PPP charges… Ramkarran turns history buff in quest for relevance

SINCE his departure from active politics and the ranks of the leadership of the governing People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Mr. Ralph Ramkarran has done his utmost to remain relevant; and according to the PPP, historical recall has become his forte.

In a statement issued yesterday, the party noted that the history of politics is replete with the hindsighted, and Guyana is no different. “Our historical landscape is strewn with their political carcasses. Their evolution is standard: A career of longstanding service and commitment, terminally interrupted by a failure to achieve some end,” it stated.

The PPP pointed out that, having departed, such individuals turn their attacks on their former comrades; and Ramkarran is proving to follow this time-tested trajectory.
However, the party statement said, unlike many others, in his exercise, Ramkarran makes no pretense about clearing his name, justifying his role, or easing his conscience. According to the PPP, his is classified warfare, always with the threat of more to come, which is all “pretense”.

The statement noted that, in 1997, after unacceptable revelations, Ramkarran was not selected as the party’s presidential candidate. But subsequently, the party recognized and spoke appreciatively of his fortitude in returning to active leadership after that personal reversal.

It added that he also played a significant role in the constitution reform exercise, (1999-2001).In addition, it stated that, as the Speaker of the 8th and 9th Parliament, Ramkarran moderated a workable level of tension between the legislature and the PPP/C Administration.

However, the PPP claims that, from 2006 to 2011, as Speaker, Ramkarran’s ambitions resurfaced and were clearly enunciated. “He was again aspiring to be the next President of Guyana, and publicly strove to show that he was unique and different from other PPP members…of the PPP/C Administration and the PPP leadership,” the statement said.

The statement continued that Ramkarran’s bid for the PPP presidential candidacy was again lost in February 2011. According to the release, he, like the other candidates, had to make presentations and defend his bid for the post before his leadership peers. His presentation did not reveal knowledge or concern about levels of corruption that he now discloses; and, in fact, corruption of government and party officials was not featured in the issues he was going to address were he to be elected as the President.

The PPP noted that Ramkarran’s latest disappointment came in January 2012 when, having tried so hard for so many years to be the “independent” Speaker and no “lackey of the government,” he revelled in the laudatory declarations of the PNC and AFC, at the end of the 9th Parliament, regarding his outstanding stewardship at the helm of the National Assembly.

However, after the November 28, 2011 elections, Parliamentary opposition parties opposed efforts of President Donald Ramotar to have him re-elected as Speaker; and in fact voted down his nomination as Speaker at the very first sitting of the 10th Parliament.
“Again, the PPP and the PPP/C administration stood by him and exposed the opportunism of the opposition parties. The PPP leadership did not waiver in its support for him,” the statement said. However, his departure was inexplicable as it was sudden.

Sometimes Indians has to look deep within the recesses  their souls to find an answer that it is not others  that is responsible for our demise but it is us through personal ambition and not for the good of us all but the individual who his willing to throw away all that he had achieved for personal glorification.Ramkarran , Nagamottoo you is scum