The Foreign Affairs and Communications Minister made the statement in response to the former Prime Minister's decision to put up a full slate of candidates for the party's internal election in March 2012.
Rambachan, who is one of the party's three deputy leaders, also announced that he will run again.
He said Panday is “still smarting from defeat he got at the hands of Kamla Persad-Bissessar” in January 2010, adding that the former UNC leader appears to be still be "caught up in the past.”
He said Panday still has a contribution to make to the party but he is not taking advantage of opportunities available to him.
“Mr Panday has a glorious opportunity to lend his political skills to the party and the country. But by his own actions he is destroying the legacy he could have built and left. I think it is most unfortunate,” Rambachan said.
The Tabaquite MP dismissed Panday’s announcement that he is putting together a slate to contest the election as one of “his antics”. “Mr Panday is man of antics, one doesn’t expect more or less from him,” he said.
Rambachan said Panday's challenge will not affect the party. “The UNC is a very strong party under the leadership of Kamla Persad-Bissessar. The UNC was a party that did not have any possibility of winning any election under the leadership of Mr Panday," he said.
“In fact Mr Panday lost five general elections and a number of local government elections. With the advent of our leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar we won a constitutional majority in the Parliament,” Rambachan declared.
Speaking aboiut his own chances against a rival candidate, Rambachan said he is not worried at all. “That candidate has to get 10,384 votes first so I am not worried at all. Not at all,” Rambachan declared confidently.
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