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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Rambally: My focus is on serving the people

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28 days ago
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Chaguanas West MP Dinesh Rambally is greeted by Imam Rasheed Karim at the UNC headquarters in Chaguanas as he prepared to be screened last night.

Chaguanas West MP Dinesh Rambally is greeted by Imam Rasheed Karim at the UNC headquarters in Chaguanas as he prepared to be screened last night.

SHASTRI BOODAN

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt 

Back­bencher and Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly says he will still serve the peo­ple of T&T, should he not be se­lect­ed to rep­re­sent the con­stituen­cy.

Speak­ing at the head of­fice of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in Ch­agua­nas be­fore fac­ing the screen­ing com­mit­tee, last night, Ram­bal­ly said his not be­ing se­lect­ed was not a de­ter­rent to him putting the peo­ple first.

“This MP work here didn’t make Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly, eh. For dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties, I have been do­ing dif­fer­ent things for dif­fer­ent groups,” he said

He said he sub­mit­ted his nom­i­na­tion pa­pers be­cause he was in­ter­est­ed in serv­ing the peo­ple.

“I am in­ter­est­ed in serv­ing the peo­ple, and I will not turn my back on them. So I in­tend to do as much as I can. This is the fo­rum. If my style of putting peo­ple first is not a style that peo­ple like, then we in for some prob­lems.”

Ram­bal­ly is one of five MPs that were back­benched af­ter chal­leng­ing Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last year for lead­er­ship of the par­ty.

The oth­ers in­clude Tabaquite MP Ani­ta Haynes, Na­pari­ma MP Rod­ney Charles, Ma­yaro MP Rush­ton Paray, and Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la MP Dr Rai Rag­bir.

Both the Na­pari­ma and Ch­agua­nas West seats were set to be screened last night.

Speak­ing with the me­dia about the dis­si­dents, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said Na­pari­ma MP Rush­ton Paray did not sub­mit his name for se­lec­tion. As for Ram­bal­ly, she said he would be giv­en a fair hear­ing and a de­ci­sion made that was best for both the par­ty and the coun­try.

Up to 9 pm, none of the can­di­dates had been screened, de­spite a start time of 6 pm.

Ram­bal­ly said while he was pre­pared to an­swer all ques­tions about his dis­sent, he want­ed those op­pos­ing him to know that healthy dis­sent was good.

When asked about his loy­al­ty to the par­ty giv­en his op­po­si­tion of the lead­er­ship, Ram­bal­ly said loy­al­ty was not just a word to him.

“That word loy­al­ty can’t be bandied around like is fruit to pick. They (oth­er can­di­dates who said they were loy­al to the par­ty) must de­fine what is loy­al­ty first. If they do that, then I will re­spond. But I know loy­al­ty to the peo­ple must come first.”

To date, the UNC has so far se­lect­ed can­di­dates for San Fer­nan­do West, Barataria/San Juan, Ch­agua­nas East, To­co/San­gre Grande, St Joseph, Arou­ca/Lopinot, Trinci­ty/Mal­oney, and San Fer­nan­do East.

Among some 28 can­di­dates vy­ing to be­come MPs are the UNC’s pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer, Kirk Meighoo, and Sen­a­tor Jayan­ti Lutch­me­di­al-Ram­di­al.


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