R.I.P. to the Marxist/Leninist PPP

Jun 09, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
After the bizarre episode which saw the PPP’s General Secretary Donald Ramotar manoeuvred into the position of Presidential Candidate of the party for the coming General Elections, neither the Candidate nor his party can seem to make an impression on the country or the Guyanese Diaspora.
The move has spectacularly backfired on the entire party and its overseas support groups.
Let’s examine the development in its entirety:
a) The decline started with the Jagdeo-led PPP deviating from the Jagans’ bequeathed Marxist/Leninist groundings including at the level of its Trade Union/industrial arm, the GAWU.
Today the PPP Group Chairmen are disaffected with the Ramotar Candidature and are yearning for a Moses (Nagamootoo) return and a rebirth of its working class underpinnings.
They are quiet and watching political developments to decide whether to shake the tree for a new party (AFC) or to maintain the prevailing decadence of the current headlong drive to complete self-destruction.
The panacea from PPP diehards is that they have enough money in the campaign coffers to sell Ramotar in every village, and that kind of campaign will cause Guyanese to buy into Ramotar.
b) This reaction has begun to manifest itself in the loss of control of the PPP both in the US and in Canada.
c) Gone are the opportunities that the PPP had at its disposal to choose Ralph Ramkarran as a middle-of-the-road choice who would have galvanised middle/upper class support for his candidature and breathing space for the party from its dash to sure defeat in the coming Elections. Nagamootoo also would have been a popular rank and file candidate because he remains even now very popular and likeable across the ethnic divide.
Enter the AFC and its Liberal Democratic Agenda to transform the country from the last coach of a donkey cart economy to the New Singapore of the Caribbean with vast access to the pool of Guyanese talent ready to take the country by the boot strap and transform it into a viable productive economy befitting its industrious peoples.
And evidenced by the lack of enthusiasm for the PNC-led so-called coalition, my experience tells me that this election will surprise a lot of Guyanese by its outcome. Donald Ramotar will not win a plurality of votes. David Granger has made so many mistakes already – on top of starting from the extreme negatives of the PNC, to want to divest sugar was the end of his outside chances at maintaining the Corbin level of support for the PNC.
Which leaves the Guyanese voter (outside of the dwindling race-inclined party faithful) with only one genuine choice … Ramjattan and the proven AFC.
The AFC has proven beyond a doubt that they are ready to take the mantle of government and transform Guyana into an English-speaking metropolis of the Caribbean Basin. What safer and decent hands can Guyana get than a Liberal Democratic Khemraj Ramjattan to head the revival?
He, along with his team, has long been prepared and ready for the call by the Guyanese electorate.
Lionel Peters

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