Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath be­lieves Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s an­nounce­ment that she has fi­nal­ly purged the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress is her de­c­la­ra­tion that the late Bas­deo Pan­day’s in­flu­ence in the par­ty is now over and there is al­so no way back for his daugh­ter in the par­ty.

On Sat­ur­day evening, at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, the UNC and its Coali­tion of In­ter­ests un­veiled their 39 can­di­dates for the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion. De­liv­er­ing the fea­ture ad­dress, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said, “I have purged the pol­i­tics of caste, class, nepo­tism, fam­i­ly con­nec­tions, seg­re­ga­tion, dis­crim­i­na­tion and dy­nasty from the UNC.”

In a veiled at­tack against her for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader and found­ing UNC mem­ber, she added, “It took me about 15 years to trans­form the UNC from a one-man show and hered­i­tary aris­toc­ra­cy in­to a mer­i­toc­ra­cy.”