Jagan siblings split on political support; PPP resurrects Janet’s “warning”

One day after her brother called a press conference at his Georgetown office to announce his support for the APNU+AFC, Nadira Jagan-Brancier wrote a one paragraph letter from her Canadian home, indicating that she was still supportive of the PPP.

Jagan siblings split on political support; PPP resurrects Janet’s “warning”

With just days to go before Guyanese head to the polls on May 11, the two children of late Guyana presidents and founders of the People’s Progressive Party, Dr. Cheddi and Janet Jagan are going separate ways with their political support.

The son, Dr. Cheddi Jagan Jr. who owns a dental practice and lives in Guyana has endorsed the APNU+AFC coalition while the daughter, Nadira Jagan-Brancier who works and lives in Canada is staying close to home and will be supporting the party of her parents, the PPP.

One day after her brother called a press conference at his Georgetown office to announce his support for the APNU+AFC, Nadira Jagan-Brancier wrote a one paragraph letter from her Canadian home, indicating that she was still supportive of the PPP.

In her letter, Ms. Jagan-Brancier said “I am writing to let it be known that I support the People’s Progressive Party/Civic in the upcoming elections on May 11, 2015 and urge everyone to go out and vote early on that day for the Cup.”

A few months ago in a scathing letter to the press, Ms. Jagan-Brancier openly criticized the current batch of PPP leaders and former President Bharrat Jagdeo.

She wrote then that “I am extremely disappointed that Bharrat Jagdeo would try to compare his lifestyle to that of my parents, former Presidents Dr. Cheddi Jagan and Mrs. Janet Jagan, and defend his opulent lifestyle by pathetically claiming that my parents also lived in a large house in an affluent community. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

At his Monday press conference, Dr. Cheddi Jagan Jr. said that the PPP of today is not the PPP of his parents. He accused the current leaders of the PPP of being involved in corrupt practices and not looking out for the working class and the rest of the country. 

The PPP in response, published a full-page advertisement in the local newspapers with a letter that was allegedly written by the late Mrs. Janet Jagan. In the letter she raised questions about her son’s credibility.

Mrs. Jagan died in 2009. The letter about her son’s credibility was not raised or published when he supported the PPP in 2011.

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