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Malaysia 101: MIC Former President Samy Vellu & Ugly Case of MAIKA (1936 – 2022)

One cannot forget the many funny quotes uttered by the late Tun Samy Vellu who was the late minister under Dr M’s cabinet handling 2 main portfolios covering public works, energy, telecommunication and post and who was also the long-serving president of the Malaysian India Congress (MIC). Image source: Wikipedia (more…)

#Semasa: Petisyen tersebut dilancarkan pada 17 November lalu oleh Gerakan Pengundi Sedar (GPS) menerusi tandatangan atas talian Change.Org. @jpmgov_ @PDRMsia #WaythaMoorthy #Petisyen #AirTimes

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 Dis – Sebanyak 215,706 tandatangan petisyen setakat pukul 5 petang semalam telah diperolehi bagi menuntut pelucutan jawatan P. Waytha Moorthy sebagai Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri dan Senator.

Memetik laporan portal Utusan Online, petisyen tersebut dilancarkan pada 17 November lalu oleh Gerakan Pengundi Sedar (GPS) menerusi tandatangan atas talian Change.Org.

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Snippets – 21 September 2017

(We all are friends when your enemy is also my enemy. Pakatan Harapan in place of Pakatan Rakyat – they are better organised and led by experienced people in the political area but will they stick together when their individual objective clashes? Image source: The Malaysian Insight)

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Hindraf mohon Sultan Perak hentikan Mufti

Mufti Perak, Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria didakwa tidak menahan  dirinya kepada sebab-sebab mengapa beliau dilantik sebagai mufti dan lebih berminat untuk bermain politik dengan isu-isu sensitif merujuk kepada pemansuhan sekolah vernakular.

Laporan Free Malaysia Today

KUALA LUMPUR: Hindraf Makkal Sakthi, the ad hoc apolitical human rights NGO working across the political divide, has appealed to the Sultan of Perak to remove the state Mufti on the grounds that the latter has crossed the line and brought his position into public disrepute and public contempt. “Since he’s not confining himself to the reasons why he was appointed, and was more interested in playing politics with sensitive issues, he should be removed.”

“We are of the opinion that he’s not fit to hold the office of Mufti of Perak and should be removed from office to protect and uphold the principles of peaceful co-existence among the various ethnic groups in the country,” said Hindraf Perak Secretary Chandrasegaran Subramaniam.

He was giving details on a letter that Hindraf had sent to the Perak Sultan on the matter.

Hindraf was bringing the Mufti’s “irresponsible and senseless statement on vernacular schools” to the attention of the Sultan.

The Mufti, in his statement, urged Putrajaya to abolish vernacular school on the grounds that it would reduce inter-ethnic hostility and conflict. “This is a statement which has long been recycled for political mileage,” said Chandrasegaran. “Any productive measures should be based on the concept of integration rather than assimilation.”

His statement was totally unsubstantiated, added the Hindraf Perak Secretary, with possible malicious intent to instigate ill-feeling among the people. “Such careless and insidious statements will in general create anxiety, fear, distrust and misunderstanding.”

The Hindraf Perak statement stressed that Malaysia was a nation of many multis and this should be seen as a source of strength rather than weakness. “Discrimination and policies that promote assimilation should be rejected.” – FMT

Laporan The Malaysian Insider:

Pemansuhan sekolah vernakular mampu mengurangkan masalah perbalahan kaum di Malaysia, kata Mufti Perak Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria, lapor Sinar Harian.

Menurut akhbar berbahasa Melayu itu, Harussani menegaskan cadangan tersebut sudah dibawa kepada Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan menteri kabinet yang lain.

Bagaimanapun katanya, disebabkan kaum lain meminta agar perkara itu ditangguhkan, sehingga kini sekolah-sekolah tersebut masih beroperasi.

“Yang jadi masalah, saya sudah tegur daripada dulu, saya sudah jumpa PM dan menteri semua. Saya kata, masa kemerdekaan dulu, perjanjiannya hanya satu sekolah kebangsaan.

