By Anish Chand in Nadi, Fiji
National Federation Party president Parmod Chand has described Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry as a “self-professed champion of the poor” and criticised him over “hallucinating” about the country.
Chand made the comment when responding to remarks made by Chaudhry during FLP’s Annual Delegates Conference in Nadi on Saturday.
Chaudhry described Fiji’s coalition government leadership as self-serving and lacking integrity, transparency and accountability.
“As the un-elected Finance Minister in the regime of Frank Bainimarama after the 2006 coup, [Chaudhry] famously stated that people must learn to live with high prices of basic food items essentials,” said Chand.
“The coalition government has been for the past 23 months re-establishing the foundation for genuine democracy, accountability, transparency and good governance dismantled firstly by the regime that Chaudhry was an integral part of for 18 months”.
“The likes of Mahendra Chaudhry can continue hallucinating”.
The current Coalition Finance Minister is Professor Biman Prasad, who is leader of the NFP.
Republished with permission.
