PLEASE, can you permit me to write regarding the hysteria being perpetrated by some people regarding the racial bias of the People’s Progressive Party and by extension its leadership.

I would like to remind those who seem to have forgotten that the PPP was built by hard working members of all races. There has never been any exclusivity clause in membership in favour of Guyanese of Indian descent. The Leadership from its inception in 1953 was comprised of all ethnic origins and just to reiterate this I want to remind your readers of the following personalities who formed and served the PPP with distinction:
* Brindley Benn
* Ashton Chase
* E.M.G. Wilson
* Boysie Ramkarran
* David Gulliver
* Claude Christian
* Jocelyn Hubbard
* Maurice Herbert
* Michael Forde
* Clinton Collymore
These were just a few of the true stalwarts who stood with Dr. Jagan as their leader and fought the prejudices and racial tensions of the pre and post-independence PNC. Of course there were similar members of Indian descent who were actively fighting against the racial doctrines of the PNC but suffice to say, the PPP was never a racially biased Party.
In this current Elections season, it will be much appreciated if the Opposition APNU can reflect on its own heritage of propagating racial hatred and offer as part of their manifesto an insight into their plans to stamp out racial tension and prejudice.
Can they begin by rejecting their new partner the AFC from spouting the unsubstantiated belief of “being able to hand the coalition 11% of the Indo Guyanese vote”?
No one wants to support a political party whose attitude stinks of racial bias. This belief that Guyanese will vote on the basis of race does not exist except in the minds of pseudo-politicians who have zero abilities or chances of being elected to govern our country.

FAOUD KHAN