(Trinidad Express) Congress of the People political leader Prakash Ramadhar said yesterday he was not afraid of former minister of national security Jack Warner’s platform plans to “deal” with him.
“Many people have threatened to deal with me over the years, I wait to be dealt with. I fear nothing,” Ramadhar said after a membership meeting yesterday at the party’s Operations Centre in Charlieville yesterday.
Ramadhar was referring to statements Warner made during his “Straight Talk” session in Felicity on Thursday where he said he planned to “deal” with his detractors, including Ramadhar and People’s National Movement political leader, Dr Keith Rowley.
“Whoever want to deal with me, let them come. We stand for what is right in this society, some say I am weak, but strength is not shouting or threatening, strength is about getting the work done,” he said.“All the tsunamis people was expecting..I will run from nothing and we know talk is cheap,” Ramadhar said.
Ramadhar said the party discussed Warner’s vacant seat of Chaguanas West, but has not yet decided on whether to field a candidate for that position.
“We will look and speak amongst ourselves first to see if it is in the interest of the party and in the interest of the country to possibly field a candidate in Chaguanas West,” Ramadhar said.
Ramadhar said while the party would collaborate with the rest of the People’s Partnership to plan out who would be contesting what seat, “no part of Trinidad nor Tobago is off-limits to the COP”.
“If at the end of our discussions we believe that in the interest of the people of Trinidad and Tobago for the COP to run for that seat, we will negotiate for it. However, if we feel that it may cause more difficulties than it would bring solutions, well then we would have a different view,” he said.With the party gearing up for local government elections, Ramadhar reiterated that the PNM was “no option” for the people of the country.
“We have already started to forget what they have represented, why the decay of our society has fallen into, they are directly responsible in a large part for it,” he said.
He admitted that the COP members were “working behind the scenes” to change the quality and values of the Government.
“A lot of mistakes have been made but we remain committed to the people of Trinidad and Tobago to fix those things,” he said.
The party, Ramadhar said, was also finalising its redesigned constitution, which is expected to be ratified in July which now includes a disciplinary section for members.
