By RAVI BALGOBIN MAHARAJ In 2007, Devant Maharaj con­tested the Couva South constituency under the political umbrella of the COP and was compre­hensively beaten by the late great Kelvin Ramnath. The reason that Devant would later give for his associa­tion with the COP was that “(his) support was based on a funda­mental dissatisfaction with the…