Moves are reportedly afoot to remove Finance Minister Winston Dookeran as political leader of the Congress of the People (COP) which is one of the partners in the People’s Partnership government in Trinidad and Tobago.
Sources say the man in the challenger’s corner is Sports Minister Anil Roberts.
The Trinidad Express reported that Dookeran says he is not bothered by reports of such moves.
“I will not engage in such frivolities. There are major issues to deal with in the country,” he responded when asked to comment on the reports on Saturday.
Pressed for a further comment, Dookeran said, “You remember when Gandhi was spat on in the train in South Africa and the people asked him ‘aren’t you bothered about that?’ His response was ‘I don’t have to be bothered, he (the man who spat on him) has to be bothered because he’s the one who has done something wrong.’”
Sources said that there was strong support for Roberts to put himself up for the leadership position come March.
When contacted, Roberts said that if the people want him to serve he would willingly do so.
