Scandal-plagued former Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall, is among the big vote getters emerging from the People’s Progressive Party’s Congress, having finished with the sixth highest number of votes to sit on the party’s Central Executive Committee.

Mr. Dharamlall’s tenure as Minister came to an end after he was accused of raping a high school girl. He always denied the accusations, and the teenager abruptly recanted her allegations just as charges were being prepared against him.

Today, during the closing press conference of the party’s conference, General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo was asked about Mr Dharamlall’s inclusion in the party’s executive structure. 

According to Mr. Jagdeo, the election of the new members to the executive was solely up to the delegates who saw the value in those who they elected. 

“We can’t choose, the delegates are who choose the names and therefore each of those members would be a valuable member of the Central Committee because they were chosen by the delegates of our party. Every one of the 35 were chosen our delegates wanted these people to be in the leadership of the party,” Mr. Jagdeo said.

A number of Senior PPP leaders did not make into the Central Executive and News Source understands, there were lots of horse trading before the voting began to have more persons from outlying regions included into the Executive Structure. It saw the emergence of former Region 9 REO Karl Singh who was arrested for shooting a woman in 2021, Region 9 Chairman, Bryan Allicock and Region 1 Chairman Brentol Ashley

“This is party, all that happened is that names were put to the delegates and people voted, it was an open and transparent process and it was a democratic process and therefore, the names that you see there were chosen by the delegates,” Mr. Jagdeo stated.

Longstanding Members of the Party Ganga Persaud, Mitra Devi Ally, Vishwa Mahadeo and David Armagon were among those who did not make it back to the Central Committee.

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