Pitching the presidential candidacy of Donald Ramotar at Tuesday’s night Diwali programme at the LBI Community Centre, President Bharrat Jagdeo urged the massive crowd gathered to see elections day as part of “the struggle” to ensure that the country never returns to the days when culture and identity were under “active assault”.
Addressing the audience which had gathered to see the culmination of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha organized motorcade, the President said that it was necessary to realize the modern significance of Diwali and the lighting of diyas – which includes” a struggle for enlightenment” and “a struggle against evil”.
He referred to the colonial area when the cultures brought from Africa and India were under active assault and indicated that the PPP had played an important part in the struggle against this
