Asgar Ally Explained

Asgar Ally
Office:Minister of Finance
Term Start:1992
Term End:1995
Predecessor:Carl Barrington Greenidge
Successor:Bharrat Jagdeo

Asgar Ally is a former Guyanese politician. He served as Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1995.[1] [2]

He was deputy governor[3] of the Bank of Jamaica prior to returning to Guyana to serve as minister of finance.[4]

He resigned as minister of finance in May 1995 over "political and policy differences" with President Jagan.[5]

Soon after, Ally founded the Guyana Democratic Party,[6] and in July 1996 announced that he would run for president in the 1997 elections. He ran with a coalition of Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD) and the Guyana Labour Party (GLP), but it disbanded after the election.[7]

Ally re-aligned with Jagan and the PPP/C[8] joining again to pledge his support during the 2011 elections.

Notes and References

  1. News: 29 April 2015. Former Finance Minister Asgar Ally throws support behind PPP/C – chastises Greenidge for being main cause behind pre-1992 economic downfall. Guyana Chronicle. 1 March 2021.
  2. News: Bharrat Jagdeo. Caribbean Elections. dead. 1 March 2021. 19 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120119094124/http://www.caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/biography/bios/jagdeo_bharrat.asp.
  3. Web site: BBC News Monitoring Guyana opposition calls for fresh elections. 2021-03-20. news.bbc.co.uk.
  4. Web site: 2020-03-29. Granger should exert authority and ensure recount of ballots – Asgar Ally. 2021-03-20. Stabroek News. en-US.
  5. Griffith. Ivelaw L.. 1997. Political change, democracy, and human rights in Guyana. Third World Quarterly. 18. 277.
  6. Web site: 8 April 1998. Electoral Observation in Guyana 1997. live. General Secretariat of the Organization of American States. 28. https://web.archive.org/web/20150703014230/http://www.oas.org/sap/publications/1997/moe/guyana/pbl_11_1997_eng.pdf . 2015-07-03 .
  7. Web site: Former Finance Minister Asgar Ally joins PPP/C campaign. 2021-03-20. Guyana Chronicle. en-US.
  8. Web site: Chabrol. Denis. 2018-12-24. No "newbies" for PPP presidential candidate; Jagdeo prepared to publicly criticise a PPP president. 2021-03-20. Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana. en-US.

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