“Sekolah Cina akan ditutup dalam masa 6 bulan, sekolah India juga akan ditutup dalam masa 6 bulan. Semua bersetuju pada masa itu. Tetapi kerana Cina minta tangguh, kita pun kata ya, ya sampai sekarang,” katanya kepada Sinar Harian.

Harussani berkata, sekiranya hanya ada satu sekolah, masyarakat bukan Melayu di Malaysia akan menjadi seperti di Indonesia dan Thailand yang bertutur menggunakan bahasa kebangsaan.

Beliau turut mengambil contoh senario yang berlaku di Singapura, pembubaran sekolah Melayu dan Cina menyebabkan peradaban rakyat di sana lebih baik berbanding Malaysia.

“Di Singapura hanya ada satu sekolah iaitu Inggeris. Sekarang mereka sudah tiada beza, fikiran mereka juga sama sebab itu ada hormat-menghormati.

“Cuma di sana, nampak Melayu diketepikan apabila mereka meminta kerja. Biasanya mereka memilih orang yang berkelulusan lebih tinggi dan lazimnya Cina yang lebih tinggi akademiknya,” katanya kepada akhbar itu.

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Najib janji kosong - Hindraf

Barisan Bertindak Hak Asasi Hindu (Hindraf) mendakwa kerajaan berbohong berhubung kenyataannya telah membelanjakan RM2.8 bilion bagi membantu memperbaiki taraf hidup penduduk kaum India di antara tahun 2012 hingga 2014.

Tuduhan itu dibuat Pengerusinya, P. Waytha Moorthy ketika mengulas kenyataan Ketua Setiausaha Perbendaharaan Negara Tan Sri Irwan Serigar Abdullah.

Dalam temuramahnya dengan sebuah akhbar berbahasa Tamil, Irwan dipetik sebagai berkata, kerajaan telah bersetuju dengan Hindraf pada April 2013 untuk melaksanakan dasar baru bagi membantu masyarakat India Malaysia.

Menurut Moorthy, apabila Perdana Menteri bersetuju melantiknya sebagai timbalan menteri pada 2013, Najib telah berjanji membentuk satu unit baru dalam kerajaan yang akan membuat dasar dan program ekonomi khusus kepada penempatan 800,000 pekerja estet.

Beliau juga dikatakan berjanji untuk mengatasi masalah penempatan semula kuil Hindu, soal kerakyatan, pendidikan dan peluang pekerjaan kepada masyarakat India yang miskin.

““Dalam bajet tahunan yang dianggarkan RM 2.5 bilion seperti yang dipersetujui, tetapi tidak ditunaikan”, kata Waytha Moorthy.

Dakwanya, dia telah diajak oleh Najib untuk menyertai kabinet sebagai sebahagian rancangan kerajaan untuk menghapuskan pengaruh kuat Hindraf ke atas kaum India di negara ini.

Sebelum itu sokongan kaum berkenaan terhadap Barisan Nasional (BN) khususnya MIC terhakis teruk dan ia telah memberi kemenangan besar kepada Pakatan Rakyat (PR) dalam dua Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) iaitu pada 2008 dan 2013.

Waytha Moorthy yang berhenti dari kabinet selepas 8 bulan dilantik berkata, kepimpinan Najib bukan sahaja telah kehilangan sokongan daripada orang Melayu, tetapi telah hilang kepercayaan daripada seluruh masyarakat India di negara ini.  – Read more Free Malaysia Today

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Hindraf urges Nazri to use his power to declare 110-year-old ashram a heritage site

KUALA LUMPUR, March 24, 2015:

Hindraf is demanding Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz exercise his ministerial powers to declare the 110-year-old Vivekananda Ashram a heritage site just as he had promised.

The Hindu rights organisation chairman P. Waytha Moorthy urged the Tourism and Culture Minister to “walk his talk” by declaring the site a national heritage under Section 67(1) of the National Heritage Act.

“Section 67(1) of the NHA 2005 clearly states that the minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare any heritage site, heritage object, underwater cultural heritage listed in the Register or any living person as a National Heritage.

“The Swami Vivekananda Ashram clearly falls within category (a) – (f) of section 2 of the clause 67 in making such a declaration,” he said in a press statement today.

