The PPP/C has to move on without former president Bharrat Jagdeo if it is to ever recapture its former political prestige, PPP/C candidate Clinton Urling says but former party stalwart Ralph Ramkarran says that Jagdeo is not one to sit on the sidelines and he has called on disaffected former and current members to form a new political party.
Jagdeo has been blamed for the PPP/C loss at the May 11 general elections which was won by the APNU+AFC coalition. In a letter published in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, Urling said that it will be a difficult task for the party to change if it continues on the current path with Jagdeo as de facto leader. Moreover, it would be difficult to attract, and in his case retain, the type of people who can help reinvent the party, Urling, who joined the party’s campaign several weeks before the elections, wrote.
“Plainly stated, the party has to move on without Jagdeo if it is to ever recapture its
