Se­nior Re­porter/Pro­duc­er

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, sur­round­ed by thou­sands of sup­port­ers and new faces from sev­er­al fresh can­di­dates on her slate, proud­ly de­clared that af­ter 15 years, she has suc­cess­ful­ly “purged” her par­ty.

Speak­ing at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence in Ma­coya as the UNC and its Coali­tion of In­ter­ests of­fi­cial­ly launched its 39 can­di­dates for the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said, “I have purged the pol­i­tics of caste, class, nepo­tism, fam­i­ly con­nec­tions, seg­re­ga­tion, dis­crim­i­na­tion and dy­nasty from the UNC.”