PE­TER CHRISTO­PHER

pe­ter.christo­pher@guardian.co.tt

“Take any re­ports of vi­o­lence or threats to the po­lice.”

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she had not heard of any in­ci­dent in­volv­ing her sup­port­ers and the deputy po­lit­i­cal leader for Move­ment for the So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) Rad­ha­ka Gual­bance when asked about the in­ci­dent yes­ter­day.

“No I have not but if any­thing should have hap­pened, take it to the po­lice,” said the UNC leader dur­ing a mo­tor­cade in Barataria.

“They are the ones if there has been any vi­o­lence or any un­to­ward or wrong do­ing, please make your re­ports to the po­lice.”

The Op­po­si­tion Leader al­so sim­i­lar­ly ad­vised her main po­lit­i­cal ri­val, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to do the same giv­en fresh claims that young UNC can­di­dates may al­so face al­le­ga­tions.

“For five years we have been hear­ing the same sto­ry for 10 years. Up to to­day no one could be charged, if there a mat­ters there are po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions, go to the po­lice. We are on the eve of elec­tion, they have the same play­book, re­peat, re­peat, re­peat. Af­ter five years no one is be­liev­ing a word they have to say,’ said Per­sad-Bisses­sar, con­cern­ing pos­si­ble al­le­ga­tions fac­ing her can­di­dates.

Gual­bance, the MSJ’s deputy Po­lit­i­cal leader and can­di­date for Fyz­abad claimed in a Face­book post over the week­end that she was phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ed by an ap­par­ent sup­port­er of the UNC while on the cam­paign trail.

Gual­bance said she was tar­get­ed be­cause she was a woman as she stat­ed that the man did not at­tack her male col­leagues dur­ing the walk­a­bout.