?UNC MP Vas­ant Bharath, who has stood be­side Op­po­si­tion leader Bas­deo Pan­day, con­firmed yes­ter­day he would sup­port in­com­ing Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad -Bisses­sar.

Bharath, for­mer UNC vice chair­man, is ex­pect­ed to at­tend to­day's UNC cau­cus held by Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­gard­ing the post and oth­er mat­ters. Bharath who was re­cent­ly strong­ly wooed by the new UNC ex­ec­u­tive, said of his po­si­tion: "At the end of the day, the la­dy (Per­sad-Bisses­sar) is the par­ty leader and about to be Op­po­si­tion Leader, there­fore I have no choice but to sup­port her, al­though I do have some reser­va­tions which I in­tend to dis­cuss with her and this con­cerns a grace­ful ex­it strat­e­gy for Mr Pan­day as Op­po­si­tion Leader.

"We as a peo­ple will al­ways be judged by how we deal with our el­ders and chil­dren there­fore that is why I have stuck it out with Mr Pan­day." Bharath added: "I had giv­en Mr Pan­day my word and stood by him dur­ing the par­ty elec­tion process but now that process is over and Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been elect­ed, etc, so I don't think I have much choice in the mat­ter." Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Pan­day had no com­ment on Bharath's ac­tion.