Dividing UNC seats

But there are some curious selections. Vasant Bharath, the newly arrived Deputy Chairman of the missing rice shipment fame, is carded to replace Winston Dookeran as the candidate for St Augustine. Wade Mark apart from a loud mouth has displayed few qualities to make him acceptable to voters in the marginal constituency of St Joseph. An insurance agent, whose capacity to make any meaningful contribution at the parliamentary level is questionable, is to be the candidate for Caroni East. The dynasty is intact as Mikela Panday goes for Couva North and Anushka Panday for one of the Princes Town seats. The prodigal son is to be rehabilitated in Couva South and the non-functioning Kelvin Ramnath is to be imposed on the constituents in Pointe-a-Pierre.

Then there are the MPS who have signalled that they want to move from constituencies which they currently represent for obvious reasons. Their constituents cannot find them and their representation has been woeful. So, Chandresh Sharma will be moved from Fyzabad, where he has his roots and which he has represented for 15 years, to one of the Oropouche seats. And the non-performing MP for Oropouche, who was the nominal representative for the past five years, is now going to Naparima. And Tim Gopeesingh who is originally from Fyzabad and resides in Maraval is to be given the other Oropouche seat. And so the manipulation goes which exposes the modus operandi of the UNC.