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The Honourable
Mickela Panday
MP
Member of Parliament
for Oropouche West
In office
2007–2010
Preceded byconstituency established
Succeeded byStacy Roopnarine
Personal details
Political partyPatriotic Front (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations		United National Congress (until 2019)
Parent
RelativesSubhas Panday (uncle)
Sam Boodram (uncle)

Shalini Mickela Panday[1]: 11  is a Trinidad and Tobago attorney who is the leader of the Patriotic Front. She represented Oropouche West in the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2010.[2]

Early life and education

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Mickela Panday is of Indo-Trinidadian descent and is the daughter of former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago Basdeo Panday and his wife Oma Panday.[3][4] She completed her secondary education at Naparima Girls' High School and Naparima College in San Fernando.[5]

Panday earned a bachelor of laws (LL.B.) and is a member of Gray’s Inn. She is a practicing attorney in Trinidad and Tobago.[6]

Career

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Panday successfully contested the 2007 general elections as the United National Congress–Alliance candidate for the newly-formed Oropouche West constituency.[7][8]

In the 2010 UNC leadership elections, Kamla Persad-Bissessar defeated Basdeo Panday to become the new leader of the party.[9] Panday was screened as a candidate for the 2010 general elections,[10] but neither she nor her uncle Subhas Panday (who was the incumbent member of Parliament for Princes Town) were selected by the party.[11][12] Panday felt "victimised" by the selection of Stacy Roopnarine to replace her in the Oropouche West seat, saying "I didn't know who she was".[13]

Panday led a slate of candidates called the Next Generation to contest the UNC leadership elections in 2012,[14] but found herself and most of her family members absent from a list of party members. Panday and her mother were present on a revised list issued shortly before the election but her father and one of her sisters was not.[15] After the Next Generation slate lost the party election, Panday raised questions about irregularities in the process,[16] and the eligibility of San Fernando mayor Marlene Coudray, who was elected deputy political leader,[17] but said she and her group had no plans to leave the party.[16]

In 2019, Panday launched the Patriotic Front.[18] The party did not contest the 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election.[19]

She was the Patriotic Front candidate for Couva North in the 2025 Trinidad and Tobago general election.[20] This was the party's first election.[21] She was not elected and the party won no seats, but the Patriotic Front received the third highest number of votes out of any party, even beating out the elected Tobago People's Party.[22]

Electoral history

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2025 Trinidad and Tobago general election: Couva North[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
UNC Jearlean John 13,201 73.1% Increase
PNM Brent Maraj 3,094 17.1% Decrease
PF Mickela Panday 1,727 9.6% Steady
Majority 10,107 56.0% Increase
Turnout 18,064 58.88%
Registered electors 30,681
UNC hold

References

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  1. ^ Narcis-Scope, Fern (8 April 2025). Notice of Taking a Poll – Listing of Candidates and Polling Stations for the 2025 Parliamentary Elections (PDF). Elections and Boundaries Commission.
  2. ^ Tack, Clint Chan (29 January 2024). "Mickela Panday: 'I will continue Dad's legacy'". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
  3. ^ "Farewell, Papa". Trinidad Express Newspapers. 10 January 2024. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
  4. ^ Rodriguez, Khamarie (3 January 2025). "Mickela: I will carry his torch". Trinidad Express Newspapers. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
  5. ^ Arima Public Library (21 November 2021). "Today we welcome Ms.Mickela Panday to our platform". Facebook.
  6. ^ "Mickela Panday • Bocas Lit Fest". Retrieved 19 April 2025.
  7. ^ "UNC Alliance choose final 18". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  8. ^ "Ms. Mickela Panday". Parliament. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  9. ^ Ramdass, Anna (26 January 2010). "Kamla: 13,932; Bas 1,359 votes". Trinidad and Tobago Express. Archived from the original on 2 April 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  10. ^ "Mickela: Judge me on performance, not name". Trinidad and Tobago Express. 27 April 2010.
  11. ^ "Pandays booted out". Stabroek News. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Panday: Screening of daughter a 'sham'". Trinidad and Tobago Express. 28 April 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  13. ^ Ali, Ken (2 May 2010). "Mickela: I was victimised". Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  14. ^ "Mickela, not Bas, to contest UNC poll". Trinidad and Tobago Express. 18 December 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  15. ^ "Mickela's name back on UNC list...Bas' still missing". Trinidad and Tobago Express. 12 March 2021.
  16. ^ a b Ragoonath, Reshma (2 April 2012). "Mickela: Generation Next not leaving UNC". Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  17. ^ "Mickela: Disqualify Coudray if she was not UNC for 12 months". Trinidad and Tobago Express. 31 March 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  18. ^ "Mickela Panday launches Patriotic Front". Trinidad and Tobago Guardian. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  19. ^ Khan, Rishard (26 May 2024). "[UPDATED] Mickela Panday to contest 2025 general election". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
  20. ^ "Mickela laments state of 'neglected' Couva North". Trinidad Express Newspapers. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
  21. ^ "Tears for Panday". Trinidad Express Newspapers. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  22. ^ "Mickela: 'This is just the beginning'". Trinidad Express Newspapers. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  23. ^ ELECTIONS AND BOUNDARIES COMMISSION. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS 2025. DETAILED PRELIMINARY RESULTS Archived 2 May 2025 at the Wayback Machine
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