The ruling PPP had transformed into a party of crony capitalism, former PPP stalwart Ralph Ramkarran says even as he maintains that former president Bharrat Jagdeo uttered a “blatant fraud” against the Jagans when he suggested that the late presidents lived in luxury.
Amid a continuing controversy over some comments made by Jagdeo who sought to compare his lifestyle to that of former presidents Cheddi and Janet Jagan, in his Sunday Stabroek column yesterday, Ramkarran said that General Secretary of the PPP Clement Rohee missed the point when he fiercely defended Jagdeo and his wealth, without a word on his claim about the Jagans, except to say that Jagdeo’s position is not that of the PPP and that only the General Secretary speaks about policy matters.
“In seeking to defend the indefensible, Mr Rohee missed the point,” Ramkarran said while noting that Rohee had said that it is