The PPP continues to fall since 2011

Dear Editor,
I am happy the decent newspapers in this country, Kaieteur News and Stabroek News, have now relegated Vishnu Bisram’s ‘polls’, those highly suspect adventures Bisram claims he engages in, to the letter pages.  However, the lesson is still lost on Bisram. I hope the Editor publishes this comment for it is the unvarnished truth about Bisram as confirmed by Bisram in the very letter he wrote. In his letter titled “NACTA Poll shows overwhelming support for minimum wage, Amalia, & Subsidies to GPL” (KN, September 15, 2013), Bisram himself wrote the following: “The poll interviewed voters to determine support on various government initiated projects as well as popular support for the parties should a snap election be called.” Yet, Bisram published ONLY the ‘results’ on support for various government projects. He deliberately DID NOT publish the results on the support for the political parties if an election is called. Bisram thinks he could swindle the Guyanese public. By cherry-picking and selectively publishing results when most nefariously omitting the most important poll question on who will win what support if an election is called, Bisram is exhibiting his usual intellectually shady tendencies. He wants us to believe his findings on Amaila Falls, etc. but deliberately and most disgustingly fails to publish all his so-called findings.
That Bisram tries to use unverified polls to vaunt the PPP and to improve its political standing is now common knowledge. He is a man who has historically used these ‘polls’ to prostitute the PPP. A common tactic is to inflate his sample. He uses the sample of 44% Indians, 30% Africans, 16% Mixed, 9% Amerindians, and 1% other races when even the smallest child knows the Indian population is nowhere near 44% of the general population today. That child knows the Mixed and Amerindian populations are larger than Bisram’s sample sizes. Bisram also engages in a nasty tactic in negatively framing the survey questions to dovetail a response. For instance, he asks “Do you approve the Opposition’s rejection of the Amaila Hydropower project?” This is an atrocious and absurd question for any pollster to ask no matter how biased and prejudiced this individual is! It frames the question as fact that the Opposition rejects the project when in fact, the Opposition has stated quite clearly it supports the project and hydropower in general but not in its current runaway cost and corrupt form.
In a letter titled “Members Should Choose Leadership of Parties” (KN, September 11, 2013), Bisram continues his charade, calling me pretentious for querying whether the PPP 2013 Congress elections were manipulated, fixed or fraudulent.
Bisram defends the PPP, stating there is no confirmation but only allegations. Yet Bisram goes on to confirm the PNC had manipulated their last internal congress election. Bisram would not admit to the very evident shenanigans of the PPP 2013 congress elections but readily tarred and feathered the AFC and PNC for their democratic failures. Bisram ignores the fact that there were 1,097 delegates eligible to cast ballots while there were 1,599 ballots! That is just an allegation of electoral fraud, democratic destruction and autocratic usurpation to the inner charlatan in Vishnu Bisram! This is found in the Demerara Waves article titled “PPP to declare election results Sunday; Nokta didn’t seek office” (August 3, 2013). That article states the voter list was effectively created minutes before the election when special cards were handed out to only some of the delegates and those persons were the only ones allowed to vote. Only persons bearing those cards were allowed to vote and others with party members’ cards were denied the right to vote. Again, to the intellectual rogue in Vishnu Bisram, this is just mere allegation and most definitely not evidence of a corrupt, unfair and despicable voting practice! And this is not even to mention the statistically shocking vote tallies obtained by Ramotar and Jagdeo or the fact that Kwame McKoy could be sitting on the Central Committee on equal status as Anil Nandlall, who was the fourth highest vote getter but was denied ‘selection’ to the CC Executive Committee.
Vishnu Bisram will remain a stranger to the truth and allergic to what is right but that is not the real terror of his antics. The real horror of his antics is his suspect polls could be used as a cover for electoral rigging, fraud and manipulation by a vanishing PPP in the future. Just before the 2011 election, Bisram was adamant the PPP would win 52% and could win up to 60% of the vote, effectively giving the PPP a range of 52% to 60% with a median of 56%. The PPP got 48.6% in 2011 in an election tainted with allegations of vote-buying. The PPP continues to fall since 2011. When individuals like Bisram openly support anti-democratic practices within the PPP elections, they will have little credence when condemning those who use these practices against them. When the PPP loses power, and it will within the next eight years, this hypocrisy will return to haunt Bisram and those who subscribe to his mindset. Democracy cannot be convenient only to ethnic aggrandizement or confined only to national elections and forcefully abandoned when those considerations are not in play. If dictatorship is practised and embraced by you, others looking on will genuinely believe it is fine to practise it against you.
M. Maxwell