I support 'Queen Kamla'

THE EDITOR: Once again Kamla Persad-Bissessar has shown leadership qualities which are sorely needed in this time of crisis in our nation. The former prime minister, unfairly blamed for leading the party into multiple electoral defeats, has now pulled the proverbial rabbit from the hat as she has excited the country with announcements of candidates in certain constituencies.

The revelation of Sean Sobers in San Fernando West may have caused a certain sense of anguish and fear in the incumbent and the bombshell announcement of councillor Michelle Benjamin for Moruga/Tableland is sure to revive memories of the impact of Selwyn Richardson in 1986.

Kamla has also announced Taharqa Obika in the Point Fortin seat and Charles in St Ann's. Both these young candidate will surely cause thousands and thousands to march throughout the country in support of the UNC as they rekindle images of the Black Power demonstration in the 1970s.

These bright candidates could certainly change the fortunes of the UNC which was saddled with the outdated political philosophy of Rudranath Capildeo and the cane-cutters.

Kamla is showing that the new politics is about abandoning those who laboured for long years and even marched in the mud and rain in Aranguez to form Club 88 and ultimately the UNC. Kamla will now lead the party to the promised land and if we are to believe the rumours, she will be instituting the approach to her present MPs that “all must go, all must go."

Kamla has suffered for a long time at the hands of those who preached national unity and partnership and she is now prepared to show all and sundry that she and her young inexperienced Turks are ready to lead the country out of the economic and social morass. Kamla’s new approach will be that youth and immaturity beats tried and tested experience all the time. Hail the queen!

MILTON SEENATH

Duncan Village.