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Jagan and feared
But he merged his party PRAJA RAJYAM in congress on 6 February 2011 after two weeks of back talks with Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Indian National Congress, which feared the no confidence motion in the state assembly in the wake of the emergence of Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress and the stronghold of Telangana agitation.

Jagan and PPP
In 1955 Jagan and Burnham formed rival wings of the PPP.
In April 1975, the PPP ended its boycott of parliament with Jagan stating that the PPP's policy would change from noncooperation and civil resistance to critical support of the Burnham regime.
Cheddi Jagan of the PPP was elected and sworn in as President on October 9, 1992, reversing the monopoly Afro-Guyanese traditionally had over Guyanese politics.
In British Guiana, the leftist People's Progressive Party ( PPP ) candidate Cheddi Jagan won the position of chief minister in a colonially administered election in 1953, but was quickly forced to resign from power after Britain's suspension of the still-dependent nation's constitution.
Embarrassed by the landslide electoral victory of Jagan's allegedly Marxist party, the British imprisoned the PPP's leadership and maneuvered the organization into a divisive rupture in 1955, engineering a split between Jagan and his PPP colleagues.
On January 1, 1950, the People's Progressive Party ( PPP ) was founded, with Jagan as its Leader, Forbes Burnham as its Chairman and Jagan's wife Janet as its Secretary.
After a PPP victory in the August 1961 election, Jagan became Chief Minister for a second time, serving for three years.
After 28 years in opposition, he and the PPP won the October 5, 1992 election with about 54 % of the vote, and Jagan became President.
He first became Prime Minister under Cheddi Jagan in 1992, following the October 1992 election, which was won by an alliance of the People's Progressive Party ( PPP ) and Hinds ' group, Civic.
Benn accepted President Dr. Jagan ’ s offer to be on the PPP ’ s list of candidates and won a seat in Parliament.
Jagan was the presidential candidate of the PPP in the December 1997 election.
Despite her resignation, Jagan remained active in the PPP.
Burnham was one of the principal founders of the People's Progressive Party ( PPP ), which was launched on January 1, 1950 ; the Indo-Guyanese labor leader Cheddi Jagan became PPP Leader, while Burnham became its Chairman.
In 1955, there was a split in the PPP between Burnham and Jagan.
In the 1992 election, in which the PPP under Cheddi Jagan won power for first time in decades, Ramotar was elected to the National Assembly of Guyana ; he was continuously re-elected thereafter.

Jagan and general
Janet Jagan unsuccessfully ran for a seat from Central Georgetown in the 1947 general election.

Jagan and elections
The new party's first victory came in the 1950 municipal elections, in which Janet Jagan won a seat.
Following the 1957 elections, Jagan rapidly consolidated his hold on the Indo-Guyanese community.
Jagan again won the colonial elections in 1957 and 1961 ; despite Britain's shift to a reconsideration of its view of the left-wing Jagan as a Soviet-style communist at this time, the United States pressured the British to withhold Guyana's independence until an alternative to Jagan could be identified, supported, and brought into office.
Jagan and Vijayamma contested the elections on behalf of the newly formed YSR Congress Party.
It went on to win the 1953 elections and Cheddi Jagan became Prime Minister.

Jagan and 1964
From 1961 to 1964, Jagan was confronted with a destabilization campaign conducted by the PNC and UF.
Cheddi Berret Jagan ( March 22, 1918 – March 6, 1997 ) was a Guyanese politician who was first elected Chief Minister in 1953 and later Premier of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964, prior to independence.
This program funneled around a million dollars British Guiana between 1957 and 1964 for the purpose of supporting Forbes Burnham over Cheddi Jagan.

Jagan and .
Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.
South of Georgetown the primary road is the East Bank Demerara Road, a two-lane road that runs from Georgetown to Timehri, where the Cheddi Jagan International Airport-Timehri ( CJIAT ) is located.
Several local airlines depart from both Ogle Airport on the East Coast Demerara, south-east of Georgetown and from Cheddi Jagan International Airport, at Timehri, south-west of Georgetown.
President Cheddi Jagan was committed to democracy, adopted more free market policies, and pursued sustainable development for Guyana's environment.
* 1918 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanan politician ( d. 1997 )
* March 22 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana ( d. 1997 )
** The President of Guyana, Cheddi Jagan, dies in office.
** Janet Jagan the former wife of Cheddi Jagan took office in Guyana.
Guyana's international airport, Cheddi Jagan International Airport, an hour south of Georgetown is a destination for Caribbean Airlines ( the airline formerly known as BWIA or "" bwee ""), Delta Air Lines, LIAT, META, and Travel Span GT.
The Cheddi Jagan International Airport acts as the air transportation hub of the city, which is located on the right bank of the Demerara River, 41 kilometres south of Georgetown.
Georgetown is served by the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, 41 km south of the city.
These years also saw the beginning of a long and acrimonious struggle between the country's two dominant political personalities — Cheddi Jagan and Linden Forbes Burnham.
Jagan had been born in Guyana in 1918.
Despite their poor background, the senior Jagan sent his son to Queen's College in Georgetown.
After his education there, Jagan went to the United States to study dentistry, graduating from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1942.
Jagan returned to British Guiana in October 1943 and was soon joined by his American wife, the former Janet Rosenberg, who was to play a significant role in her new country's political development.
Although Jagan established his own dentistry clinic, he was soon enmeshed in politics.
After a number of unsuccessful forays into Guiana's political life, Jagan became treasurer of the Manpower Citizens Association ( MPCA ) in 1945.
Despite his departure from the MPCA a year after joining, the position allowed Jagan to meet other union leaders in British Guiana and throughout the English-speaking Caribbean.
Although not exposed to childhood poverty as was Jagan, Burnham was acutely aware of racial discrimination.
Jagan won a seat and briefly joined the Labour Party.
The Labour Party's lack of a clear-cut reform agenda left a vacuum, which Jagan rapidly moved to fill.
Using the PAC as a foundation, Jagan created from it a new party that drew support from both the Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese communities.
Jagan became the leader of the PPP's parliamentary group, and Burnham assumed the responsibilities of party chairman.

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