Dear Editor,
It is amazing the extent to which some people will go to denigrate the PPP and the role played by the PPP in the liberation struggle for a free, democratic and prosperous Guyana.
The fact that the PPP is the only political party that survived until today as a political party since its formation on January 1, 1950 is an achievement by itself. This fact makes the PPP not only the oldest party in Guyana but the party with the highest level of political maturity and the most multi-racial support.
The PPP is also on record as being the only political party in Guyana that has always won free and fair elections in Guyana ever since its formation some sixty-five years ago. It was engineered out of office by foreign vested interests in collaboration with local reactionary elements in the elections of 1964 and denied office by the PNC for twenty-eight years but came triumphantly back to office in 1992 after democracy was finally restored to the country.
It is no exaggeration to say that the PPP has always been in the forefront of all major developments in the country. It led the struggle for the right to vote and for internal self-government and for national independence. After the PNC-UF coalition was catapulted to office in 1964, it waged a relentless battle for the return of democracy to the country.
One reason for the continuing longevity and popularity of the PPP has been its embrace of universal values such as freedom, democracy, the rule of law and good governance.
It takes small minds not to recognise the greatness of the PPP and the role it has played and continues to play in the construction of a modern, democratic and prosperous Guyana. The PPP, unlike those with petty minds, are ideas driven.
Small minds think people; great minds, ideas.
Yours faithfully,
Hydar Ally
