Dear Editor,
LEADER of the parliamentary opposition, Bharat Jagdeo, believes that he is the political whizz kid of Guyana. But this is and has been a false self-perception that he has cunningly built around his persona by the construction of a false narrative that he continues to unload, propelled by and filled with deceptions and pure, unadulterated lies.

By his own mouth, some years ago, he said that adversarial politics is about making the other person look bad. But although the traditional interpretation and practice of this well-known strategy is to exploit and highlight the contradictions of political opponents, it should never be predicated on the resort to blatant falsehoods in all its dishonest forms, as has become the daily behavioural norm of the Leader of the Opposition. I have always contended, this is a standard line that he has continued to carry, exploiting the ethnic divide which exists and also assisted shamefully by sections of the private media.

His continuous dishonesty is again seen in the just concluded process of the selection of his party’s presidential nominee.
Remember his numerous statements about the equal opportunity and chances that each of his party would-be presidential hopefuls would have in its selection process? But this was always going to be – the Jagdeo process.

These were his forked-tongue responses to the spotlight question as to who he supported for the prized spot. Although one can agree that in such prior circumstances that a diplomatic line is often taken, in Jagdeo’s case it was printed deception since the democratic process that he sought to describe was nothing but a sham; a big sham, designed to hide his foregone choice as party’s choice. Of course, his pitiful, spineless willing accessories on the Central Committee to such an insult to transparency were well in tuned with what “the boss wants”.

Thus, Jagdeo making public that he had always supported his “friend” Irfaan Ali for the nomination, gives support to his penchant for grand deception, and articulation for misleading. In disclosing another bout of such deviousness, he has unleashed a fire storm of internal dissent within his party.

Regards
Earl Hamilton