The party congress has spoken

Aug 06, 2008 Features / Columnists

In the days and weeks before the 29th Congress of the party, the People’s Progressive Party, there was a lot of criticisms of the government and these criticisms ranged from the government at its electorship to the party in term of government actions and policies.

There were the people who seemed to know more about the party than even the party members themselves and there were those who knew more about the direction the party should take than even the members of the Central Committee.

Certain professional bashers of the President and the PPP including Freddie Kissoon knew that there were people in the party who were chasing a dream and who were politically dead. On occasions he singled out Moses Nagamootoo whom he said made a terrible mistake by remaining a member of the party.

Imagine Mr. Kissoon came to the conclusion that the party had no place for people like Moses Nagamootoo. After that public assault, he turned his pen to President Bharrat Jagdeo as he often does when he feels that he must write something.

This time around he said that President Jagdeo had alienated himself from the party; that he was doing things in opposition to the party and that he was hated by the party hierarchy.

Kissoon actually predicted that the party would reject President Jagdeo to show him that the party was not behind him.

As a self-proclaimed analyst, Kissoon should have familiarized himself with the principle of separation of powers.

Had he studied the history of the party he would have known that party paramountcy was anathema to the PPP and that although the government came out of the party they both had their roles to play.

The recent elections have placed Kissoon into the world of pseudo analysts to which he belongs. The votes at the PPP Congress have signaled the dictates of the party.

It is not surprising that the President got the largest bloc of votes, as many as one hundred more than the next person who happened to be a former President and a founder of the party.

It sent a clear message that the party approved of what President Jagdeo has been doing and continues to do.

But even more interesting is the fact that there was reportedly a motion that President Jagdeo be allowed to govern the country for a third term although the Constitution of Guyana prescribes that no president will serve for more than two terms.

This is testimony to the fact that the party is satisfied with the person it selected as a candidate for the President and the man whom it thought was the best person to lead the country when President Janet Jagan demitted office. It will be interesting to see what the commentator says about this.

Then there is Mr. Nagamootoo. Kissoon proclaimed that when Moses Nagamootoo placed his support behind President Jagdeo and the party he did himself a great injustice and signed his political death warrant.

He was critical of the fact that Nagamootoo invited members of the party’s hierarchy to his birthday party.

One article spoke of Moses being akin to the biblical Moses who parted the Red Sea and who failed to see the Promised Land.

Lo and behold, the voters at the Congress accepted Nagamootoo back into the leadership.

The PPP is a party that cherishes unity and efforts of the commentators will fail just as their empty theories and analysis. Speculations will be rife again about 2011, still a long time away.

What has become clear, in the wake of the party congress, is that there are people who are bent on criticizing the party merely for the sake of criticism.

These are the people who are hostile to the government for every reason—the people some would refer to as members of another opposition.

Regardless of how often events prove them wrong, they would persist with their criticisms for their shallow ends and at no time would they ever pen a column to admit their wrongs. These are the people who are only out to blame the government.

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