Jagdeo convinced me to vote in 2020

Apr 04, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor
I did not vote in the 2015 elections but after observing what has happened in Guyana after President David Granger came to power and the fight back being carried out by former President Bharat Jagdeo, I know I must vote in 2020. What Mr. Jagdeo reminded us in a visit to our village over the Easter weekend is that his party PPP never ran away from a political fight and never will. I left that meeting so excited.
This is the only country I am from; I cannot go to any country and call it home. Right now Donald Trump is telling my relatives in the USA that they do not belong there and can be deported. I cannot go to India because they will treat me as a second-class citizen because I do not know the Hindi language. I cannot go to Africa; they will reject me like Idi Amin and Robert Mugabe, because I do not look like them. Guyana is the only country that no one can deport me from; Guyana is home.
I say to them in the Granger regime, you cannot chase me out from Guyana because I am ready to stand and fight for my political right, so do not even try. To all Guyanese, the ultimate fight is between the PNC and the PPP; do not get distracted by all the small third parties, they are up to no good.
I know the PPP for 23 years and yes I got tired of Donald Ramotar and his incompetence and that is why I did not vote in 2015. But after three years of the PNC government run by Mr. Granger, I can say I had a chance to know both sides. I know the tactics from both teams; I understand the mechanics of their respective governments and I am now convinced if I have to choose between the PPP and the PNC, I have no choice but to choose the PPP if this country is to survive.
Over the last three years, all I am hearing from this PNC government is slogans. But slogans do not feed our families. They said that they want the state media to be run independently as a taxpayer-owned organization but today they have made the state media into another PNC outfit, nothing else. This is the same old PNC all over again that my parents told me about in the Burnham days.
But I say to the PNC, as you continue to mismanage the country, the interest of the people will triumph. The people will triumph over your evil and deceit. If we allow this kind of stupidity to ruin this country, as practiced by the members of the Granger Club, then it is shame on us because we are allowing the country to perish.
I say it is our duty not to allow this country to perish because of the actions of the wicked PNC leaders and the opportunists in the AFC and WPA like Ramjattan and Roopnaraine. My last word of exaltation is that we have so much at stake today. We have gone so far even to the point of starting the plans for the hydropower plant under Mr. Jagdeo which would have secured the country, only to see Mr. Granger and Mr. Ramotar destroy it all.
I say the time is now to rally around Mr. Bharat Jagdeo and keep these other evil forces out like the Ramotars and the Grangers.
We have to make a choice today; it is time to sweep out the old, like the Ramotars and Grangers who have led the nation to ruination. It is time for the younger people like the Jagdeos and James Bonds to take the nation to prosperity.
Surujdai Lilmohan

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