He said he was willing to do his part to rescue the country from
the People’s National Movement (PNM’s) rule.
“But you must do your part; you cannot satisfy our political
thirst to want power to save Trinidad and Tobago if we drink from
the cup of bitterness.
“We have to move on; we have to be strong.
“We have to give freely, whole-heartedly and selflessly, with
malice to none.
“Let us bind up our wounds so that we can deal quickly to
continue our task,” Maharaj said
Jack Warner, deputy political leader apologised (again) to Opposition
Leader, Basdeo Panday for attacks against him during the party’s
executive election last September.
He said he will never again treat Panday with any disrespect.
Warner, who was on the Progressive slate led by Winston Dookeran,
said the “new politics” that Dookeran has been speaking
of, “say that you must humble yourself”.
Referring to Ramesh Maharaj’ apology for what had happened
between himself and the UNC, Warner said it took a big man to say
“I am sorry”.
“New politics say you must bury your ego and put party before
self.
“New politics say put party before self.
“New politics say listen to what the people saying, and see
about the people’s business.
“To achieve all these things you can’t be misfit and
retractable in your views.
“You have to adapt to change.
“A true politician of new politics must know when to attack;
when to retreat, when to embrace change and when to remain firm,
when to rise and when to stand, when to sss..h up and when to talk.
Warner said the newspapers like “kuchoor” (bacchanal),
once it was UNC kuchoor.
He said UNC party members can’t understand the more they talk;
is the worst they make it.
Panday was very critical of those in the party who did not want
unity.
He said it was a small faction of indisciplined members at the leadership
level who did not want unity.
Panday said: “We are angry with one another because sometime
in the past we disagreed, quarrel and fought with one another; so
we vex and we not talking with one another.
“As long as that situation persists we shall never unite.
“In order to unite you have got to learn how to forgive.
“If you cannot forget, you have to learn how to forgive.
Panday continued: “When Ramesh did what he did in 2001 every
nerve in my body hurt; I dreamt of meeting him in a dark alley and
strangling him when no one was looking.
“But while I was pre-occupied the PNM was taking the country
down.
“I slowly realised that my despair was taking us nowhere.
“I asked myself for how long I will carry this burden of hate,
anger, bitterness, spite and malice.
“I decided the time has come to forgive even if I could not
forget.
“I said I must not allow the chains of the past to so chain
me to the present that I cannot move into the future.
“And I forgive,” Panday said. |
