PM urges UNC members to stand by party ‘family’ in times of adversity

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­bers to re­main loy­al to one an­oth­er, warn­ing them to be pre­pared to con­front “wicked­ness” and de­fend their po­lit­i­cal fam­i­ly in times of ad­ver­si­ty.

In a sep­a­rate Di­vali mes­sage to UNC mem­bers yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar in­voked the Hin­du con­cept of Dhar­ma Yud­dha, or right­eous war, say­ing that stand­ing against in­jus­tice and pro­tect­ing loved ones re­quire courage and con­vic­tion.

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In a Face­book post, she re­flect­ed on the re­la­tion­ship be­tween Lord Ra­ma and his three broth­ers, Lak­sh­mana, Bhara­ta and Sha­trugh­na, say­ing their bonds rep­re­sent­ed “love, loy­al­ty, de­vo­tion and sac­ri­fice”.