Shaitaan you are aware that Nagamootoo made that statement in India, not on some campaign in Linden or Ruimveldt. I very much doubt his audience was Afro Guyanese.
I suspect that his point was to tell the GOPIO types that even though he acknowledges being of Indian descent his primary allegiances are to Guyana.
There are those who dream of some pan Indian civilization. Even though they put NRIs in a higher category as being more "authentic" Indians, they have some subordinate role which they want you inferior PIO types to play. Especially you Caribbean Indians who are so "lost" that you speak some patois that you got from black people and not one of the "fine" languages of India.
I have a feeling that Nagamootoo was telling them that he isn't part of their scheme.