He's now the most talked about politician in the country.

Peter Charles David is loved by members of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and hated by the hierarchy of the governing New National Party (NNP) government.

The 48-year old Barrister-at-law who holds the key post of General Secretary of the congress party is largely responsible for the turn-around in fortunes of the party which failed to win a single seat in the 1999 general elections.

In November 2003, David was able to help the NDC win seven seats and leave the Keith Mitchell-led NNP hanging onto office by the slimmest of margin - one seat which was won controversially by six votes on the sister isle of Carriacou.

David has also taken the attack to Prime Minister Mitchell inside Parliament and is now being singled out for "special treatment" by the NNP, which is seeking to regain its stranglehold on the country.

The NDC General Secretary survived an attack from the NNP on allegations that he was engaged in wrongdoing in the United States in the real estate business.

He is facing another orchestrated challenge from government quarters on the legality of his status in Parliament.

The allegation is that David is a Canadian citizen and barred from taking part in general elections in the country.

The Congress party has decided to rally behind their General Secretary and Member of Parliament and used last Sunday's General Council session as a show of support for their "popular member".

Hundreds took part in a motorcade from the Westerhall Secondary School venue of the council meeting, passing through most areas of the town of St. George Constituency and onto the Carenage to hold a massive public meeting in support of their parliamentarians.

Many observers describe it as the largest political meeting to take place in the country in recent times outside of direct campaigning for general elections.

The NDC'ites staged a dramatic presentation by calling on a senior citizen of the constituency and party loyalist, Angela Cape to deliver the "keys" to the town of St. George to David and urged him "to lock it" tight.

David did not disappoint party supporters when he took the stage to deliver a blistering attack on Mitchell's NNP.

He accused the regime of deliberately attacking him as a means of trying to divert the public's attention from the real issues facing the country.

He blasted the government for its mismanagement of the economy and made mention of the multi-million dollar DIPCON judgment in court, the Briefcase bribery matter and the Mt. Hartman scandal on the failed Ritz Carlton hotel project.

And David warned Prime Minister Mitchell that he and members of his family run the risk of being prosecuted in court on the collapsed Call Centre business venture in St. Andrew's.

The opposition Member of Parliament called on the Grenadian leader to get his family to pay back their share of the EC$9 million that was guaranteed by the NNP government to them and other private shareholders involved in the company.

He accused the family members of the Prime Minister of benefiting from the Call Centre deal at the expense of taxpayers.

David made it clear that a government formed by the NDC would take steps to prosecute in the law courts those who committed financial wrongdoings with the Call Centre project.

Two days after his blistering attack on the NNP regime, another pamphlet surfaced in the country attacking David of another set of wrongdoing.