues­day night. Dur­ing a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing at Fe­lic­i­ty Pres­by­ter­ian School Pan­day read the full con­tents of a let­ter writ­ten by Ou­dit, which sup­port­ed his can­di­da­cy for po­lit­i­cal leader in the Jan­u­ary 24 in­ter­nal elec­tions of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and stat­ed her de­sire to be on his slate.

The let­ter con­tained her home ad­dress and cell­phone num­ber. Yes­ter­day, Ou­dit said that was a most ir­re­spon­si­ble act. She said: "I am deeply con­cerned with the lack of re­spect for my safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty from a leader who goes around telling peo­ple he would en­sure the safe­ty of their daugh­ters and moth­ers and sis­ters and broth­ers. I am a moth­er, I am a daugh­ter." Ou­dit said his per­son­al at­tacks on in­di­vid­u­als did not au­gur well for him nor the par­ty. "He re­duces his lega­cy every­time he speaks and con­firms more in my mind why we need a change of lead­er­ship," she said.

Ad­mit­ting she wrote the let­ter pledg­ing her sup­port for Pan­day, Ou­dit ex­plained that when she did so there were on­ly two con­tenders for po­lit­i­cal leader–Pan­day and Ramesh Ma­haraj. She said of the two, Pan­day was the more at­trac­tive. "If I have to choose be­tween both now, I will choose Mr Pan­day," she added. Ou­dit said when Per­sad-Bisses­sar threw her hat in the ring, she switched al­le­giance, en­dors­ing her can­di­da­cy. "So that is not news. I spoke about this dur­ing the last week of De­cem­ber when I en­dorsed Kam­la. This shows the in­com­pe­tence of Mr Pan­day and his cam­paign team, be­cause even if he was out of the coun­try, his team should have in­formed him of this," she said.