Vice Presidential candidate for the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Ganesh Mahipaul, has criticised the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) for having several persons on their List of Candidates with a criminal history.
At a press conference on Friday, Mahipaul referenced an article he read in one of the daily newspapers, which highlighted General Secretary of the PPP/C, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, speaking about the party’s diversity and dynamism. However, Mahipaul noted that his expectation of the list was not met, as it revealed several individuals who had run-ins with the law for sexual assault and fraud.
“The first name on the PPP’s list is Jason Abdullah. You just gotta go and Google Jason Abdullah, and you will see it will come up… he’s a convict, and we know what he was involved in, in terms of that whole shenanigan…and we remember that quite well,” he noted.
He then pointed to Alister Charlie who was charged back in 2020 for sexual assault. “Just Google it and you will see that too,” Mahipaul added.
Mahipaul also mentioned former Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall, who was removed from his post in 2023 amid allegations that he allegedly raped an Indigenous teenager.
The Vice Presidential Candidate also took swipes at Minister within the Office of the President, Kwame McCoy, along with another PPP party member Vikash Ramkissoon, who was under probe back in 2020 for the sexual molestation of a teen girl.
Further, Mahipaul pointed to former Minister of Health Bheri Ramsaran and National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) Head, Lionel Worsdworth. Ramsaran he said was charged for using insulting language against women’s rights activist Sherlina Nageer, while Wordsworth was accused of fraud back in 2012.
“So this is indeed quite a dynamic and diverse list…and this is just a few. I can go down the line… It is a very dynamic, a very diverse, and a very fraudulent list indeed Bharrat Jagdeo has,” said the APNU Candidate.
