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Nadira Jagan-Brancier throws support behind PPP/C — urges electorate to vote for the Cup on Monday

MERE days after her brother Joey Jagan endorsed A Partnership For National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Alliance, his sister Nadira Jagan-Brancier is calling on the electorate to vote for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).In a terse letter published in the Stabroek News yesterday, Jagan-Brancier said contrary to rumours, she is not in support of the APNU+AFC Alliance.

Joey Jagan

Joey Jagan

“It seems that there have been rumours that the children of Cheddi and Janet Jagan are supporting the APNU+AFC Coalition. I do not!” the daughter of the former presidents said.
Jagan-Brancier in recent years has been frank in her views about the PPP, with her criticism appearing to focus more on certain elements and the direction of the party, rather than the party itself.
In 2012, a few months after the PPP/C had lost the majority in Parliament following the 2011 General and Regional Elections, Jagan-Brancier speaking at a function in remembrance of her parents, made some unflattering comments.
She had said: “It is not enough to go out there and make lovely speeches about who my parents were, what they did and the legacy that we’re carrying on… I think the party has moved away– not the party but certain elements in the party— from these very, very important values that held the party together and what makes the PPP what it is…
“Only way you can follow them is to return to basics, return to who this party is which is the working-class party, obviously you have to support other people, but the base of this party is a working-class party, get back to being a non-corruptible party, so people can’t point a finger and say ‘there is so much corruption, why should we worry? If the leaders don’t show the moral values, then people won’t do it, and your children won’t grow up with moral values.”
APNU+AFC endorsement
A few days ago, her brother Joey, who campaigned for the PPP/C in the 2011 Elections, endorsed the David Granger and Moses Nagamootoo-led APNU+AFC Alliance.
According to him, the country is poorly managed, and while all the leaders in the PPP are not bad, the party has done badly enough, warranting a change.
And on that point, he called on the electorate to give their support to the APNU+AFC on May 11.
The PPP/C on the campaign trail has contended that the People’s National Congress (PNC) is going through an identity crisis as it tries to hide from its sordid past.
The ruling party has told the electorate that in the metamorphosis, the former administration has moved from being PNC, to PNC Reform (PNCR), to PNCR-1 Guyana, to the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and now the APNU+AFC Alliance.
It maintained that notwithstanding the name changes, the old PNC is still large and in charge.
Former President Janet Jagan was a known target of the PNC Administration, and their relentless Opposition to her presidency was one of the factors that influenced her resignation from the post.
Jagan-Brancier had said she hates people who put her mother down, and at one time candidly noted: “This is the way I feel.”
Vote PPP/C
Sticking to the party her mother helped found and nurture, Jagan-Brancier in the terse letter declared, “I am writing to let it be known that I support the People’s Progressive Party/Civic in the upcoming elections on May 11, 2015,” urging “everyone to go out and vote early on that day for the Cup”.
Meanwhile, the PPP/C in a full page advertisement of a letter allegedly written by former President Janet Jagan, accused her son Joey of being disrespectful to her, his father and the party they founded.
According to the letter, Joey was less than honest when he said the country’s first Executive President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham was his Godfather.

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Bro, four more day to go before we celebrate the coalition victory.  Even though I am giving the coalition two thumbs up, them fellas still pissed off with me. I have to ask the question, WHY?

FM

One day she thinks that the current PPP leadership are corrupt skunks and the next she on the bandwagon. 

Cheddi and Janet Jagan must be turning in their graves – says daughter at memorial

APRIL 4, 2012 | BY  | FILED UNDER NEWS 

Ms Jagan-Brancier speaking to the audience

“My parents were probably the most incorruptible people you would ever find; their honesty and integrity were of very high standards, but unfortunately do not exist or I don’t see it in many of the leaders of the party and government.”
The comments came from the daughter of the late Guyanese leaders Dr Cheddi Jagan and Mrs Janet Jagan. She said that the current leaders of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and government lack “the very, very, very high moral standards” which her parents embodied when they were alive.
Mrs Nadira Jagan-Brancier scolded the party for putting out platforms using her parents’ name— particularly her father’s— and not living up really and truly to what her parents had stood for. “It is not enough to go out there and make lovely speeches about who my parents were, what they did and the legacy that we’re carrying on”.
She said that her parents fought for sugar workers, the poor and down-trodden in Guyana and in the world. “That’s who they stood for, and again, I think the party has moved away— not the party but certain elements in the party— from these very, very important values that held the party together and what makes the PPP what it is and so for me, when I look at some of the things happening, my parents must be turning in their graves— but they must be churning up in the waters of the rivers (in which their ashes were sprinkled)”.
She said that if the PPP is saying that it is following Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan as a living guide, “the only way you can follow them is to return to basics, return to who this party is which is the working- class party, obviously you have to support other people, but the base of this party is a working- class party, get back to being a non- corruptible party, so people can’t point a finger and say ‘there is so much corruption, why should we worry?”
The daughter of the late leaders then pleaded with the PPP/C leaders and members to get back to the high and moral values. “If the leaders don’t show the moral values then people won’t do it, and you’re children won’t grow up with moral values. And if your families don’t show moral values, then society as a whole will lose that”.
“Their lives were involved in politics so their time for me and my brother was very limited…They weren’t there the amount of hours that most people would have their parents around, but the times that they were, it was what they called quality time, not quantity…so the times they spent with us— memories that I will have for the rest of my life”.
She noted that her parents were very normal, simple, and humble people and a “very, very loving couple”. She recalled sitting down for breakfast in the mornings around the family table and listening to the news from Guyana or the BBC “and you weren’t allowed to talk”.
She noted that they lived very simple lives and told the gathering that the house in which her parents once lived, is now open to the public. “The house is there and I really encourage people to use the opportunity to go in Bel Air and see the house where they lived…They lived a very simple life; they didn’t have big ostentatious homes that you see nowadays that government officials and party officials have, which is a very sad thing, personally”.
Ms Jagan- Brancier also encouraged persons to visit the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre in Kingston. “This was when my father was Premier from 1961 to 1964”.
“Most people think of my mom as only writing for the Mirror and other political things; my mom wrote a lot of children stories— I hope that people who have children would know this. She was also a poet and wrote some beautiful poems.”
Mrs Jagan’s prison diary, she said, are all important documents that Mrs Jagan-Brancier urged persons to read. The Cheddi Jagan website is also another feature that she urged the public to access information www.jagan.org “and on this website, you will find information”.

Mars

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