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Jagan’s legacy being misused by the Opposition- Rohee
General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee, said yesterday that his party has noted a tendency by several opposition Members of Parliament (MP’s) to invoke the name of the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan in what he said was an attempt to project the PPP/C administration as “anti-working class”.
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Clement Rohee
Rohee said it was hypocritical of the opposition parties. More particularly, he said, was A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) which sought to invoke the name of Dr. Jagan in their budget speeches.
“They did everything imaginable to besmirch his character and deny him and his party the right to political office through a series of rigged elections spanning nearly three decades” Rohee said.
Rohee went further when he said, “It was the PNC [Peoples National Congress] that schemed with foreign vested interests and local reactionary forces to destabilize the democratically elected Jagan-led administration during the 1960s.”
“The opposition parties ought to be ashamed of themselves to invoke the name and memory of the late Dr. Jagan when they are doing everything within their power to undo the work of Dr. Jagan and the Party he founded, the PPP,” said Rohee.
According to Rohee this could be seen in the several actions taken by the combined opposition to “frustrate the development agenda of the PPP/C administration aimed at enhancing the quality of life of the Guyanese people in particular the working people for whom Dr. Jagan dedicated his entire political life.”
He said that the refusal of the Parliamentary Opposition parties to approve money for “cheap energy for the people of Guyana and to fuel the growth trajectory of the economy goes against the grain of the Jagan dream for Guyana. The same is true of opposition cuts to funds earmarked for Amerindian development which he was very passionate about.”
According to Rohee the failure of the opposition parties to approve funds to restore the viability of the sugar industry would have been painful to Dr. Jagan who “way back in the 1940’s following the massacre of the five sugar workers, pledged to dedicate his entire life to the cause of the working people.”
Rohee said that those who say that the PPP has departed from the Jagan legacy are “either unable to understand the context and dialectics of present day realities or are being deliberately dishonest politically and intellectually.”
The party then said that the opposition parties and other opposition elements should “desist from invoking the name of Dr. Jagan for opportunistic purposes and instead, lend their support in tangible ways to realize his vision for a peaceful, progressive and prosperous Guyana.”
However, Rohee was reminded that Dr. Jagan’s daughter, Nadira Jagan-Brancier, had made blistering statements at Port Mourant about the party and these comments were printed.
The remarks which were very scathing about the party spoke to the same thing about her father’s ideals. The observation was, “So when you criticize the opposition for making a mess of the Jagan’s ideals, Dr. Jagan’s own children are accusing the party of making a mess of Dr. Jagans own ideals.”
Rohee responded, “Nothing is wrong with that; we could choose as a political party who we want to answer, politically. If we choose not to answer Mrs. Nadira Jagan-Brancier, that’s our right.”
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