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Apr 06, 2014 News
Jaipaul Sharma, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament who quit in a simmering row with Education Minister Priya Manickchand, yesterday took to the airwaves to vent his anger over what took place in the House last week and to explain to a plethora of callers his decision.
Sharma expressed to his viewers on the popular Voice of the People television show that he was tired of being the target of Manickchand and opined that there was an underlying reason for her attacks.
Sharma also used the airtime to call for a speed up in his father, Chandra Narine (CN) Sharma’s High Court rape cases, while expressing discontent with the ruling of House Speaker Raphael Trotman in allowing Manickchand to deliver her Budget speech with APNU’s alleged agreement to allow the Minister to do so.
Sharma told the nation that even if the Minister apologised to his father for insinuations made that he (CN) is a rapist, he was not looking for an apology for his father but for himself since “She (Manickchand) embarrassed a sitting MP.”
The younger Sharma said that Manickchand’s statement was prejudicial since his father’s rape matter is before the court and she would have made her own pronouncements on the issue, especially when she took to social media to justify her behaviour in the Assembly.
Sharma described the Speaker’s ruling as “dissatisfying and wrong” adding that he should withdraw his ruling and demand an apology from the Minister for her statement. He said further that he believes that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will continue to use his father’s rape case against him and he did not believe APNU should have to lose votes for it. “I wanted to speak on rape, it was part of my Budget speech, but Priya would say ask ya father. She will say I am a rapist.”
Sharma made it clear that he is still an executive member of the Justice for All Party but refuses to be a “football” for the Government.
The Education Minister was allowed to make her Budget presentation on Friday but was however silenced when Opposition members banged their desks, demanding an apology to Sharma.
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