The National Assembly is yet to implement a code of conduct which would regulate and monitor the actions of each Member of Parliament (MP) both on the Government and Opposition benches of the House.
Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs, told Guyana Times on Tuesday evening that at the moment there has not been a parliamentary code of conduct established.
“There is no parliamentary code of conduct as yet. They are now working on one I am told. We don’t have in place a parliamentary code of conduct,” he said.
Quite recently, the Alliance For Change (AFC) MP Charandass Persaud, who is also an Attorney-at-Law, expressed his desire to “haul” fellow MP Dr Vindhya Persaud “off the stage”.
It must be recalled that the AFC parliamentarian deemed it fit to write a Letter to the Editor attacking and threatening the Hindu Leader for merely expressing her views regarding her religion.
“Dr Vindhya Persaud so disgusted me that I felt like hauling (her) off the stage,” penned the AFC member in a letter which purported to be calling for a reconciliation of Hindu-Guyanese who were in disagreement over the Diwali date.
His well-thought-out sentiments generated much upheaval among women’s rights activists and women leaders who demanded the AFC MP make a public apology to Dr Persaud and also to all Guyanese women.
Charandass’s statement prompted much disapproval and condemnation from a number of women’s rights supporters and they called upon the AFC MP to issue an apology to the female Hindu leader.
\ However, instead of apologising, Charandass, when contacted by Guyana Times on Sunday evening, appeared unrepentant and this was further supported by his response.
“Who the hell is Vindhya Persaud? And if they kiss my ass, I will apologise to Vindhya Persaud. That is all they need to hear,” he emphatically stated.
He went on to say that the women’s rights group(s) did not read his letter claiming that this document which he had penned did not state that he would “haul” Dr Vindhya off the stage.
“Nobody read my letter and in my letter I never said that I will ‘haul’ her or I wanted to and if I said I wanted to haul the Prime Minister or the Queen of England off the platform what does that mean, I am assaulting her? Even if I said that, that I want to haul Dr Vindhya Persaud off the stage, mind you when they read the letter they will know that is not what I said, so the gutter journalism needs to come to an end…And the women rights group, tell them for me, that if they want me to apologise, let them come and kiss my ass…,” the AFC MP said.
With the absence of a code of conduct for the MPs, this would mean that any of them can make derogatory remarks about others in the House and outside of Parliament without being sanctioned.
The Clerk, when asked about when the long-awaited code of conduct would be completed and presented to the National Assembly stated that he was unsure.
“I can’t say. The Office of the President is dealing with it, the Cabinet, they are dealing with it. I haven’t seen it, I have heard that it on the Internet, the website,” he added.
To date, the AFC and the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) have remained mum on the issue of the MP’s statements about his fellow MP and the insults towards her and the women’s rights groups. (kristenm@guyanatimesgy.com)
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