Propaganda will take centre stage at the PPP Congress

Jul 30, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
Within a few days, the PPP will begin its long overdue party Congress which will focus on the observance of the 63rd anniversary of the party and its founding leader, Cheddi Jagan. This will take place in the midst of political turbulence and gridlock in Parliament that signaled the end of cooperation between the majority opposition parties and the minority PPP government.
Instead of ending the gridlock, members of the cabal went on every TV station in Guyana to criticize the actions of the opposition. They staged a picket exercise outside Parliament Building against the opposition parties with about 65 persons whom they paid. It is the first time we have heard of a government picketing the opposition. Normally, it would be the opposition that organizes protests/picket against governments. But his type of behaviour by the PPP is normal.
Naturally, with the use of propaganda and distortions, the party leadership will use the occasion to highlight their achievements; support their claim as being better managers of the economy; and favourably interpret their contribution to the unfolding of the epochal events in national development over the past two decades.
Among other things, they will extol their leader for rescuing Guyana from the PNC in 1992. But with corruption and crime spreading like wildfire, many members and delegates do not support the inept way the party is running the country. They are well aware that their leaders are not doing enough to reduce or end corruption and crimes, create jobs, and improve the lives of those in need. Some are even upset with the way the economic barons have forced Ralph Ramkarran out of the party.
Ironically, as is the tradition of the PPP at its Congress, speaker after speaker will be handed a script praising Cheddi Jagan as the indisputable architect of our nation, who gave political leadership to the events of the ‘50s and ‘60s as part of a regional revolt against the inequities of the plantation system, the yoke of colonial oppression and the struggle for Universal Adult Suffrage, which gave every adult Guyanese the right to vote for the first time.
At the same time, they will ignore all of the achievements of Forbes Burnham as a founding member of the PPP and who stood with Jagan to oppose colonialism and all the hindrances associated with it. Even after being in power for the past 21 years, the PPP continues to blame the Burnham regime for the problems facing Guyanese today, including the power outages, lack of potable water, the failing sugar industry, the collapse of UG and the poor health and educational services, among others.
One can recall that it was only a few months ago when this party had the gall to say that most of the corrupt practices that are taking place today are done by those PNC members who are still working for the government. In short, the PPP diehards believe that they have done nothing wrong during the last two decades in power. This is a clear case of over-fatigue and mental meltdown of the cabal.
It is predictable that they will attack their former comrades – Moses Nagamootoo, Khemraj Ramjattan and Ralph Ramkarran – who left the PPP because its leaders refuse to deal with the scourge of corruption, illegal drugs etc. But we are left to speculate why they would ruin the sugar industry that thousands of their supporters depend on for a living and why they have abandoned the poor and the working class—the group Cheddi Jagan fought for all his life.
We know that the PPP leaders will not accurately and honestly discuss their achievements at the Congress during the last 21 years—a period in which they failed to transform the country’s economy, improve the lives of the needy, end corruption, and reduce crime and drug trafficking. We also know that they will cuss-down the independent media – Kaieteur News and Stabroek News, the opposition, and all those who have exposed and criticized their crooked and inept policies.
Last but not least, we know that they will not discuss Jagdeo’s autocratic leadership style on the party—a style which ended democracy in the party; they will ignore wrongdoing, cuss-down opponents, all of which caused the likes of Khemraj Ramjattan, Moses Nagamootoo, Ralph Ramkarran and many others to leave the PPP. They will not discuss the marginalization of one ethnic group or how the party has been hijacked by the oligarchy.
This is the type of propaganda, distortion and untruths that will take centre stage at the Congress.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh

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