Con­gress of the Peo­ple in­ter­im chair­man Lons­dale Williams has ad­vised that the fi­nan­cial state­ments of the par­ty sought by Prakash Ra­mad­har will be of­fi­cial­ly re­quest­ed at the par­ty’s next ex­ec­u­tive meet­ing, as the pub­lic spat be­tween the two con­tin­ues.

On Mon­day, Ra­mad­har, whose in­ter­im lead­er­ship po­si­tion with­in the par­ty is be­ing chal­lenged by Lons­dale Williams be­cause it is yet to be rat­i­fied by the ex­ec­u­tive, re­quest­ed the com­plete list of all na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive and na­tion­al coun­cil mem­bers, min­utes of the last 10 ex­ec­u­tive meet­ings, the par­ty’s ac­counts iden­ti­fy­ing its in­come and ex­pen­di­ture over the last three years and a re­port on the par­ty’s cur­rent ac­tive mem­ber­ship.

Since the re­quest, there has been pub­lic back and forth be­tween the two men, with Williams ad­vis­ing Ra­mad­har to make his re­quest at the next ex­ec­u­tive meet­ing.

“With re­gard to your sec­ond let­ter, please note that at our next sched­uled Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive meet­ings, re­ports from the var­i­ous sec­re­taries would be re­quest­ed. I am in­formed that per­sons are is­su­ing pub­lic state­ments, pur­port­ed­ly on be­half of the par­ty, who are nei­ther mem­bers of the Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive nor were they du­ly au­tho­rised to do so, with the in­ten­tion of cre­at­ing a false nar­ra­tive. As you are aware, this should not to be en­cour­aged giv­en the grave con­se­quences of such ac­tions, in­clud­ing bring­ing the par­ty in­to dis­re­pute and pub­lic ridicule. In this re­gard, I am ap­peal­ing to all mem­bers to de­sist from this prac­tice. Please be guid­ed ac­cord­ing­ly,” Williams said.

Last week, Williams ini­tial­ly an­nounced the re­turn of Ra­mad­har as the new in­ter­im leader. In a sub­se­quent me­dia re­lease, how­ev­er, this was re­scind­ed, as Williams said the ex­ec­u­tive had not yet met and de­cid­ed on the mat­ter.

Ra­mad­har pub­licly claimed he had been ap­point­ed in­ter­im leader af­ter for­mer in­ter­im leader Kirt Sin­nette re­signed on De­cem­ber 9.

No date for the next ex­ec­u­tive meet­ing was dis­closed.