Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

As Diego Mar­tin West can­di­date Dr Kei­th Row­ley mount­ed the PNM plat­form yes­ter­day, to whip up sup­port for the PNM, COP leader Win­ston Dook­er­an took him to task, say­ing no longer was there any prin­ci­ples in pol­i­tics. Dook­er­an was speak­ing dur­ing the UNC's ral­ly at Mid-Cen­tre Mall in Ch­agua­nas, where the 41 can­di­dates from UNC/COP/TOP/NJAC/MSJ were in­tro­duced to thou­sands of sup­port­ers. Dook­er­an said Row­ley's de­ci­sion had un­der­mined the pub­lic's trust in politi­cians. He told sup­port­ers: "Can you trust politi­cians un­der the cur­rent dis­pen­sa­tion af­ter all this?

"Can you trust what politi­cians do in the name of pro­tect­ing our fu­ture. "There are, ap­par­ent­ly, no prin­ci­ples in pol­i­tics to­day. The Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship lis­tens to the voic­es of the peo­ple, and that is the way to pro­tect our fu­ture. "The May 24 gen­er­al elec­tion con­sti­tut­ed the last law­ful op­por­tu­ni­ty for the res­i­dents of this coun­try to cur­tail the pol­i­tics of mal­ice, di­vi­sion, greed and in­com­pe­tence vis­it­ed up­on this land by the poli­cies and ac­tions of Patrick Man­ning and his dis­cred­it­ed ad­min­is­tra­tion."