Adding that the minister has “wide power” under Section 3 of the NHA 2005 in regards to policies and directive in relation to National Heritage, Waytha said the board of trustees had objected the gazetting of the ashram as a heritage site.

The recent objection by the trustee on the gazetting of the Ashram as a heritage, the former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said, was expected as they had done the same in 2008.

“The decision by the trustees to redevelop the site for commercial purpose is on the pretext of channelling more funds for the organisation’s use should be rejected outright as the necessity to protect a heritage building outweighs benefits derived from commercial ventures.”

On Jan 16 this year, MIC Youth had confirmed that the ashram, which was once feared would be partly torn down for development, would be gazetted as a heritage site.

Waytha said the minister should “act without delay to avoid causing unnecessary anxiety to the public” as it appeared that the trustee were not acting in accordance with public interest in safeguarding the Swami Vivekananda Ashram.

Nazri had on Nov 4, 2014, during his visit to the location, had stated that any building or artefact that is more than 100 years old is deemed as a national heritage.

The Vivekananda Ashram in Brickfields made the news last year after it was learnt that the building, located on private land‎, was supposed to have been redeveloped into a high-rise residential complex.

This subsequently led to the formation of the ‪“Save Vivekananda Ashram” Action Committee, a coalition of 50 non-governmental organisations, including the MIC and Hindraf, who opposed the development.

Kuala Lumpur Mayor Datuk Seri Ahmad Phesal Talib was reported on Jan 15 as saying that the site now was expected to be a gazetted heritage site.

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Hindraf's class action suit against UK government begins March 30

KUALA LUMPUR, March 21, 2015:

The Hindu Rights Action Force’s (Hindraf) class action suit against the British government for negligence against the Indian community in then Malaya is set to begin on March 30 at the London High Court.

Its national adviser, N. Ganesan said the suit which was re-filed on July 2, 2012 took into account the British government for its role in the current marginalised socio-economic status of the Indian community in Malaysia.

“Our detractors in both the coalition political parties should now recall all they had uttered in the interim about this suit and about roles and eat all of that,” Ganesan said in a press conference held today.

Adding that the pro-Indian organisation is committed in bringing about changes of the Indian communities’ poor and marginalised, Ganesan said Hindraf would be represented by one of UK’s leading law firm, Imran Khan & Partners.

He, however, declined to elaborate on the amount the suit cost but stressed that fund was collected through personal efforts by Hindraf members.

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IGP and police selective and prejudiced, claims Hindraf

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18, 2015: Hindraf is frustrated that the police have not acted on the several police reports made by the father of 14-year-old G. Thiyagguru on the attempted suicide by his son for fear of being held by Islamic religious authorities by force.

Thiyagguru’s father has made several police reports alleging kidnapping and the forced conversion of son who was traumatised and led him to attempt suicide.

“We fail to see why the police has not initiated any investigation nor taken any statement from the minor who might lose his life or his father over the forceful detention by the Religious Department based on the instruction of two national school teachers while the boy was still in the school.

“To date we have information that none of the teachers or officials of the relevant Islamic authorities involved in the forceful detention have even been questioned or taken into custody bearing the seriousness of the offence against a minor,” said Hindraf chairman P. Waytha Moorthy.

“Is the police waiting for the boy to lose his life first before initiating a sham investigation? It looks obvious the police are deliberately not willing to obtain a dying declaration from the boy.

“This inaction by the police is clear evidence that the police is institutionally racist and condoning religious extremism,” he said.

“The conduct of the teachers who were in cohorts with the Negri Sembilan religious authority and their action of placing the child under false imprisonment to force him to convert to Islam without the permission of the father is nothing short of kidnapping which is a serious offence that warrants an immediate arrest and remand.

“Although the constitution provides for equality in law under Article 8, it appears that the police inaction is deliberate and appears to be condoning these religious extreme zealots.

“We strongly call up the Home Minister to intervene immediately to act as the Inspector-General of Police and the police is selective and prejudiced racially in exercising their executive power under the constitution.