I read with some incredulity the recent missive by Mr. Lalbachan Chris Ram in sections of the media, lamenting that the PPP/C’s political campaign has “taken a nasty turn.” What Mr. Ram has conveniently ignored, however, is his own egregious pattern of double standards — a posture that reduces his intervention to hollow grandstanding.
For years, Mr. Ram has sought to position himself as the moral guardian of Guyana’s politics, yet his silence on the WIN party is deafening. This is a party that entered the political arena in 2025 and dragged political discourse in Guyana to depths that not even APNU or the AFC — for all their faults — had descended to. While he takes aim at the PPP/C, he has spared not a single syllable of condemnation for the WIN party, despite its conduct representing the most disgraceful chapter in our political history.
Let us be reminded of the facts. An operative of the WIN party had physically attacked a woman on nomination day — violently and shamefully. They have launched vile and distasteful assaults on the President’s mother, an elderly woman who deserves dignity, not abuse. Their trolls have polluted social media with gutter-level attacks, including perverse and disrespectful assaults on my own wife. Yet Mr. Ram has not lifted his pen to decry these acts of political barbarism. His silence is deafening.
Even more damning, the WIN party is led by an individual sanctioned by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for money laundering, gold smuggling, tax evasion, and corruption. This is a man branded internationally as a criminal kingpin — the embodiment of lawlessness — yet Mr. Ram, the self-proclaimed custodian of political integrity, has chosen to avert his gaze. Not one word of criticism. Not one word of censure.
Mr. Ram’s selective outrage betrays his bias. To pontificate about “nasty politics” while excusing the party most responsible for degrading our political culture exposes him not as the principled commentator he pretends to be, but as a partisan shield for a disgraced political outfit.
The PPP/C, a party that has withstood decades of political struggle — rebuilding this country from bankruptcy to stability, through the pre-oil era and now into the oil economy — should not subject itself to be lectured by Chris Ram. His credibility collapses under the weight of his silence on WIN’s political thuggery and its controversial leadership entangled in a multiplicity of criminally charged allegations. By choosing one standard for one party and no standard at all for his newfound protégés, he has forfeited any claim to fairness or moral integrity.