Another leading Alliance for Change (AFC) executive, Grehard Ramsaroop has reportedly left the party as infighting widens among factions in that small political party in Guyana.
The Guyana Chronicle reported that several reasons were given for Ramsaroop’s resignation from the AFC, with the most popular being his disagreement over the party’s 2011 presidential candidacy.
Several high profile members have left the AFC throughout its brief history, citing similar differences with the party’s leadership, the most recent being Peter Ramsaroop. In other cases, there have been claims about discrimination and marginalization against a certain section of the party membership.
There is speculation too that Ramsaroop may have decided to put his political life in the backseat in favour of concentrating his efforts on a number of business ventures inherited from his father. Ramsaroop’s father, Boyo, who was a PPP stalwart, passed away in March of this year.
Over the last few months there have been signs of growing discontent over the treatment of certain issues in the party, among which is a leadership feud between the party’s two top men, Raphael Trotman and Khemraj Ramjattan. The National Executive Committee of the party has since selected Ramjattan as the presidential candidate for the 2011 elections, but has not been able to remove the existing bitterness among factions in the AFC.
