I wrote this as a response elsewhere but thinks it needs its own thread.
The Hindutva group from ROAR snookered the PPP into carrying water for their fanatical philosophy. They are the ones that give life to the idea that an Indian identity in Guyana is being marginalized and victimized. They are the one that presumably see Moses saying he is "Guyanese" as an affront to the quintessential Indian that Jagdeo admits composes the PPP.This is the PPP kryptonite.
The philosophy is bunk. Every Indian in Guyana do knows who they are. Their unique identity, forged in the crucible in the history of this place, is learnt on their mother's knees. As adults that view solidifies and remains sacrosanct. It is not affected by their subscription to a larger Guyanese culture but is actually reified and made whole by it. And this is is not some retrogressive, backward looking philosophy reflecting India whole as as ROAR and Ravi Dev, Ms, Shaw or Batoram et al would want you to believe. The Indian Guyanese is not some homogenous mythological being seeking to conserve a "Hinduness" as their quintessential Indian identity, independent of their Guyanese ( and creolized) heritage.
Identity is never as pie; it is not the same throughout. Indians in India are not some homogeneity that you can tap one in Mumbai and ask him who he is and another in Goa would tell you exactly the same thing if similarly asked. They come in many flavors as there are independent cultures in india....some 1000 unique versions of Hinduism.. from atheism to asceticism....with unique expressions of personal mores.
There is a distinct smell of crap when one tells you there is one discernible idea of who or what constitute an "indian" in India . In Guyana also "Indian" comes in flavors; Christianized, Muslims, Arya Samage and caste divested Sanathan Dharm and even those completely divested of Indian culture and heavily invested in who they are where ever they are ( in Guyana and in the diaspora) never even thinking of India and connected to it only as an ancestral location.
The PPP has now become like ROAR and they are arguing the same Hindutva cause as ROAR did and this will enrage all others similarly as ROAR did and Divide indians no less than the BJP has done in India. It is a fanatical subversive creed that is revivalist ie looking at India from some mythical (never has been)golden age of Hindu oneness. It is as though Ravi Dev decided not to fight the PPP but to infiltrate it and subvert it since he knew he had a better chance get at indians as a proxy PPPite.
The PPP now fight and argue the Hindutva project completely subverted by ROAR whose disciples have set the tone for the argument in this election cycle. The PPP is snookered off their game of arguing for Guyana in its multicultural diversity into arguing for the Hindutva "Indian"as ROAR did. What a terrible shame!