‘Lifetime PPP supporter’ Dr Tulsi Dyal Singh endorses APNU+AFC

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