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Jagdeo says that he ordered Dr Luncheon to sack Bissessar
Former Personal Assistant to the President, Rajindra Nauth Bissesar, who recently forged a union with the Alliance for Change (AFC) was not spared the brunt of a verbal assault during the Lusignan rally on Sunday.
The President said, “I told (Dr Roger) Luncheon to get rid of him,” as he chastised Bissesar who recently came out on the AFC platform along with former People’s National Congress Reform stalwart Dr Richard Van West Charles.
Jagdeo in his continued assault on the media diverted to say that Bissesar, whom he threw out of the party, was placed in media reports as a presidential advisor. “He was advising me on collecting garbage in the flood time.”
“Bissesar” Jagdeo bawled, “I didn’t even know when he was in my office. And he is my advisor gone to AFC.”
Rajindra Nauth Bissesar and AFC Prime Ministerial Candidate Raphael Trotman
Jagdeo said that Bissesar was a junior member of the party and he was thrown out of the party. “I told Luncheon to fire this guy years ago.”
He attended at the University of Guyana in 1976, and became the head of the PYO and was the presidential candidate for the PPP at the student elections.
Despite reported rigging, Bissesar was able to win six of the nine seats and was said to be later beaten with sticks carried by persons suspected to belong to the then controversial House of Israel.
He was a Central Committee member of the PYO and formally joined the PPP in 1980 where he became a candidate member of the PPP Central Committee in 1990.
He was said to be integrally involved with the strikes by bauxite and sugar-workers in 1989. After the PPP resumed office in 1992, he worked as an advisor to the Minister of Human Services, then to the Minister of Labour and then served as a personal assistant to the President. He also served on the Bermine Board, on the National Parks Commission and the Guyana Tourism Authority.
He was a writer for the PPP, and wrote a weekly column in Kaieteur News on economic and political issues.
Since the second term of Bharrat Jagdeo, he became critical of the PPP Government and eventually ventured out publicly on Spotlight and on the AFC programme.
He criticised the corruption, and the moving away from working class interests as the government policy resulted in the rich becoming richer and the poor poorer.
Bissesar is said to have opposed the confrontational attitude of the PPP Government and saw that it was not conducive to national unity and was in fact extremely divisive.
His public criticisms included writing to the press attacking the lack of internal democracy in the PPP and the marginalisation of Moses Nagamootoo.
When he was introduced as an AFC affiliate he was described as one that has “become a part of the many disillusioned, disenchanted and totally sidelined members of the PPP.”
Turning his attention to Dr Van-West Charles, Jagdeo said, “The other one is Van -West Charles…Van-West Charles couldn’t save his father-in-law (Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham) when he was Minister of Health, how could he offer anything to you.”
“What has he got to offer today.”
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