Dear Editor,
Reference is made to a response to my letter written by Mark DaCosta captioned, ‘Calling for national unity while rejecting the representatives of the majority of Guyanese…’ (SN, September 20). I am absolutely clear in my advocacy. I call for a total rejection of the ideologically bankrupt political dinosaurs in Guyana – the PPP and PNC which dominate the APNU.
Mr DaCosta should not attempt to mislead the people. The PPP and PNC had their chance and the empirical evidence illustrates that there is no better life to be gained by anyone supporting either the PPP or PNC (now APNU). For 50 years they have dominated the political elite in Guyana and what do we have to show for their tenure at the Office of the President? Billions of dollars in debt with very little else, a broken health care system, an education system that produces an unsatisfactory pass rate at exams, a high poverty rate, and a minimum wage that is nothing but poverty wages. I can list at least 101 reasons why the PPP and the APNU (which is dominated by the PNC) should be rejected.
I respect Mr DaCosta’s right to associate with the APNU and his attempt to repackage and resell this second-hand machinery as brand new, but that plan will only have traction with the uninformed. I have full confidence in the intelligence of the Guyanese people and the results of the 2011 elections prove that the majority of the people rejected the option that Mr DaCosta is selling.
Guyana can only have meaningful and positive change when the contribution of the PPP and PNC are put into perspective by the voters by slicing away racial fear. That time is now, since for the first time in the history of Guyana, no one race has an overall majority, so it will be a race on their records, their history, and most importantly, their policies. On all three, the PPP and APNU will fail with an F Grade.
For the record, I left the PPP in 2006 immediately after that party stole the Region 10 seat from the AFC and never looked back, since what they have done goes against my grain. We did not fight for free and fair elections to have this illegality reinstituted. I reject such electoral skullduggery. It reminded me so much of the electoral skullduggery from the PNC days. I saw for myself what was done to Guyana in 1985. It was all about naked power and abuse, while children were having rats eat their toes at the Georgetown Hospital they still executed the worst rigged elections in the history of Guyana. So no one should come with their ‘Johnny come lately’ story that the APNU is ‘sugar and pie.’
I am a firm believer in one man, one vote and both the PPP and PNC have shown they do not subscribe to such political ethics. One only has to revisit the PPP and PNC congresses; they are examples of unrighteousness and corruption and show absolute disrespect for their delegates. Only in August, a shot was fired in Congress Place in circumstances of confusion, while the main challenger withdrew because of the unsatisfactory state of the delegates list from which many eligible Region 10 members had been omitted. The same happens in the PPP but behind closed doors.
Is this what Mr DaCosta is selling? I will continue to keep the message afloat that these political parties are bad news for Guyana. Let us judge them on their record, their substance, their real inner beauty, not how much foundation and make-up they can apply to their faces.
Editor, I am just the messenger and an ordinary bystander. It is better to save your soul and lose the world than the opposite.
Yours faithfully,
Sase Singh
