“Now that I am an elected member of the Executive I can raise the issue of leadership,” he said via e-mail.

When asked what role he saw Panday as having in the UNC he wrote:

“I will not directly answer this question.

“What I will say is that Panday can and will have a role in the party that he has worked so hard to build.”

However, some party supporters have stated that Panday is being pushed out of his post of Opposition Leader while Warner and Sadiq Baksh continue to rally for support for Winston Dookeran.

The trio has been hosting walkabouts to garner support from the electorate for Dookeran throughout the country called, “Walk with The Leadership of Listening.”

Senator Baksh said of the walkabouts that it was a good idea since it would bring Dookeran in touch with the people so that they could know what he meant by “getting the politics right”.

He refused to say what was the rush in removing Panday from his post as Opposition Leader opting instead to say he would not “add fuel to the fire”.

Baksh said he believed that the bickering should stop since the UNC needed to come together to fight the common enemy, the People’s National Movement (PNM).

And even though Warner refused to talk about the meeting that was held on November 2 where Siparia MP Kamla Persad Bissessar, Senator Wade Mark, Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday, St. Augustine MP Winston Dookeran and Jack Warner all met at Dookeran’s house it is said it was called to deflate the ongoing tensions in the party.

Baksh said he felt that the walkabout was a good idea because it is geared towards improving the UNC and the leadership of the party should meet from time to time “on a regular basis to chart a course for the membership of the party”.

The next walkathon will be on November 11 in the Tunapuna area.