Keith Rowley is demanding to know why police refused permission for his People's National Movement (PNM) to hold a meeting along the Eastern Main Road in Tunapuna, calling it "an act of discrimination".
In a media release the PNM leader is also claiming that police detained for two hours the party's campaign coordinator for Tunapuna/Piarco on Tuesday.
Rowley noted that during the campaign for the May 24 general election police granted permission to the Congress of the People (COP) to hold a meeting at the same venue.
He said the police "surprisingly have raised a series of frivolous objections and reneged on the approval of Monday". The party held the meeting at the Exodus Panyard in Tunapuna.
"The PNM condemns this obstructionist action of the officers concerned, and calls on the Commissioner of Police (Ag) to advise the police to do everything possible to maintain independence of the service and adhere to the motto to 'Protect and Serve'."
National Security Minister Brigadier John Sandy described the incident as "strange". He said he does not know the details, adding that he cannot "see why they would want to do that." He told the Trinidad Express he cannot say why it may have happened "because I don't know. I was in a meeting all afternoon."
In a media release the PNM leader is also claiming that police detained for two hours the party's campaign coordinator for Tunapuna/Piarco on Tuesday.
Rowley noted that during the campaign for the May 24 general election police granted permission to the Congress of the People (COP) to hold a meeting at the same venue.
He said the police "surprisingly have raised a series of frivolous objections and reneged on the approval of Monday". The party held the meeting at the Exodus Panyard in Tunapuna.
"The PNM condemns this obstructionist action of the officers concerned, and calls on the Commissioner of Police (Ag) to advise the police to do everything possible to maintain independence of the service and adhere to the motto to 'Protect and Serve'."
National Security Minister Brigadier John Sandy described the incident as "strange". He said he does not know the details, adding that he cannot "see why they would want to do that." He told the Trinidad Express he cannot say why it may have happened "because I don't know. I was in a meeting all afternoon."
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