PPP stalwart Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud dies

Apr 08, 2013 News

People Progressive Party Stalwart, Former Government Minister and Presidential Advisor Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud has passed away. Persaud who was 77, died at the Georgetown Hospital’s Caribbean Heart Institute yesterday morning.
According to reports Persaud was undergoing treatment, since had fallen ill early Saturday. Kaieteur News was told that he was taken to the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital but later transferred to the GPHC for further tests and assessment at the Caribbean Heart Institute.
Persaud was one of the longest serving politicians in Guyana. He served as Agriculture Minister, then Minister of Parliamentary Affairs under the Peoples Progressive Party Government and was a Member of Parliament for some 41 years.
Only last year Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman had paid homage to Persaud. He was celebrated and honored by the Full House for his service as a Member of the Parliament of Guyana.
APNU Member of Parliament and Historian Dr. Rupert Roopnarine said then that Persaud will always be remembered as a diligent and committed politician and religious leader who loved his country.
Reepu Daman Persaud formed the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha and worked over the years as a politician, patriot and religious leader according to close friends.

Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud

In 1996, Persaud received Guyana’s second highest National Award, The Order of Roraima.
He would later form a Foundation in his name as part of an education drive.
Only last week the PPP/C lost another long serving member. Reverend Dr. Dale Bisnauth, a former Minister of Education and Labour, Human Services and Social Security, succumbed from a heart ailment. At the time, the 76-year old was a patient at the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI), having been admitted there mere hours before.

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