US-based Guyana-born doctor Dr Tulsi Dyal Singh who says he has been a lifetime supporter of the PPP yesterday endorsed APNU+AFC saying that the ruling party is not that of its founder Dr Cheddi Jagan.
In an advertisement in yesterday’s Stabroek News, the Texas-based Singh said that Dr Jagan’s party was for the people but that this present PPP “is for a clique which is using the PPP’s name to unfairly enrich a few top leaders and their friends.” He listed six other reasons why the PPP/C should be voted out including the secret deals it has struck, the setting up of a private exchequer in government holding company, NICIL, an organised plan to give away the nation’s assets and the bad behaviour of several of its leaders. He cited the Attorney General Anil Nandlall and Education Minister Priya Manickchand’s performance at the residence of the US Ambassador to Guyana. In a letter to Stabroek News he had also condemned the behaviour of the now fired Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran.
Another reason cited by Singh, a Berbician, was what he said was the first opportunity in his lifetime for Guyana to put “race-based politics aside and to grasp this opportunity to do what many of the world’s greatest democracies are doing. That is to combine the strengths of two or more political parties to do what is best for the entire nation…”
He said “For these reasons, I would encourage all Guyanese, especially the life-time PPP supporters like me, to reflect on what is best, not just for us, but what is best for Guyana. And vote for the APNU+AFC.”
A philanthropist, Singh has been engaged in a variety of charitable causes over the years. He resuscitated the Guyana Annual in 1998.
Singh was also one of the doctors consulted by Dr Jagan in 1997 about his heart ailment.
