There is confirmation today that former Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office, Parmesh Chand resigned from his post due to certain disagreements with Interim Prime Minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
Bainimarama has revealed that he and Chand had a discussion and then he decided to take leave.
However, Bainimarama says he would not reveal the reasons for the disagreements with Chand.
When the media questioned Bainimarama on how he felt after Parmesh Chand, who was his main right-hand man, had left the PM's office, the Interim PM first joked that he has his left hand and then agreed that Chand will definitely be missed.
Meanwhile, Bainimarama also confirmed that he did not want the Ministerial Contact Group to meet with the political party leaders.
Although the Interim PM did not want to comment on the Contact Group meeting the political parties today, he did say that he was concerned that the meetings were being scheduled.
Meanwhile, Bainimarama said the Ministerial Contact Group has accepted the fact that electoral reform has to take place before elections in March 2009.
Bainimarama made the statement with regards to the meeting with the Ministerial Contact Group yesterday.
Disagreements With PM Led to Chand’s Departure
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