ANOTHER leading Alliance For Change (AFC) Executive, Gerhard Ramsaroop, has reportedly left the party as the infighting widens among factions in that small political party. Ramsaroop could not be reached for comment but a top party official confirmed his resignation.
Several reasons were given for Ramsaroop’s resignation from the AFC with the most popular being his disagreement over the party’s 2011 presidential candidacy.
Several high profile members have left the AFC throughout its brief history citing similar indifferences with the party’s leadership, with the most recent being Peter Ramsaroop. In other cases, there have been claims about discrimination and marginalization against a certain section of the party membership.
There is speculation too that Ramsaroop may have decided to put his political life in the backseat in favour of concentrating his efforts  on a bulk of business ventures inherited from his father. Ramsaroop’s father, Boyo, who passed away in March of this year, was a long standing political activist and one of Guyana’s leading horticulturists.
Over the last few months there have been signs of growing discontentment over the treatment of certain issues in the party, among which, is, its leadership feud between the party’s two top men, Raphael Trotman and Khemraj Ramjattan.
The National Executive Committee of the party has since selected Ramjattan as the presidential candidate for the 2011 elections but has not been able to remove the existing bitterness among factions in the AFC.
An AFC Executive expressed concern for the future of the AFC, saying, if the in-fighting is not managed well the party could implode. There needs to be greater emphasis on in-house democracy and withdrawal of the executive arrogance displayed by Trotman, Ramjattan and Holder who seem to be the reservoir of all ideas.

Political analysts say the absence of ‘unity’ in the AFC has caused major setbacks. Right now, the AFC has several factions plus a leadership crisis. This naturally creates a negative impression and it is bound to affect its chances at the next elections, the analyst argued.