JAGDEO! assault on our democracy. There is an assault on people of Indian

DESPITE his comments being deemed “racist” by many, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has said that he stands by the comments he made in New York recently.“Today I want to repeat all that I said abroad and I want to unequivocally stand by every statement I said so far,” Jagdeo said at a press conference held at the Peoples’ Progressive Party’s (PPP’s) Freedom House headquarters on Wednesday.

About two weeks ago, the Opposition Leader, while speaking at a social event in Queens, New York, said Guyana’s political, economic and social conditions were worse than in the 1970s and 1980s under the then People’s National Congress (PNC) Government. He went on to suggest that there is discrimination on the basis of ethnicity being perpetuated by the coalition Government, on people of Indian descent.

“There is an assault on our democracy. There is an assault on people of Indian origin. There is an assault on supporters of the PPP.  What we thought would never return to Guyana in just one short year has returned with full force, and even worse in some regards than the Burnham era,” he told the predominantly East Indian gathering.