As Guyana throws itself into gear to prepare for the 2025 National Elections, it is useful to reflect on potential outcomes now (the incumbent PPP being returned to office, with the PNCr working hard to maintain their parliamentary salaries) versus what is really needed: A new government led by new leaders from a new political party. The challenge is how to beat the PPP. (The AFC will be dogged by its alliance to the PNCR in the Coalition’s folly during their recent term of administration and the 2020 rigging fiasco. Further, with the flagrant conflict of interest position it supports with Nigel Hughes, it has reduced itself to political irrelevance for the upcoming elections, and will be flogged by the PPP at its rallies.)
It is a given that Indian Guyanese have borne the brunt of much discrimination and ill-treatment at the hands of PNC-led administrations, and will only vote against the PPP if they are presented with an alternative political party which they can feel confident will treat them equitably. The same could be said for supporters of the PNC.
It is against this backdrop that the Democratic National Congress is appealing to both Indian and African Guyanese leaders to see the DNC as the vehicle through which we as a people can work together to build a strong government so that Indian Guyanese especially can feel confident breaking away from the PPP as they did in 2015. Indian Guyanese, Indian Guyanese leaders must understand that it is upon their shoulders Guyana’s future rests, it is upon their shoulders we will be able to return government to the people, so that everything from renegotiating the Exxon contract to investing in our human and productive capital can be achieved, to eliminate poverty and further increase the non-oil economy’s share of national output to ensure balanced growth and end the graft that begins with the PPP’s Corruption-in-Chief. Corruption and oppression will never end under the PPP.
In every nation’s history there have been times when citizens have been beaten down and trodden underfoot, when persons with a sense of justice, loyalty and character rise to lead their people against their oppressors. I submit that this is such a time in Guyana. We had our time with Burnham and the PNC, and we barely escaped them. Now we’re up against Jagdeo and the PPP with their own brand of corruption and economic oppression. Guyana desperately needs to defeat the PPP at the polls, and Indian leaders are urged to see our condition and listen to the nation’s call for help. This cannot be done without you. We have lost enough already from the PPP’s oppression and Exxon’s economic piracy. Stand now to lead and unite Guyana. Work with other Guyanese to develop the DNC and lead us so that November 2025 will be the last month Guyana will see its resources squandered and stolen by the economic pirates in our midst, when we will finally reclaim our government, when we can finally say of Jagdeo, the PPP and PNC: “Free At Last! Free At Last!!”
