STALWART and executive member of the People’s Progressive Party {PPP], Mr. Harrypersaud Nokta, has called on all party comrades to continue the struggle so that the name and legacy of the late Father of the Nation and founder of the PPP, Dr. Cheddi Jagan, will live on.

Mr. Nokta, who is a former  Minister of Local Government and Regional Development and who is now hinterlnd coordinator to that ministry, said down the corridors of centuries to come the name of Cheddi Jagan, a fighter against oppression and for the rights of the downtrodden will continue to resound in the ears of future generations. He called for comrades to recommit themselves to the struggle because it is the PPP that has made them what they are today.
According to Nokta, the PPP holds the month of March very sacred because it remembers some of its great leaders that were with the party. The executive member said across the country there are activities taking place everywhere, including the interior during the month of March as comrades remember the Father of the Nation, the Late, Dr. Cheddi Jagan and his wife Janet, who was also a great leader and President of Guyana.
Executive member of the party and Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee in his address to party comrades at the Night of Refection held on the lawns of State House at Anna Regina Saturday night, said Dr. Jagan is very special to the PPP first and foremost and for Guyana as a whole.
Mr. Rohee said the late Dr. Jagan contributed to uplifting  the living standards of the Guyanese people from since the days of indentureship throughout the period of the 1950s when he founded the party. He pointed out that anyone with reasonable sense will recognise the contributions of Dr. Jagan.
According to Rohee, Cheddi was a great and excellent communicator who could have talked about his life story in an interview with two primary school students in very simple terms. The video of the interview was shown to party comrades at the Night of Reflection activity.
Taking  party comrades back to the early days of the PPP Government, Mr. Rohee said the PPP was in government for 133 days in 1955 and from 1957 to 1964, during a seven-year period in government, the transformation the country went through was unbelievable. Now the PPP is in government once again from 1992 to  current which is the longest period the party has been in government; which shows that the party is winning election after election precisely because people believe in what Dr. Jagan stood for. After he had passed away people continued to believe in what the PPP stood for.
However Mr. Rohee said they are some who try to make a case that the PPP has departed from what Dr. Jagan stood for and that the legacy of the great leader is being betrayed, which is not true.
The programme included songs and poems which depicted the life and work of the great leader and founder of the PPP.