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Bharrat Jagdeo should stop taking the public for fools

Mar 31, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Bharrat Jagdeo has emerged from his hibernation and is now ‘talking-up.’ In September 2012, in Jeju, South Korea, he told Stabroek News’ reporter Johann Earle that on his return home he would hold a press conference to address, among other things, his acquisition of two properties. Well, he waited some two and a half years to so do and now repulsively sought to make a favourable comparison with his wealth accumulation and the PPP’s founder, the late Dr. Jagan!
Following condign and justifiable condemnation by former PPP executive member Ralph Ramkarran over his odious and self-serving comparison, Jagdeo has taken the offensive and accuses Ramkarran of “deliberately distorting” his comments adding that Ramkarran “pathologically hates (him).”
In seeking to do damage control for his comments Bharrat Jagdeo should stop taking the public for fools. The public, including Dr. Jagan’s daughter Nadira Jagan-Brancier (who was denigrated in the Jagdeo controlled Guyana Times edition of March 18, 2015: “If you live in a glass house, don’t throw stones!”) is fully aware of Bharrat Jagdeo’s track record as an ingrate. They are aware, that as President, a job gifted to him by Mrs Jagan, that he publicly humiliated her by saying that she was but an ordinary citizen when she was critical of his administration’s policy and actions which were inimical to a free press (withdrawal of state ads to the Stabroek News). So this behaviour of Jagdeo is not new.
On the question of distortion and falsehoods, Jagdeo similarly has an unenviable track record. It was he who pretended to the nation that he was married, a “marriage” that was a sham and make believe according to Ms Varshnie Singh, his reputed wife. It was he who told Zeinab Badawi of the BBC, in response to her question as to his post-Presidential ambition, that he looks forward to a quiet life, having served his time and that he would probably get into farming.
It was he, as President, who declared that he would ensure that the Skeldon sugar factory would be fixed, even if it meant him personally getting involved! More than three years have passed since he does not have day-to-day responsibility for leading the government so it would not be unfair to ask him what efforts he has made to date to attempt to remedy this monumental disaster created by him.
Jagdeo now comes to Kitty and on March 29, 2015 declares that David Granger “lacks decency …is unrepentant …or is delusional”! [Crum-Ewing might have been killed to boost opposition campaign – Jagdeo, SN, March 30, 2015]. Quite a mouthful I would say from an individual with a sordid past. Look in the mirror, I say.
It is, however, the PPP and not Bharrat Jagdeo who are now in a quandary. Given their bare cupboard, they have once more embraced him (many though feel it is the opposite) and have him front and centre of their campaign. Unfortunately for them, however, he is proving to be a liability, hence the furious attempt at damage control. The PPP will find out, however, that the working class reveres the memory of Dr. Jagan and that they will not take kindly to ANYONE who besmirches his legacy and lifestyle. The PPP will find out, as did Victor Frankenstein that the ‘creature of life’ he sought to create would end up destroying them. It is too late for them I believe.
Ronald Bulkan

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