A CONCERTED e-mail campaign has begun by someone -- or group -- calling itself WD4PM, which aims to promote United National Congress’ (UNC) Political Leader Winston Dookeran for Prime Minister.

The anonymous e-mail account has also refused media requests for interviews, and is obviously trying to draw tech savvy, middle class, young professionals into what appears to be the groundwork for another political party.

And the “steering group,” which claims to be based in Couva is meant to counter what it calls a bias in information coming out of the Basdeo Panday faction of the UNC which is lobbying for the return of Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj to the fold.

The obvious propaganda machine says in one e-mail that “One matter that has been expressed to WD4PM of grave concern to a lot of people is the fact that they are unable to express opinions they may have, either through telephones being jammed at radio stations because of pre-arranged calls, or letters not being published, or calls for information and assistance being unheeded.

It promises that “WD4PM will soon be establishing broader information and communication networks via snail mail, text messaging and a public voice.

The members describe themselves as a “group of young Trinidadians and Tobagonians have come together to form WD4PM, an independent research organisation to support Winston Dookeran on his journey to become the next prime minister of our nation”.

They further claim “our group is comprised of 18-35 year old citizens and while we represent the view of the next generation of leaders of our nation. We are a group of members of the UNC, People’s National Movement (PNM), National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) and supporters of the defunct Citizens Alliance who have united in one organisation for one purpose.

“Our background cuts across all strata of society from the popularly abused grassroots to the seldom listened to University system,” the e-mail notes.

Granted it claims to be well researched the e-mail writer’s grammar is not perfect.

While fingers were pointed that it resembles the work or propagandist Roy Augustus, who was recently kicked out of Antigua, he could not be reached for comment.

An example of one e-mail reads: “Our nation has slip, slide (sic) and then tumbled down a very dangerous slope of racial discrimination, economic paradoxes, poverty, social entrapment, gang warfare and political involvement in crime.”

WD4PM has also trained its guns on Basdeo Panday saying: “The Leader of the Opposition becomes more contradictory, acerbic, antagonistic and dictatorial with his inability to let go of power and accept that the show is over for him.”

It speaks of “the emergence of sections of the electronic media making attempts to invent data that would support their perspectives, politicise independent organisations, attack the reputations of longstanding, respectable organisations.”

But given its high moral grounds the so called steering committee of WD4PM says it will not be giving media interviews.