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Joey Jagan
Personal details
BornCheddi Jagan Jr.
Political partyPeople's National Congress Party/Granger Fraction
Other political
affiliations
  • Unity Party of Guyana
  • Guyana Third Force
Children1
Parents
RelativesSuzanne Wasserman (cousin)
OccupationDentist, politician
Nickname(s)Joey Jagan
Cheddi Jagan II

Cheddi "Joey" Jagan Jr. is a dentist and a politician in Guyana.

Early life and family

Jagan is the son of two past Guyanese Presidents, Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan. His father was a Hindu Indo-Guyanese whose parents came from India to work on the plantations of Guyana. His mother was an American Ashkenazi Jew from Chicago who was of Hungarian and Romanian Jewish descent and a supporter of Palestine. He has a sister, Nadira Jagan-Brancier.

Political activity

In politics, he is the co-founder of the Unity Party of Guyana, a pro-capitalist party seeking to bring more foreign investment to Guyana (which made him an opposite to his parents, who were socialists).

In 2006, Jagan, joined with Peter Ramsaroop, Paul Hardy and Rupert Roopnarine to form the Guyana Third Force. In 2011, Jagan returned to the party of his father, the People's Progressive Party (PPP), having previously been a leading critic of it, along with Ramsaroop, the leader of Vision Guyana. Joey Jagan subsequently joined with People's National Congress and campaigned vigorously for their eventual victory in the Presidential election (a political/social organization in Guyana).

Personal life

Jagan's son is Cheddi B. Jagan II, is a supporter of the People's National Congress Party APNU.

Notes

  1. ^ KNEWS (25 October 2011). "Joey Jagan returns to PPP/C fold". Kaieteur News. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  2. "The Jewish Roots of Former President of Guyana Janet Rosenberg Jagan". Guyanaca.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2007.
  3. ^ "An Appreciation of Dr. Cheddi Jagan". Guyana.org. Indo Caribbean World. 12 March 1997. Retrieved 11 June 2015.

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