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Sev­er­al po­lit­i­cal heavy­weights for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress ar­rived for screen­ing yes­ter­day with full the­atri­cal dis­plays and mu­sic, along with throngs of sup­port­ers.

Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, the in­cum­bent Oropouche East MP, ar­rived at the UNC head­quar­ters in Ch­agua­nas, sur­round­ed by sup­port­ers chip­ping to the rolling rhythms of tas­sa drums and sounds blast­ing from a mu­sic truck, as he pre­pared to present him­self be­fore the par­ty’s screen­ing com­mit­tee ahead of the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

Mooni­lal, who was on­ly re­cent­ly named in a fresh cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tion in the on­go­ing Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (EM­BD) court mat­ter, walked in­to the head­quar­ters with a broad smile, greet­ing his sup­port­ers.