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For­mer En­vi­ron­men­tal Com­mis­sion chair­man Sunil Sookraj has filed a law­suit against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her Cab­i­net, over an al­leged de­ci­sion last year to re­voke his reap­point­ment.

The law­suit re­port­ed­ly chal­lenges the Cab­i­net’s ad­vice to the Pres­i­dent to re­voke Sookraj’s reap­point­ment, on the grounds that he held “an in­ter­est which is in­com­pat­i­ble with his ju­di­cial po­si­tion and the func­tion as a mem­ber of the com­mis­sion.”

Lawyers from the So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al’s De­part­ment in the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al are re­port­ed­ly bas­ing their ar­gu­ment on ev­i­dence that can prove Sookraj’s at­ten­dance at meet­ings of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and/or in­volve­ment in cam­paign ac­tiv­i­ties for the Gen­er­al Elec­tions of 2015, 2020, and in par­tic­u­lar, 2025.