For­mer For­eign Af­fairs and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Min­is­ter dur­ing the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship ad­min­is­tra­tion, Dr Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan,  says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar must lead with ur­gency, pre­ci­sion, and hu­mil­i­ty—or risk re­peat­ing the same gov­er­nance fail­ures that vot­ers re­ject­ed.

While de­scrib­ing her re­turn to pow­er as “his­toric and un­prece­dent­ed,” Ram­bachan said the time for cel­e­bra­tion is over.

“Kar­ma has bit­ten Row­ley and Stu­art for their nasty, evil de­scrip­tions of her. They are all com­ing now for shel­ter at her feet,” he wrote in a memo styled as a di­rect mes­sage to the Prime Min­is­ter.

But Ram­bachan warned that past ex­pe­ri­ence can­not be­come a crutch. He urged Per­sad-Bisses­sar to im­me­di­ate­ly es­tab­lish a per­for­mance-dri­ven gov­ern­ment with tar­gets root­ed in the promis­es made on the cam­paign trail.

“She does not have the lux­u­ry of time,” he wrote. “With­in the first week, the mes­sage must be sent. Fear should not grip her mind where re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to the elec­torate is re­quired.”

He urged the Prime Min­is­ter to as­sign each MP to iden­ti­fy and re­solve 100 cit­i­zen ir­ri­tants in their con­stituen­cy with­in the first 100 days—point­ing to de­lays at gov­ern­ment of­fices, drug short­ages, pot­holes, and wa­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion as ur­gent na­tion­al is­sues.

He al­so called for an in­ter­nal cul­ture shift among min­is­ters. “Sev­er­al mem­bers of the UNC now in gov­ern­ment are per­pet­u­al­ly tardy. That tar­di­ness must be spo­ken to de­spite how loy­al they may have been. Loy­al­ty must not trump lead­er­ship and per­for­mance.”

Ram­bachan said min­is­te­r­i­al roles should not be treat­ed as po­lit­i­cal re­wards.

“A min­is­ter is both a leader and a man­ag­er. As a leader, you must in­spire. As a man­ag­er, you must de­liv­er.”

And while he wel­comed union sup­port for the coali­tion on the cam­paign trail, he made it clear that gov­er­nance now de­mands a new mind­set.

“The unions are now part of the gov­er­nance process. It’s not on­ly what we want—it’s what we must give.”