?UNC MP Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj said he was un­cer­tain if he would at­tend to­day's UNC cau­cus at which Per­sad-Bisses­sar pro­pos­es to dis­cuss with MPs and oth­ers the is­sue of as­sum­ing the Op­po­si­tion Leader's post.

Ma­haraj said at noon yes­ter­day: "I've on­ly just re­ceived an in­vi­ta­tion to the cau­cus 'to dis­cuss the ap­point­ment' of Op­po­si­tion Leader and I'll try to get out of my cur­rent com­mit­ments to at­tend. "But, it seems that is­sue has al­ready been dis­cussed by some UNC mem­bers and the pub­lic in the last three weeks. So why have a cau­cus now to dis­cuss it with MPs?" He added: "We saw all these head­lines about 'eight sup­port­ing Kam­la,' and oth­er press re­leas­es. We ac­cuse the PNM of hav­ing no con­ver­sa­tions with the unions on the TTRA and oth­er mat­ters when we our­selves are not prac­tis­ing what we preach.

Princes Town MP Sub­has Pan­day said at 12.30 pm yes­ter­day he had not yet re­ceived an in­vi­ta­tion to the cau­cus and would have to check his e-mail to see if he was in­vit­ed. Cou­va South MP Kelvin Ram­nath said: "It makes no sense at­tend­ing a meet­ing where the is­sue is a fait ac­com­pli. I'm not sure the meet­ing will be use­ful since it should have been held im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter elec­tions. "But it seems they had no in­ter­est in hold­ing a meet­ing of all the MPs – which my­self and oth­ers had called for – since they en­gaged in cloak-and-dag­ger tac­tics to get the sup­port they need­ed."