NOTWITHSTANDING a lack of turn out to Sunday’s ‘Unity Walk,’ Founder of Destiny to Oneness, Yenchandra Rambarran, remained committed to the task and, by himself, completed the walk along Brickdam, which began at 07:00hrs.

Rambarran, in an interview, told Guyana Chronicle that a few persons contacted him 30 minutes after the walk commenced with the intention of participating but he had already completed the entire route from the Public Buildings to the Independence Arch.
“It didn’t really go nice…because [it] was me alone from the start… [But] people called after,” Rambarran told this newspaper.

Rambarran suggested that perhaps he did not advertise the event enough. The walk was held on the same day that the two major political parties in the country held their rallies.
The governing A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) coalition had a massive rally in Linden, Region 10, while the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) had their rally in Stewartville on the West Coast of Demerara, Region Three.
Rambarran said that he organised the walk because of the highly polarised elections’ season.

“My aim and objective is not about getting involved in these political things with the people but it is to get us– the Guyanese people– to unite. We have to stand together, especially with the influx of foreigners,” Rambarran stated.

He said Guyanese must position themselves for the changing landscape.
Rambarran’s party – Destiny to Oneness – will not be contesting Guyana’s upcoming March 2 General and Regional Elections, as his party did not qualify to be placed on the ballot.
To be considered as a candidate for Guyana’s General and Regional Elections, political parties are required to submit a National Top of List of Candidates comprising at least 42 candidates, and at least six Geographical Lists of Candidates.

Destiny to Oneness was launched in December 2019. Though it did not reach the requirements to contest the upcoming elections, Rambarran said the party is here to stay.
“We didn’t make the qualification criteria for the elections [but] that doesn’t mean that we have to fade away; we didn’t come to fade away, we came to stay,” he said.
Rambarran, a re-migrant who currently works in the auto-servicing business, said that he formed the party after feeling “hurt” and victimised by both sides of the major political divide at different points in history.

In 2018, Rambarran had contested the Local Government Elections (LGE) as an independent candidate in Georgetown for Constituency Two, where he garnered some 19 votes.