PPP/C General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday proclaimed his party’s inclusiveness, while urging supporters to use social media to defend its track record even as he accused sections of the media of joining with the opposition to attack the government
Speaking at Babu Jaan, Corentyne, where he, President Irfaan Ali and others had travelled to commemorate the life and work of former president Cheddi Jagan, Jagdeo, noting the diverse crowd gathered, concluded that the PPP/C was the only multiracial party in Guyana. “If you look around here, no other political party in this country can put together a gathering of this nature that is multiracial,” he said, stressing that they went there voluntarily.
He said that his party, while in opposition, openly admitted that more needed to be done to engage Afro Guyanese, to bring them into the party which was strong in Indo-Guyanese representation with growing representation from the Amerindians. “But we have historically failed to bring a large number of Afro Guyanese into the party,” he said. According to him, this was owing to distortion and rumours from the current opposition, adding that Jagan struggled daily to bring persons together.
