Tribal desperadoes at the gate

May 03, 2015 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

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If God was to ask me to name something I would like to have, I would choose something I would like to see rather than have. I would like to see the faces of Indian supremacists after the PPP loses the 2015 elections.
These are people whose souls are taken up with the obsession that Guyana must be in control of the PPP because African leaders are not preferred. I want to see what their faces would look like after GECOM would have announced the winner is APNU-AFC.
For these people, a man who was once president of Guyana does not exist. He cannot exist for them because if they acknowledge his historical role then their supremacist world would come crashing down. It was Desmond Hoyte that allowed private businessmen to start a newspaper. He put Rabbi Washington and his own Cabinet Minister, Robert Corbin before the courts. He interdicted from duty the head of the army, Godwin McPherson, on the complaint of a private citizen, Mr. Glenn Lall.
Mr. Hoyte sold off state-owned enterprises, removed the ban on certain cherished food items, opened up the economy to Indian investors, accepted Jimmy Carter’s supervision of the 1992 elections, and gracefully gave up power.
The selected memory of these Indian supremacists also locks out an important section of Guyana’s history. David Hinds, Tacuma Ogunseye, Eusi Kwayana, Walter Rodney, Andaiye, Omawale, etc., are names that never existed. As in the case of Hoyte, the existence of these historical names has to be denied because if acknowledged, then the propaganda of the Indian supremacists will be blown away.
It was the PNC leader, Hoyte that democratized Guyana. It was African Guyanese like Rodney who paid with his life fighting an African-dominated government. Hinds and Ogunseye went to jail for opposing that very government. The Indian supremacists cannot bear to see such names printed in the history books because when that happens, the Indian supremacists no longer have a methodology which they can loan to the PPP to keep the PPP in power.
If you acknowledge that an African-Guyanese activist risked his life to confront an African-dominated administration then by the same dialectical reasoning, an Indian activist is legitimized in denouncing an Indian regime that is a legal dictatorship. So what do the Indian supremacists do? They deny the existence of Rodney, Hoyte, Ogunseye and Hinds, because it allows them to scandalize APNU politicians and Indian activists who denounce the PPP.
It allows them to do so by asserting that such activists are against the PPP because the PPP is an Indian party. There is not one word that APNU, AFC and Indian critics denounce the reign of the PPP because the PPP is an undemocratic, corrupt, immoral regime.
The chief proponent of this methodology seems to be a man named, Aksharananda, who calls himself a swami. All of a sudden he appears from nowhere and has been writing frequent letters in the media generating fear about the PNC getting back into power and criticizing anti-PPP activists for being anti-Indian. According to the so-called swami, the custodian of the world of Indian Guyanese is the PPP. If you fight against the PPP, you are out to dethrone Indians.
The so-called swami has joined a long list of Indian Guyanese who have suddenly undergone an attitudinal metamorphosis and have embraced the election bandwagon of the PPP. Ronald Bulkan of APNU has written a letter in the KN and SN naming a few of them and expressed surprised at their sudden transformation.
Bulkan named Shaun Samaroo, Ralph Seeram, Asgar Ally, Leon Suseran and Peter Ramsaroop. Bulkan left out Ryhaan Shah, Dolly Hassan, the so-called swami, Jagdeo’s former common-law wife, Varshnie Singh and now P. D. Sharma, who is an admirer of Eusi Kwayana.  Bulkan asked why? The answer is the tribe is trying to save its domination.
On Thursday night, Raymond Hall of the AFC and I were driving to a coalition public meeting. Inside the car was the wife of one of the most prominent opposition leaders. She asked me how I see Steve Surujbally shaping up. Obviously the question was asked in the context of the unexpected rush of these morphed Indians to the PPP’s campaign. I gave my frank assessment.
I have never been a fan of Steve Surujbally in his capacity of Chairman of GECOM. I wrote in two columns that after 2011 he should have been removed. His recent vote with the PPP Commissioners to deny letters of employment to polling agents is dangerously worrying.  So which way will Surujbally go? I don’t know, but I know he is Indian. I know too that the tribal desperados are at the gate.

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