Jagan's "spirit" is with the AFC - Ramjattan
Written by Kwesi Isles
Sunday, 27 November 2011 00:55
Khemraj Ramjattan
Presidential candidate for the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan declared Saturday night that former PPP member Moses Nagamootoo has wrenched the “spirit” of the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan away from the ruling party as the AFC wound up its campaign ahead of Monday’s polls.
“Donald and Jagdeo wanted to invoke the ghost of Cheddi Jagan but by him coming on the platform, Nagamootoo, he has wrenched away the spirit of Jagan and brought it on this platform,” he said to a police estimated crowd of 3,000.
Ramjattan urged party supporters to stay focused over the next 48 hours since the PPP was “very good at doing mischievous things at the last minute.”
“Concentrate on the target of getting us into government on the 28th November and don’t be distracted by those confrontations. We must stay focused and I want you to understand that, because in a multiracial community like Guyana this solidarity sometimes is very fragile and with one little rumour … communities fall back into their various compartments,” he said.
Ramjattan also paid tribute to the late AFC founding member Sheila Holder who died earlier this week in the US after a period of hospitalization. According to him, if there was one reason to vote for the AFC it must be to “bring back home victory for Sheila.”
Meanwhile, party leader and prime ministerial candidate Raphael Trotman said voters have a duty to remove the PPP/C from government.
‘Every citizen of this country and every supporter of the Alliance For Change have a national, patriotic, historic, generational and sacred duty to remove the PPP from office. It’s a duty that we must carry out and it is our duty to ensure and encourage every person that you know to do as you would have done come the 28th November,” Trotman stated.
The former PPP stalwart Nagamootoo declared that the incumbent “has lost Berbice,” the county from which he hails. According to him, the PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar has been rejected by sugar workers who make up a significant segment of the workforce in Berbice.
“Use your X as a weapon of change, as others have done in the past, you have got to be defiant,” a fiery Nagamootoo exhorted.
Dr. Richard Van West Charles, formerly of the PNCR, countered the PPP/C claims that the AFC was planning to coalesce with the APNU.
“It is the PNCR which has been in bed in a destructive way with Jagdeo. When Jagdeo and (Robert) Corbin locked up in a room to develop recall legislation and recalled (James) McAllister, a young man who was fighting for people’s rights, that is the connivance of Jagdeo and Corbin,” the son-in-law of former president LFS Burnham stated.
Other speakers taking to the platform briefly included columnist and political scientist Freddie Kissoon, social activist Mark Benschop and Diaspora representative Dr. Rohan Somar.
A musical tribute to Holder, who was interred in the US on Saturday, was performed by local singer Charmaine Blackman.
Written by Kwesi Isles
Sunday, 27 November 2011 00:55
Khemraj Ramjattan
Presidential candidate for the Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan declared Saturday night that former PPP member Moses Nagamootoo has wrenched the “spirit” of the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan away from the ruling party as the AFC wound up its campaign ahead of Monday’s polls.
“Donald and Jagdeo wanted to invoke the ghost of Cheddi Jagan but by him coming on the platform, Nagamootoo, he has wrenched away the spirit of Jagan and brought it on this platform,” he said to a police estimated crowd of 3,000.
Ramjattan urged party supporters to stay focused over the next 48 hours since the PPP was “very good at doing mischievous things at the last minute.”
“Concentrate on the target of getting us into government on the 28th November and don’t be distracted by those confrontations. We must stay focused and I want you to understand that, because in a multiracial community like Guyana this solidarity sometimes is very fragile and with one little rumour … communities fall back into their various compartments,” he said.
Ramjattan also paid tribute to the late AFC founding member Sheila Holder who died earlier this week in the US after a period of hospitalization. According to him, if there was one reason to vote for the AFC it must be to “bring back home victory for Sheila.”
Meanwhile, party leader and prime ministerial candidate Raphael Trotman said voters have a duty to remove the PPP/C from government.
‘Every citizen of this country and every supporter of the Alliance For Change have a national, patriotic, historic, generational and sacred duty to remove the PPP from office. It’s a duty that we must carry out and it is our duty to ensure and encourage every person that you know to do as you would have done come the 28th November,” Trotman stated.
The former PPP stalwart Nagamootoo declared that the incumbent “has lost Berbice,” the county from which he hails. According to him, the PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar has been rejected by sugar workers who make up a significant segment of the workforce in Berbice.
“Use your X as a weapon of change, as others have done in the past, you have got to be defiant,” a fiery Nagamootoo exhorted.
Dr. Richard Van West Charles, formerly of the PNCR, countered the PPP/C claims that the AFC was planning to coalesce with the APNU.
“It is the PNCR which has been in bed in a destructive way with Jagdeo. When Jagdeo and (Robert) Corbin locked up in a room to develop recall legislation and recalled (James) McAllister, a young man who was fighting for people’s rights, that is the connivance of Jagdeo and Corbin,” the son-in-law of former president LFS Burnham stated.
Other speakers taking to the platform briefly included columnist and political scientist Freddie Kissoon, social activist Mark Benschop and Diaspora representative Dr. Rohan Somar.
A musical tribute to Holder, who was interred in the US on Saturday, was performed by local singer Charmaine Blackman.
