Opposition leader Michael Baptiste says the major differences within the Grenada United Labor Party have been resolved.

He said in a radio interview here Monday that the party is getting ready to hold its convention on February 2nd.

The convention was first tentative set for this month.

Baptiste was at the center of the confusion for the control of the party in 2002 -- an episode he now calls his "darkest moments."

Looking back at the year, Baptiste said in an interview on the Grenada Broadcasting Network "my darkest moment last year was the infighting within the GULP and our inability to consolidate our support and get the party on an election footing."

"There were a few legal wranglings, some of which I was a part of, and this did not help," he said.

Baptiste was not quizzed on how he sees himself in the new GULP set-up, but party sources say he has given up his leadership ambitions to make way for career civil servant Gloria Payne-Banfield to lead the party.

Payne-Banfield is seen within GULP circles as a more nationally appealing candidate.

But Baptiste was upbeat about the revival of the party.

"GULP must play a major role in the upcoming elections. It would have to be the party that would make the difference in the elections," he said.

When it was pointed out that GULP was reduced to a marginal organization with its mauling at the polls in 1999, Baptiste who was then part of the NNP campaign, said the times are fundamentally different.

He accused Prime Minister Keith Mitchell of forsaking the labor supporters who gave him his support in 1999.

"He has turned his back on the poor people and he has become an enemy of the poor and the working class," he quipped

"Their trust has been betrayed and (the Prime Minister) has turned out to be a national brambler," Baptiste said.

The opposition leader also raised questions about Dr. Mitchell's claim that nobody received money to vote for his party in the last general election.

Noting that he was an insider at the time, Baptiste declared" "I want to issue a friendly advice to the PM (to be) a good catholic and say that I would not do it again and let sleeping dogs lie."

Press if he felt what happened in 1999 were effective bribes, Baptiste quipped: "I don't think any bribe would help (the next) time."