Amna Ally distorts history telling PNCR members ‘fables for facts’ – PPP

The Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) is attempting to rewrite the course of history in order to bury the devastation that was unleashed by the Forbes Burnham Administration, which was engineered into power by external forces.

The machinations were vehemently condemned over the course of the weekend when the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) responded to PNCR General Secretary Amna Ally’s attempt to diminish the accomplishments of Dr Cheddi Jagan – all in an effort to paint the PNC in a better light.”
The PNCR General Secretary was quoted over the weekend as saying that under the Government of the PNC Administrations between 1964 and 1992, Guyana experienced advancement. She said when the PNC entered office in 1964, the country was a broken nation.
According to the PPP, as at 1964, up to which time Dr Jagan served as Premier of the then British Guiana, several advances had been made, including: the establishment of a National Economic Council; the development of the Black Bush Polder scheme, in recognition of the need to diversify agriculture and industry; the establishment of the University of Guyana and the Guyana School of Agriculture in 1963; the industrial estate at Ruimveldt; and several other major advances, even as the fight for Guyana’s independence persisted.
Ally also reported to party members that when the PNC took power in 1964, it was after “violence, racial strife, labour disputes” under Dr Jagan as premier.
The PPP maintains, “Again, amnesia seems to have hit Ally, since she says nothing of the infamous ‘X-13’ plan of the PNC in June of 1964.”
The PNC, under the leadership of Burnham, Hamilton Green, Ptolemy Reid, former officers of the British Guiana Police and Volunteer Forces among others, are alleged to have been part of the infamous “X-13” plan, which involved a series of bombing attacks.
The PPP, in lashing out at Ally’s remarks, said Dr Jagan spoke on the situation in British Guiana, and called for a Commonwealth team to settle the issues at hand.
Documents on the 1962, 1963 and 1964 disturbances, as well as the ‘X-13’ plan were also handed over to the British at that time.
The PPP, in laying its case, said the circumstances under which the PNC remained in office until 1992 have also been documented, locally and internationally.
“So while Ally says that the PNC in government had a tremendous track record, she is right – the PNC had a tremendous record of rigged elections, economic collapse, and the impositions of hardships on the Guyanese people.”
The political opposition, in its public response to the PNC General Secretary, also observed, “Interestingly, while Ally seeks to rewrite Guyana’s history and talk up the accomplishments of the PNC between 1964 and 1992, she says nothing about the current state of affairs – one that is presided over by the current leader of the PNCR, President David Granger.”
The PPP party, currently led by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, insists that in under three years (in office), the PNCR-led Government has racked up over 50 scandals, and Guyanese have witnessed a slowdown of the local economy, breaches of our constitution, massive spending on salaries and benefits for the now largest Cabinet in the Caribbean, among other deplorable acts.”
The opposition maintains it “will not allow the history of Guyana to be rewritten, least of all by operatives of the PNC.”