Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) leader Mick­ela Pan­day is dar­ing larg­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties who she claims have been ha­rass­ing her can­di­dates on the cam­paign trail to tar­get her in­stead.

“I’m jeal­ous a lil bit, not of the bul­ly­ing but come nah, if you bul­ly­ing you have to be fright­ened right, no­body eh bul­ly­ing me yet,” she joked dur­ing a meet­ing at Twin Walls, San Fer­nan­do, on Sun­day.

At the time, she was de­fend­ing PF can­di­date for Oropouche East, Dan­ny Jadoo­nanan, who had ear­li­er re­vealed the in­tim­ida­to­ry tac­tics were get­ting worse on the cam­paign.

“The Pa­tri­ot­ic Front is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a lot of bul­ly­ing that is tak­ing place right now. They con­tin­ue to bul­ly us, be­cause you know why? We ain’t thief noth­ing, we ain’t have no po­lice and no EM­BD (Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd) in­ves­ti­gat­ing we. We ain’t have no cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tion, so what they go say—split the vote, PNM fund­ing we, so they have to find some­thing to say,” Jadoo­nanan said at the meet­ing.

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day on the claims, Jadoo­nanan said he has al­so re­ceived calls with threats to his wife and fam­i­ly. He said he al­so stopped post­ing his walk­outs be­cause peo­ple have been fol­low­ing them.

“The man call me—Mick­ela fund­ed by the PNM and I will shoot up your house, I will shoot up your fam­i­ly,” he said.

He said he has since made a re­port to the Bar­rack­pore Po­lice Sta­tion.

Jadoo­nanan said apart from this, even his fam­i­ly has turned against him be­cause he would not with­draw his PF nom­i­na­tion. He said in a let­ter dat­ed April 7, 2025, the own­ers of South Ranch Lim­it­ed (a com­pa­ny that pro­vides wed­ding venues), who are his rel­a­tives, stat­ed they were not af­fil­i­at­ed with the PF or him­self. In­stead, he said the com­pa­ny, whose mot­to is “Where fam­i­lies come to­geth­er,” pledged their al­le­giance to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and its can­di­date Dr Roodal Mooni­lal. The let­ter was signed by com­pa­ny sec­re­tary Bri­an­na Jodoo­nanan.

Dur­ing the meet­ing on Sun­day, Pan­day com­mend­ed Jadoo­nanan, who was not sched­uled to speak at the meet­ing, for his courage, as she de­scribed his sit­u­a­tion in Oropouche East as dire. She asked sup­port­ers in San Fer­nan­do for their part­ner­ship and sup­port as they move away from the old pol­i­tics.

Ear­li­er this month, the PF had al­so said threats from oth­er par­ties had forced four of their elec­tion can­di­dates to with­draw from the race.

Guardian Me­dia tried con­tact­ing out­go­ing Oropouche East MP Mooni­lal for com­ment but up un­til press time there was no re­sponse.

Al­so con­tact­ed on the al­le­ga­tions yes­ter­day, UNC chair­man Dave Tan­coo said, “If this is hap­pen­ing he should have re­port­ed it to the po­lice and pro­vide ev­i­dence of his claims.”