Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) presidential candidate, Donald Ramotar plans to talk with party-outcast Moses Nagamootoo about getting him on the campaign trail.

Asked whether he would be bringing the former Information Minister on the 2011 campaign trail, Ramotar said: “For sure, I’ll ask him.”

“Moses is a PPP person and I hope he still is a PPP person and we’ll get together, as a family some time,” said Ramotar who is also the PPP’s General Secretary.

When asked Thursday whether he would entertain such talks, Nagamootoo told demwaves.com “I have no comment.”

Nagamootoo has been side-lined by the Bharrat Jagdeo administration although he had campaigned for the party in 2006. He was awarded a back bench in the National Assembly. Winning the fifth highest number of votes at the PPP’s 2008 Congress did not guarantee him a seat on the party’s Executive Committee.

Ramotar declined to discuss whether he could give the former Local Government Minister any assurances because he has been political jilted in the past.

“We belong to the same family, we are both members of the party. I, off course, know Moses a very, very long time; he the same with me and I think he knows where I can stand, he knows where we can talk about and we will speak and we need not be speaking in public,’ said Ramotar.

Nagamootoo dropped out of the PPP’s presidential candidate race, saying that once there was going to be a contest, the matter should have been taken to ordinary members at county conferences. But now that the other candidates- Clement Rohee, Gail Teixeira, Ralph Ramkarran- have dropped out of the race and Ramotar emerged as the lone person, Nagamootoo has said that move has avoided a political fall-out.

The one-time Local Government Minister is regarded in some quarters as one who is willing to reach across the political divide to govern the country.

However, the PPP’s presidential candidate has hailed the reformed 1980 constitution as good basis for running Guyana. The parliamentary committees, he has said, has helped to involve the opposition in decision-making.