I call on all Guyanese Indians to reject Jagdeo’s evil advocacy
Bharrat Jagdeo has thrown out of the window the Code of Conduct for the 2015 election campaign and his dismissal of it is so corruptibly contemptuous that it needs the intervention of the GECOM Head, Steve Surujbally.
The GECOM Chairman is never wanting for words and is known for his loud decibels in his defensive arguments. He has hailed the GECOM-invented Code as the Holy Grail for campaigning. Jagdeo has made it into the Surujbally Grail of nonsense and the GECOM boss has a moral obligation to speak out.
Ask me if he will and my answer is he will not. Surujbally is going to find all kinds of jejune reasons not to point in Jagdeo’s direction but Jagdeo has crossed the line and is now beyond redemption.
After his latest press conference and his speech at the function of the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) last Friday at the Providence Stadium, the question any academic analyst should ask of Guyana is if Jagdeo hasn’t permanently damaged any prospect for ethnic harmony in this country.
If the PPP wins the elections, can non-Indians actually accept the government of the PPP after these demonic tales of racist demagoguery that Guyanese are seeing from Mr. Jagdeo?
The independent media, both print and electronic, have found it wise not to report the worst manifestations of fear mongering using the worst race jumbie ever seen in election campaigns in the history of this country by Jagdeo.
I assume that they believe that such racist poison should not be aired and I can understand their attitude but one can argue that such dangers should be explained to the public. I would like to think that academic analysts have a nationalist obligation to contextualize the insane resort to the worst aspects of tribal instincts that have overtaken the PPP election campaign.
If older Guyanese found the campaign slogan, “Vote Apaan Jaat” to have created a lasting venom in the body politic of Guyana, then Jagdeo’s deportment in this campaign has reduced the “Apaan Jaat” message to a triviality compared with what we are seeing with Mr. Jagdeo’s performance.
After monitoring Mr. Jagdeo’s racist incessancy, I am still in shellshock that this man could have sued me for categorizing him as an ideological racist. In this campaign, Mr. Jagdeo has become obsessed with saturating the PPP bandwagon with the worst rhetoric of racial advocacy.
Surujbally praised GECOM’s invention of the Code and since he is the Chairman of GECOM for the past decade, he was in fact praising himself. Surujbally now has to do the decent thing and make his pronouncement on
Jagdeo’s racist distortions that will take Guyana back to very tragic times.
Jagdeo said last week that the lone passenger that was shot in a bus in Agricola was going to the police to reveal the connection between the opposition party and the robbery at the Bourda Post Office. Without any pretence of subtle language, Mr. Jagdeo accused the coalition of being the planners of the robbery. This was getting real low. But Jagdeo hit the lowest level (as yet, I repeat, as yet) when he addressed the audience at the IAC’s event to celebrate the arrival of Indians as indentured servants.
It was volcanic race-baiting, murderous fear-mongering and insane racial sermonizing never before seen in election campaigns even in the era of “Apaan Jaat.”
Jagdeo like a cowboy ready to invade a Wells Fargo money train told his listeners that the ancestors of Guyanese Indians fought for dignity, achieved it and now it is under threat by the bullyism and old methods of repression of the coalition. Please note; he didn’t say Guyanese but Indians.
Pandering to race sentiments, he developed the theme of ethnic superiority by a poor pretence at sociological analysis. He posited that all the races that came to Guyana were equal but Indians stood out because they brought a rich culture and tradition. They brought music and philosophy. One has to be a complete idiot if one fails to see the racial superiority message in that statement.
Next, Jagdeo reminded them that the PNC who attacked Indians in the past has returned under a new guise, meaning the APNU-AFC coalition.
He warned them there are forces that are out to take away the freedom of the Indian people and if Indian people allow that their ancestors would never be proud of them.
He urged Indians to stand up to these forces who want to make them second-class citizens. I guess Surujbally will find a way out and say that the event was not an election campaign speech so the Code was not broken. The Code has become an ass.
