Dear Editor
THERE is clearly a coordinated attack against the PPP-C on behalf of APNU-WIN. The core of the attack is to advocate for a minority PPP-C government.
The effort is coming from four major sources – (1) a major national newspaper; (2) a resident from New York who had launched a political party to sell-out Guyana’s sovereignty but caved-in and withdrew because of flat rejection by the Guyanese people; (3) an unconfirmed (no names) group of UG students; (4) an ambiguous character (letter writer) that cannot be positively identified.
Before I proceed, I want you to know that I have a PhD in political science, was a full professor at the American University in Washington DC, and that I have spoken and participated in academic activities at 37 universities in 22 countries. I am also widely published in the field of political science and foreign affairs.
Based on my training, I can tell you that the so-called scientific poll pushed by Vishnu Bisram is a scam. It does not exist. All you need to do is carefully read Bisram’s letter in KN (8/28/2025) and you will find a cocktail of innuendos, biased speculation, and elementary errors that would have been easily avoided by even a low level propagandist.
Take note of the following – (1) the poll was supposedly done by a group of UG students but by Bisram’s own admission there are no individual names or no name of a group. I spoke to senior UG officials and they know of no such group; (2) Bisram himself states that polling is NOT taught at UG or anywhere else in Guyana. One must wonder then, where the group of students got their training to do the polling; (3) Bisram says that poll results are pinned to a specific period, but admits that he does not know when the polls were done; Bisram has not seen the polling results himself, but for someone who claims to be a pollster, relies on letter writer named Khemraj Harryram whom no one has ever heard about.
Other elementary errors are as follows (1) Bisram claims that he does not know how the supposed polling was done. Yet he praises them thus – “The UG students are lauded for their field work.”
This last point is evidently based on guess-work, or an outright misrepresentation. While pollsters and analysts usually stand neutral on poll results, Bisram salutes the “courage” of the letter writer Harryram. Courage? Anyone who has done intelligence analysis will easily spot what is going on here.
Harryram’s letter itself can be easily detected to be based on fiction. Note that in his four-point “Preliminary Interpretation of the Results,” points three and four are solely concerned with the rise of WIN. This is a true technique of “push-polling” – that is assuming any polling was done, at all.
Editor, as a trained political scientist I can tell you that the poll is bogus, and that the name Harryram has been deployed to lend a semblance of neutrality to the grand conspiracy. Mr. Bisram has been pushing his minority government thesis in various forms for several months now.
My own prediction is that, not only will President Ali win a second term, but that the PPP-C will receive a clear mandate to govern the country for the good of all. The coordinated attack against the PPP-C will fail. On the Harryram and Bisram gambit, all I have to say is the first time as tragedy; the second time as farce.
Dr Randy Persaud
Office of the President