UNC Sen­a­tor, Jayan­ti Lutch­me­di­al-Ram­di­al, has come out in sup­port of Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, amid a UNC shake-up ahead of the Gen­er­al Elec­tions.

Lutch­me­di­al-Ram­di­al slammed crit­ics who have been say­ing she is out of the run­ning to be a prospec­tive can­di­date. “I have tak­en note of those com­ment­ing on me be­ing “out”, how­ev­er one can’t be out if they haven’t even be­gun their in­nings,” she wrote in a Face­book post.

She went fur­ther in adding, “While I am con­fi­dent my time at the crease will come in some form or fash­ion, the one thing I will not do is pick up my bat and go home over a de­ci­sion not be­ing in my favour. The team is big­ger than any in­di­vid­ual and no one is big­ger than the game.”

Lutch­me­di­al-Ram­di­al says it is un­for­tu­nate that peo­ple use harsh words such as “spite­ful” to de­scribe the Op­po­si­tion Leader.

“Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar has sup­port­ed me as a young woman in pol­i­tics in a way that was very moth­er­ly. Long be­fore I was in the Sen­ate, she took a keen in­ter­est in my abil­i­ties as a young at­tor­ney and cre­at­ed a space for me to grow,” Lutch­me­di­al-Ram­di­al said.