There is a clear, coordinated effort to weaken the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP-C), organized by elements aligned with APNU and WIN. The main goal of this campaign is to promote the idea of a minority PPP-C government, despite the strong support the ruling party continues to have nationwide.
The attack has originated from four main sources: first, a major national newspaper that has consistently published anti-PPP narratives; second, a resident of New York who previously attempted to create a political party that would sell out Guyana’s sovereignty but was decisively rejected by the Guyanese people and pushed into political obscurity; third, an alleged group of University of Guyana (UG) students whose identities are still unconfirmed; and finally, an anonymous, ambiguous letter writer who cannot be positively identified.
Before proceeding, I should outline my credentials. I hold a PhD in political science, served as a full professor at American University in Washington, DC, and have lectured and participated in academic forums at 37 universities across 22 countries. I am widely published in political science and foreign affairs. From this vantage point, I can confidently state that the so-called “scientific poll” being promoted by Vishnu Bisram is a fabrication.
A careful reading of Bisram’s letter in Kaieteur News (8/28/2025) shows that it is not a serious piece of scholarship, but rather a collection of innuendos, biased speculation, and basic errors—mistakes that even the most inexperienced propagandist would steer clear of. Consider the following:
The poll is claimed to have been conducted by UG students, but Bisram provides no individual names or the name of any group. Senior UG officials I contacted are unaware of such a team.
According to Bisram himself, polling isn’t taught at UG—or anywhere else in Guyana. So how could these supposed students have learned survey methodology?
Polls are always linked to specific timeframes; yet, Bisram himself admits that he does not know when these polls were taken.
Even more revealing, Bisram admits he has never seen the actual results. Instead, he relies on a letter written by a mysterious figure named Khemraj Harryram (Media, August 27, 2025), a person unknown to the political or academic community.
The contradictions are apparent. Bisram claims he does not know how the poll was conducted, yet he praises the unnamed students, saying, “The UG students are lauded for their field work.” This is mostly guesswork, and at worst, it is an intentional misrepresentation. Additionally, while true analysts stay neutral, Bisram even praises the supposed “courage” of letter writer Harryram—an absurd statement for anyone with knowledge of intelligence or political analysis.
Harryram’s letter, meanwhile, reads more like fiction than fact. His so-called “Preliminary Interpretation of the Results” is revealing: two of his four points focus solely on the rise of WIN. This is a classic push-polling tactic, aimed not at measuring opinion but at shaping it—if, indeed, any polling was conducted at all.
From a political science perspective, it is evident that the Bisram-Harryram narrative is part of a larger plan to create the illusion of a weakened PPP-C and to generate legitimacy for the opposition. However, as history has demonstrated, such strategies seldom succeed.
Mr. Bisram has been promoting his minority government theory in various forms for several months. It is a recycled argument dressed up in pseudo-scientific polling language, but one that falls apart even under modest scrutiny.
My own analysis is simple: President Irfaan Ali will not only win a second term, but the PPP-C will also be reelected with a clear and strong mandate to govern in the best interests of the Guyanese people. The coordinated attack against the PPP-C is likely to fail.
Regarding the Bisram-Harryram gambit, I will borrow a well-known phrase: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.