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Saturday, July 26, 2025

More ‘step-down’ billboards go up

by

Otto Carrington
1767 days ago
20200923
Devant Maharaj stands near the anti-Kamla billboard on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, Macoya, yesterday.

Devant Maharaj stands near the anti-Kamla billboard on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, Macoya, yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

More bill­boards were erect­ed yes­ter­day call­ing for Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to step down as head of the par­ty.

The lat­est were at the Ma­coya whole­sale mar­ket, La Ro­maine and Clax­ton Bay.

The per­sons be­hind it, call them­selves a con­cerned group of UNC mem­bers and are led by for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter and sen­a­tor, De­vant Ma­haraj.

He start­ed the cam­paign the same week the UNC lost the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Ma­haraj re­spond­ed yes­ter­day to Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s de­ci­sion to chal­lenge all com­ers in the par­ty’s in­ter­nal elec­tions.

“It ap­pears that she has no shame and has no sense of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty. She ap­pears to be in­tox­i­cat­ed and drunk with po­lit­i­cal pow­er hold­ing on at her own ex­pense de­spite the loss­es and suf­fer­ing im­posed on the mem­ber­ship of the UNC. I think she should step down and not run for the in­ter­nal elec­tions. I think she has dis­qual­i­fied her­self af­ter los­ing eleven elec­tions and try­ing to present all sort of log­ic to jus­ti­fy her los­es,” he said.

He added: “Last night she said the UNC got more votes in Trinidad than the PNM this is what she is pre­sent­ing as an olive branch of hope to the mem­ber­ship but the Trinidad and To­ba­go elec­torate is not based on the pop­u­lar vote. If that was the case why did Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar not form her Cab­i­net to­day?”

The first bill­board ap­peared in San Juan.

Ma­haraj said, “The mon­ey is com­ing from the UNC per­son­nel’s sim­ple peo­ple who are so dis­il­lu­sioned with the lead­er­ship of Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar that they are will­ing to make the sac­ri­fice in this time of COVID-19 be­cause they recog­nise a strong op­po­si­tion is need­ed to hold the gov­ern­ment ac­count­able.”

He added: “At the Mon­day Night Fo­rum, she said she was brighter than the rest and I agree with her com­pared to the lot she has in the Par­lia­ment, yes she is in­deed the bright­est, but she is not the bright­est in the UNC,” Ma­haraj said.

Ma­haraj said more bill­boards will go up over the com­ing weeks.


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