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The PPP’s parliamentary list is a testimony to diversity

Aug 22, 2020 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I think the PPP parliamentary list of 33 names have some positives going for it. It also incorporates a couple of other elements, on which I also would touch upon to share the way I see them.
First, the list is expressive in its blend of old and new. My hope is that the old does not continue in the ways that were not constructive for this society, that the new do not get too wise too early in too much errancy, whether schooled by the veterans, or as developed from their own native cunning. If this is going to be really about the new and the fresh and clean and transparent, then let it be just those ingredients prevailing and overpowering.
Second, the list is a testimony to diversity, and I doff my Top Hat to the PPP for an expansive and inclusive group of citizens, men and women, urban and rural, and reflective of our demographic sprawl to a commendable extent. In terms of a colour scheme, it is a kaleidoscope reflective of Guyana. Now those named must perform, they must deliver and confirm that they have what it takes in addressing the many hard challenges ahead for this troubled society.
Third, I cannot help but noticing that there is nary a whimper from the party’s longstanding and long serving veterans – those who literally grew up and cut their eye teeth in the party’s workings – who have been left off the list. It tells me about the ironclad nature of the dominance and control that is at work, and which is the norm, within the party’s sanctums at PPP leadership levels. As I compare that to the hullabaloo and raucousness in the camp of its PNC adversary, I see-and so does the rest of Guyana – the undisciplined and uncontrolled nature of those lovelies on the other side. In the bluntest terms, there are no mavericks within the PPP, no adventurers, no experimenters; it is a real situation of one for all and all for one, with a cult leader waving a wand that reduces all the others, including those with ideas, to swooning and abject subservience.
And now, rather disturbingly, I must go down a different road and venture into the dark side of Guyanese politics. What are some of the people on that list doing in our National Assembly? How could they ever be considered by any clear-headed, clean thinking, ethically inclined leader or leadership trust for membership in the exclusive national club that is parliament? Or to state differently, and more brutally frankly, what could enter the mind of those responsible for considering and then agreeing on the final decisions as to who is on the inside, and then deposit them in the hallowed (still) halls of the people’s house? That is, we cannot have, and the PPP should not want to foist, those who have had close encounters of a specially troubling kind with the law, as part of Guyana’s house that is dedicated to lawmaking.
My position is clear and always remains in the same unmoving place. It is that when the faithful, the industrious, and the proven must be rewarded then find something else for them. Do not put some of them in parliament to make laws for us. The rest of Guyana may not care, but I do not wish for the suspect to make laws for me. Find something else in some other place for them, with more money, more perks, more of the usual riches associated with local public service and political ascendancy in this country. Just do not put them in the Big House of Legislature.
I think that this is insulting to the nation, and none more so than supporters, who are looking for the different and (let me see) the positive and the progressive. Those faithful are expecting much, a brave new world. Me, I am not expecting anything at all. All my expectations for this country, especially as such relates to political people, have been scorched into non recognition. Smithereens, it is.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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