Who is right, Jagdeo or Ramjattan?

Mar 15, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor
So Babu Jaan has come and gone and that pesky “cuss bird” who calls himself doctor to the “filth” power, is at it again. This person really has a talent – a world-class inability to tell the truth. What we saw at Babu Jaan was political desire nixing memory. The political desire is that the PPP leaders want to win even though they failed at elementary governance over the last decade. Even if these political Rasputins have to raid the tombs of Joseph Goebbels to dispense their vials of untruths to the transported audience, so what – Freedom House claimed they transported them from all over Guyana, clothed them for the day, fed them for the day and more than adequately financially compensated them; so they better had listen to the propaganda.  But the rest of the nation does not have to accept this “gobble gook” from people who have built mansions less than five miles from Pigeon Island where East Indian families from the sugar belt have to live in even worst conditions than under the PNC days.
But today I want to fact check one blatant untruth dispensed at Babu Jaan.  Mr. Jagdeo was caught saying that out of “naivety or desperation on the part of the AFC, they had to link up with APNU”.
There is a biblical quote in Luke 9:50 that says “But Jesus said to him, do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you”.
In 2011, when Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan approached the PPP with suggestion that the parliamentary parties should work more closely in the tripartite committee in ironing out the national developmental challenges, it was the PPP who dulled his enthusiasm and did everything to reject his ambition to work in an environment of greater national unity. Even Mr. David Granger worked hard for all of 2012 to build a stronger relationship with the PPP.  The message from the PPP was always the same –total rejection of the majority opposition.
So why is Jagdeo fretting today with this attitude of total desperation?  His party chased away the majority opposition and set the foundation for the APNU and AFC to work together in rebuilding Guyana.
I know most politicians around the world are usually hungry for positions rather than service to the common man, but there are a few men from every country who stand out – Mandela in South Africa, Gandhi in India and we have our very own Ramjattan in Guyana. Mr. Ramjattan has always walked the Cheddi Jagan road of putting the business of the people first before personal benefits.  We cannot say the same for Mr. Jagdeo; after all, it is the mansion and the pension that cost them the election in 2011.
So why is this political “peditum” trying to lecture the AFC?
It was not an easy decision for the custodian of principled politics in Guyana, Mr. Ramjattan. The choice was clear before Valentine’s Day, five more years of the PPP’s thievery or sit with people from all political persuasion in a rainbow coalition and work together, since “betta must come”. Any schoolboy will tell you, when faced with such a choice, no one will want more of the PPP thievery.  It is only an ideological racist who cannot understand the Ramjattan way.
To change Guyana, the AFC needs to be at a vantage point of being able to influence change.  When they reached out to the PPP in 2011, their olive branches were knocked away.  When they reached out to the APNU, they were warmly embraced.  If there is anyone who carried the battle against the APNU, it was me, but today it warms my heart to be listening to James Bond from the APNU and Mark Ross from the AFC on Berbice TV chanting a common message – unity, peace, people empowerment and respect for the rule of law.  The AFC’s decision was just!
It is the PPP that wants to keep Guyana divided and the people of Berbice will have to decide – will they allow five more years of PPP’s policy of divide and rule or five new years of different peoples working together for one nation with one destiny under this Broad Based Alliance.
Sase Singh

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