Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly said no one is try­ing to con­trol UNC po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as he urged her to lis­ten to par­ty mem­bers.

Yes­ter­day, Ram­bal­ly con­tin­ued to share his con­cerns about sev­er­al is­sues with­in the Op­po­si­tion par­ty—the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

Ram­bal­ly al­so dis­missed the UNC leader’s at­tack on the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha.

He again stressed the par­ty’s in­abil­i­ty to win the next gen­er­al elec­tion with Kam­la Per­sad-Biss­esar as po­lit­i­cal leader. Ac­cord­ing to Ram­bal­ly, he does not see vic­to­ry as a pos­si­bil­i­ty.

While shar­ing his con­cerns on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, Ram­bal­ly said the main is­sue was not about at­tack­ing Per­sad-Bisses­sar but rather fo­cus­ing on res­cu­ing the coun­try.

“I have deep and grave con­cerns over the abil­i­ty of Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar as the leader of the par­ty to take us in­to vic­to­ry in 2025.

“What we need to do right now in the UNC is strength­en our­selves to be able to win gov­ern­ment. If we can­not win gov­ern­ment, we are go­ing to go down an even steep­er slope in terms of bring­ing back this coun­try, res­cu­ing it from all of the so­cial ills that it is fac­ing right now,” he said.

Ram­bal­ly first broke his si­lence on is­sues with­in the par­ty last Fri­day at a news con­fer­ence at the Di­vali Na­gar in Ch­agua­nas where he called for re­struc­tur­ing of the UNC. He al­so called on Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­sign as leader of the par­ty.

He al­so high­light­ed is­sues about fi­nan­cial trans­paren­cy in the par­ty and said it had be­come al­most cult-like cul­ture. He even slammed Per­sad-Bisses­sar for turn­ing the UNC in­to a par­ty as­so­ci­at­ed with “cur­ry duck, rum and roti.”

In a press re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day, Ram­bal­ly al­so ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion Leader of hav­ing a new punch­ing bag, the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha.

He said that Per­sad-Bisses­sar ac­cused him of pro­mot­ing ex­trem­ism and im­ply­ing that the SDMS was at­tempt­ing to con­trol her. Ram­bal­ly added that if Per­sad-Bisses­sar tru­ly loved the mem­bers of the UNC as she claims then she should start lis­ten­ing to their con­cerns about her in­abil­i­ty to take the UNC in­to gov­ern­ment.

In an ex­clu­sive in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia last month, Per­sad-Bisses­sar dis­missed calls for her to step down say­ing she would not shirk her man­date or desert sup­port­ers. She al­so said she was fit and able to lead.

Mean­while last evening, Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray, who re­cent­ly called for Per­sad-Bisses­sar to call UNC na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions, was asked to at­tend a meet­ing with par­ty mem­bers in San Fer­nan­do. Tabaquite MP Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne and Na­pari­ma MP Rod­ney Charles, who both sup­port­ed Paray, were al­so ex­pect­ed to at­tend the closed door talks.