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Aubrey Norton and Ralph Ramkarran: A comparison

Jul 30, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

 

Make no mistake; what happened with the voting system at the PNC’s congress on Sunday occurred at the last PPP congress at Port Mourant. What did not happen in Port Mourant was that the Sharma Solomons and Aubrey Nortons do not exist in the PPP, so there were no confrontations, claims, cries and denunciations.
This columnist was told by someone strategically placed at the PPP congress that ten Chinese persons voted. In fact there were more votes cast than registered delegates. The last PPP congress followed the pattern established by Cheddi Jagan hundreds of moons ago – the votes are fixed to obtain a certain outcome.
When Cheddi wanted an African to get into the hierarchy to show that the PPP was multi-racial, he shuffled the votes as if it were a pack of cards.
When the African slow-talker arrived into Cheddi’s arms in the eighties, Cheddi was ecstatic. By that time the PPP had no big African name with a respected job in its leadership. The problem for Cheddi was that the slow-talker couldn’t pull enough votes to get him to the top of the pyramid.
What Cheddi did at each congress was to manipulate the votes to get his African guy a seat in the executive. It was the identical thing he did against Balram Singh Rai to facilitate Brindley Benn. As with the slow-talking doctor, the object was to get a big African name in the leadership.
For an account of Jagan’s deceitful role in that affair see, Baytoram Ramharack’s, “Against the Grain: Balram Singh Rai and the politics of Guyana,” Chakra Publishing House, Trinidad, 2005.
Today the PNC faces mounting embarrassment over the voting incidents at its congress, because of public castigations by Aubrey Norton, Sharma Solomon and Carl Greenidge. But you don’t hear such voices after the PPP’s congresses are over, because the PPP doesn’t have a Norton or a Solomon.
Ralph Ramkarran is the largest proof of the difference in the nature of the PPP and the post-Burnham PNC.
Ralph Ramkarran left the PPP after something unsavoury happened at an executive meeting. To date, the Guyanese people do not know what made Ramkarran so angry that he quit an organization he spent about forty-five years serving. There are all kinds of speculation, but Ramkarran’s lips have been sealed with the world’s strongest bonding chemical.
Mr. Ramkarran has a weekly commentary that appears in the Sunday Stabroek. He writes about everything on Planet Earth, including the Luis Suárez bite, but not a word on what bit him at that meeting. One person told me that the Canadian citizen in the PPP leadership told Mr. Ramkarran that he was behaving as if “goat bite he”, to which Mr. Ramkarran objected and walked out.
Here is the difference with the PNC. Its leaders are less authoritarian and less prone to groupthink. Dr. Faith Harding spoke out publicly at what happened to her inside the PNC. There is no way an Aubrey Norton would have exited the PNC after being insulted at a meeting and not explain what occurred to the public. This is the essential difference between the PNC and PPP.
The PPP is gloating over the Sunday afternoon showdown at Congress Place. It will not stop. It will now be a whipping boy for the PPP. The Chronicle and NCN will milk it until the 2016 elections. A certain columnist at Guyana Times will write about it non-stop. This columnist can’t be that stupid to think that we don’t know who he is.
I know and I normally tell everybody I meet who he is. Call me and ask me if you don’t know and I will tell you. I will give you two clues. He is an Indian supremacist and a close friend of the fake pollster. The PPP countryside bottom-house meetings will paint the PNC with an evil brush. The country folks will be told that the PNC cannot hold clean elections even in its own home.
What the Guyanese people need to understand is that the nation knows what happened at the PNC congress last Sunday, because brave leaders inside the PNC spoke out. They wanted the Guyanese people to see the faults of the PNC so that there can be a better PNC in the future.
The PPP is no different from the PNC, but there have been no brave PPP leaders since Nagamootoo and Ramjattan left. The same voting deficiencies go on at PPP congresses, but the victims stay silent. Did you ever hear any GAWU union leader criticize the PPP?

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