SEVERAL factions within the Alliance for Change are beginning to lobby the party’s general membership and wider leadership for the resignation of Khemraj Ramjattan, who it is believed, has not been handling the internal affairs of the party properly.

Ramjattan was elected leader of the Alliance for Change at the party’s last delegate’s conference in August this year, following the resignation of Raphael Trotman.
Since his appointment to the post, the party has been sharply criticised by its general membership for its poor handling of several internal conflicts and rifts that have slowly made their way into the public domain and public media.
This newspaper understands that several pockets of organised AFC grassroots supporters have already begun calling for Ramjattan’s resignation. “We are concerned that not only is he messing things up internally, but he is leading the party down the wrong path. We are looking bad and just as vindictive as the APNU”, an AFC grassroots supporter and lobbyist explained.
Another senior member of the party who has been speaking under the condition of anonymity to this newspaper explained that “the Nigel Hughes faction is also seeking to lay the groundwork so that their candidate could be prematurely propelled to the leadership chair of the AFC”.
Already, the grassroots supporters allege that Ramjattan’s four-month stewardship of the party has led to a massive decline of its image, as persons have begun again to confuse its positions and policies with those of A Partnership for National Unity and the People’s National Congress Reform.
“We don’t like what they are doing in parliament. Ramjattan is making us look like we are part of the APNU coalition, and I am opposed to this. I joined this party because they said they would be different than the PPP and PNC”, another supporter, who gave her name as only “Jenny”, remarked.
The various members feel that the AFC, under Ramjattan’s leadership, will cause them another election as he is appearing to be very “radical” in his management style. Others have cited that the PPP/C turn AFC Leader and parliamentarian appears to have an obsession with “going after the former President Bharrat Jagdeo, even though some of us in the AFC would prefer that the party focus its energies on working towards rooting out corruption and building the platform for an AFC government”.
Several party grassroots leaders have already spoken out against the “silence or be silenced culture” that is being promoted by Ramjattan within the party, even when flagrant problems related to internal corruption, bribery and character assassination occur within the party.
“With Ramjattan the Alliance for Change will change for the worse”.