His father was a Hindu Indo-Guyanese whose parents came from India to work on the plantations of Guyana.
[2] His mother was an American Ashkenazi Jew from Chicago who was of Hungarian and Romanian Jewish descent and a supporter of Palestine.
[3] 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).
[citation needed] In 2006, Jagan, joined with Peter Ramsaroop, Paul Hardy and Rupert Roopnarine to form the Guyana Third Force.
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).