While the Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple, Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Prakash Ra­mad­har and the par­ty's chair­man, Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan were try­ing to heal their re­la­tions in the eight-year-old par­ty, two promi­nent ac­tivists were en­gaged in a fist fight at the par­ty's Op­er­a­tion's Cen­tre in Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, on Sun­day.

This as the COP held its reg­u­lar na­tion­al coun­cil meet­ing. Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the COP Nicole Dy­er-Grif­fith read a joint state­ment is­sued by Ra­mad­har and Seep­er­sad-Bachan which was in­tend­ed to heal their re­la­tions from the par­ty's Ju­ly elec­tions for po­lit­i­cal leader of the par­ty. Dur­ing that cam­paign the two open­ly crit­i­cised each oth­er's per­for­mance at the ex­ec­u­tive lev­el.

Around lunchtime on Sun­day, two par­ty ac­tivists had a brief bat­tle out­side the meet­ing room as one ac­cused the oth­er of be­ing a snake. Sources say many in the COP were un­hap­py about the role of the ac­tivist who was called a snake. They ac­cused him of be­ing un­faith­ful to the par­ty in the past.

He de­clined com­ment on the mat­ter when con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, say­ing he was sor­ry for caus­ing the T&T Guardian to waste its time. The oth­er said he was not will­ing to com­ment on the mat­ter. "I will use an­oth­er op­tion to deal with it, not in the me­dia," he told the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day.Both Ra­mad­har and Seep­er­sad-Bachan were in the build­ing at the time of the in­ci­dent.