– political analyst
A RENOWNED political analyst has said AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan is engaging in “political prostitution,” gauging from his recent comment on the resignation of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) stalwart, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran. Mr. Ramkarran resigned from the leadership of the PPP following a disagreement at the start of the last weekend.
The political analyst insists that the AFC leader’s description of Mr. Ramkarran’s departure from the PPP as a ‘dark day for Guyana’ is quite alarming, more so too is his categorisation of Ramkarran as ‘such a distinguished gentleman’.
“…..To now claim this man (Ramkarran), a Senior Counsel, is so valuable to Guyana when you snubbed him and hurled all sorts of criticisms only recently, speaks about the height of Ramjattan’s hypocrisy. What you see here is ‘prostitutive behaviour’ by the AFC, flirting in a manner consistent with naked opportunism,” the analyst concluded.
He said that Ramjattan himself had the opportunity to demonstrate his trust in Ramkarran’s value and distinguished leadership but squandered that opportunity when he rejected the very Ramkarran for Speaker of the 10th Parliament.
There is an obvious contradiction and it goes against the credibility of the AFC leader. He knew then that Ramkarran had years of experience, was a distinguished leader, and had all the qualities that a Speaker should possess, yet still he flirted with APNU to get Raphael Trotman into the Speakership, the political analyst said.
A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) joined with the Alliance For Change (AFC) to reject the PPP/C nominee Ramkarran to be elected Speaker of the 10th Parliament earlier this year.
The PPP had insisted that the agreement reached between the parties goes against the convention in parliamentary democracies where the governing party with the largest number of votes and seats is elected Speaker of the National Assembly.
“I believe Ramkarran is such a party loyalist, that even if anger led him to depart in such a manner, he will not switch-it-up to any other party, …….so Ramjattan may be flirting the wrong side,” he further suggested.
The analyst identified the AFC leader with an inconsistent behaviour pattern of flip-flopping on several issues which raises serious questions about his credibility and also exposes his penchant for political grandstanding.