My Love for Amna Ally & My Loyalty to the PNCR

Mar 06, 2025 Letters

PNCR Member, Ganesh Mahipaul

DEAR EDITOR,

Amna Ally and I have recently made our political differences public, particularly as they relate to the PNCR. However, the truth is that these differences have existed for months, going into a year or more now. Despite that, let the record reflect that I love Amna Ally dearly. As a person, she is a gem, something many don’t know and never got the chance to see because of her usual bulldog approach. But having been in the party for several years now, I have come to know her well. I know she is a wonderful and loving person, though often guided by her emotions.

Amna, for her 50-plus years of service to the PNCR, held firm to a principle that she instilled in me: the party is bigger than all of us. In any democracy, respecting the choice of the membership is crucial. During my time in the party, I saw Robert Corbin chosen multiple times as leader, and the same with David Granger. Many of us who did not support either of them still worked with them because, as Amna would always say, the party comes first.

Yet today, four years after the party chose Aubrey Norton, mind you, at a time when Amna Ally herself was the General Secretary she refuses to work with him and refused from Day one of his leadership. Didn’t even give him a chance. Can this be fair? This is the root of our differences. Her recent public outbursts have now forced me to address the matter publicly as well. The party made its choice, just as it did in the past. It must be respected, as she once preached.

I recently learned that Amna’s bitterness toward Norton dates back to their younger days in the YSM—more precisely, in the 1970s, when I hadn’t even dreamed of being born. Much of what she has written in her attempts to demean me is untrue, and the few truths were spearheaded by her. Thank God it didn’t take me long to recognize her ulterior motive and step away from the cluster that was fixated on destroying Norton at all costs. This vendetta has spanned decades but has never succeeded and clearly never will.

I was told that in her younger days, Amna was a beauty, and in my mind, she still is. My dear Amna, maybe you should get on Facebook and read the comments under every post not just mine, but those from all media houses. It can’t be that so many people are wrong, and only you are right.

I will always love Amna Ally, even if she has none for me. But I cannot compromise my love for the PNCR. This party is my political home, and I will not stand by while anyone no matter how dear to me attempts to destroy it.

Be good to yourself, my dear Amna. I still love you.

Ganesh Mahipaul

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