THE United National Congress (UNC) is moving to kick out “sorf man” Winston Dookeran as political leader of the United National Congress (UNC).

The executive will meet over the next few days to discuss the strategy to remove Dookeran if he does not step down from the post, which was handed over to him by Political Leader Basdeo Panday.

Panday is now in jail for failing to declare a London bank account to the Integrity Commissioner while he was prime minister between 1997-1999.

UNC Deputy Political Leader Jack Warner, in an interview with TnT Mirror, said the UNC needs a leader who is a fighter.

He said that Dookeran does not posses the strong, forceful qualities as Panday and former Attorney General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj, to be a leader.

When asked whether the UNC did not realise that Dookeran was a “sorf man” when he was chosen to replace Panday as political leader, Warner said because of the convulsions in the party at the time, it was the correct thing to do.

He, however, denied that Dookeran’s appointment was just “window dressing” to give supporters there was a move to transform the party.

Warner also denied reports that he had shifted his support from Dookeran because he was offered the post of Political Leader.

“You will never see Warner as Political Leader of the UNC.

“I am not interested in that post,” he said firmly.

He said the executive will decide who will lead the UNC into the next general election but he is sure that it would not be Dookeran.

Warner feels that Ramesh Maharaj has leadership qualities, which he has shown and is a fighter.

This may be hint that Maharaj is in the running for the post of UNC Political Leader.

Siparia MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar is said to be a “dark horse” in the race.

Warner, who is also a FIFA vice-president, said the appointment of Persad-Bissessar as Opposition Leader is an interim one until the party settles its leadership crisis.

Dookeran, on the other hand, is a confused politician, unable to make a decision on whether he should leave the UNC or wait to be kicked out.

He told Mirror he saw as another attempt by UNC executive to humiliate and sideline him, the appointment of Persad-Bissessar as Opposition Leader in preference to the Political Leader.

But he was going to make a decision over the next few days, he said, as to his political future in the UNC.

“I am thinking about it,” he said.

There have been calls within the UNC and a wide-cross section of the community for Dookeran to pack up and leave the UNC. - (A.A.)