PPP leadership attacks Cheddi Jagan’s daughter

Mar 18, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

In a blistering, volcanic attack on the daughter of Cheddi Jagan, the PPP leadership is so far gone that it would appear that we are seeing the last fling of a dying regime.
The blitzkrieg, carried in a newspaper that many believe is co-owned by Bharrat Jagdeo, the Guyana Times, descended to the gutter in implying that her life is Canada is hard and that a part of the land where Jagan built his house was sold for two million American dollars which Nadira Jagan stands to inherit.
Here is a lengthy extract on the PPP’s confrontation with Nadira.
“Nadira Jagan-Brancier rushed to fight a straw-man of Ramkarran’s artifice. But in doing so, exposed why her parents insisted she never be part of their POLITICAL legacy. She just never took time to cultivate the analytic – much less Marxist – outlook that guided her parents.
Unsurprisingly, her judgements and opinions are always undermined by her lack of objectivity. Brancier’s obtuseness might make some question, why – if Dr Jagan was so gung ho on taking vows of poverty – did he send her brother to a Canadian rather than an Eastern Bloc University which the poor country PYO lad named Bharrat Jagdeo had to attend?
Does Brancier deny the veracity of what Jagdeo said? The house wasn’t nice? Word is that half of the Jagan’s yard with a house in Bel Air was sold for over US$2million?? When is Brancier going to cash in her half?? Things are getting hard in Canada, no? (END OF QUOTE)
All this woman said was that Bharrat Jagdeo was wrong to imply that at the height of his struggle for the working people, Cheddi Jagan lived in a well-to-do house. One can well understand the rage of the Jagan daughter. Many of us from the seventies knew Jagan’s house. I went inside of it once and it was definitely not an upper working class home or you can be liberal and say lower middle class.
Jagan’s house was not of the Charlestown working class type home, but it was conspicuously not a middle class house, even in the remotest sense of the concept of middle class. When I visited, I had accompanied Boyo Ramsaroop.
Inside Jagan’s residence was the typical confusion of papers thrown here and there and modest furniture that looked like they were hardly ever placed in their right position. I went back there the second time, again with Boyo, but didn’t go in.
Only a fool would describe Jagan’s kitchen as fancy. In fact, many lower middle class houses in the seventies had a larger, more fashionable kitchen as what one saw in Cheddi Jagan’s modest home. I personally believe that the politics of Cheddi and Janet Jagan was highly flawed and I believe that history has been too kind to them. But like the controversial Forbes Burnham, all three had immense positive characteristics.
Three of Jagan’s positive characteristics were financial incorruptibility, lack of interest in wealth, and an enduring passion for the economic elevation of the working classes of Guyana. Whatever criticism you have of Dr. Jagan, it cannot include a penchant for living big. He was essentially a modest man.
Dr. Jagan drove an old Lada car. I could vividly remember it – small and sand brown in colour. Dr. Jagan drove that vehicle until he became President in 1992. One day during his presidency, I went to State House to discuss voluntary work for the Government because I was on my one-year sabbatical at UG. I requested an anti-corruption desk at Customs and Excise.
He fully agreed. I never heard back from him, despite repeated requests. This was his essential flaw – he couldn’t work with you unless you were a PPP fanatic. I will always remember that day with Cheddi Jagan at State House. He wore rubber slippers and there were three visible holes on the right shoulder of his besmirched white T-shirt. This was the man. He had no interest in a fancy lifestyle.
One could very well understand the exasperation of Nadira Jagan when she intoned that no other PPP leader (Ramkarran is not a PPP leader anymore) came to the rescue of her father’s name. Kellawan Lall should have been the first. For years he lived inside that very house that Jagdeo commented on. Gail Teixeira, as Dr. Jagan’s private secretary in the eighties, visited there daily.
What Nadira Jagan needs to understand is that her father’s party is not the party she grew up knowing. That party has long hibernated. That party is dead and gone. The best she can do is to expose its destroyers for what they have become.

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