Losing touch with UNC grassroots

Dear Mr Dookeran,

You have recently been attempting to portray yourself as a victim at the hands of the National Executive.

Your incoherent ramblings at the Parliamentary Arm meeting on Thursday only served to further establish your victim syndrome.

Your predicament is, unfortunately, directly of your own making.

To suggest otherwise and to lay the blame at the feet of others is to further reinforce many people’s views and indeed fears that you do not possess the necessary skills to run this great party.

Was it not you who proclaimed publicly that you did not support a slate in the internal election and then did so a few days later?

Was it not you who said that the members of the Progressive Slate, which you headed, were the only people to take the party and country forward and you could not work with members of the Patriot Slate?

Have you not been encouraging the antics of Ganga Singh, Manohar Ramsaran and others in discrediting the party and the party’s Chairman.

Surely you cannot claim ignorance on this matter, because if it were not at your instigation, surely you did nothing to discourage it.

Was it not you who joined with the PNM in loudly thumping your Parliamen-tary desk during the barrage of insults hurled at the party chairman by Ganga Singh?

Have you not been having meetings all over the country, some clashing with party meetings in the same constituency on the same night, to promote yourself without even informing the National Executive?

Have you not expressly stated to the National Executive that the party’s commitment to meet the people via a series of constituency visits is a complete waste of time and hence the reason you do not attend? Is it that you believe that the grassroots of the party are not as important as your friends in academia and big business?

Have you not adopted an aloof and condescending manner with the other members of the National Executive, most of whom you choose to have no verbal contact with?