Hulu S’gor: UMNO proved winnability is not race based, whereas PKR failed the multi-racial test
Malay (UMNO) voters gave solid support to the Indian MIC candidate.
Barisan Nasional’s victory yesterday was achieved on the back of strong backing from Malay voters who make up 52.7 percent or 34,323 out of the 65,058 registered voters.(NST 26/4/2010 at page 2).
We left Parti Keadilan in 1999 because there was no keadilan (justice) for especially the poor and underprivileged Indians. Be that as it may, it had never even crossed our minds to support UMNO/BN. In fact our final analysis is that the main reason for the current critical Indian problems and the day to day mysery of the Indians to the point of “scoring” the highest suicide rate in Malaysia (to the tune of 600% above the suicide rate in the Malay community) is because of poverty and poverty related, is because UMNO has been continuously ruling Malaysia without a break in the chain. Our position is we want a break in this 53 year rule of Malaysia by UMNO.
But again we are no political novices to give the supposed “multi-racial” PKR, DAP and PAS a carta blanc to provide representation to especially the poor and underprivileged Indians.
We do not trust PKR, DAP and PAS as their multi-racialism is only in theory and not in practice. Even PKR, DAP and PAS’ 11 Indian MPs and leaders are made merely functionary mandores, ala 53 year old MIC mandores like in the UMNO & MIC axis mandorism, prevails in PKR, DAP and PAS. The latest tip of the iceberg example is the Ascot Estate Tamil School which has been denied water and electricity for fifty long years.
(Tamil Nesan 20/4/2010 at page 16). Tamil school denied water and electricity for 50 years.
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Imagine the students being forced to study in dark sweaty and uncondusive conditions. The toilet stench and unhygienic learning conditions they have to put up with. And the cheek the UMNO’s MIC mandore Deputy Minister had to pose for a photograph posing with the other mandores and mandoresses by switching on the lights to the said Tamil School.
While UMNO is the cause of these 53 year old atrocities by commission, PSR DAP and PAS watched silently this “blood selling” and are guilty at least by omission.
In fact in this instance PKR, DAP and PAS are more blameworthy than UMNO as Hindraf had given the political directions and in fact embarked on an aggressive campaign for PKR, DAP and even PAS in the 2008 general elections without even demanding for a single Indian MP or ADUN seat. Our support was unconditional, unequivocal and unreserved because we were promised change by the PKR, DAP and PAS top leaders. We delivered the votes!
But it is over two years today since PKR, DAP and PAS have come to power but their rule of Selangor, Penang and Kedah has only been about the same as the 53 year old UMNO rule.
It is also plain and obvious here that PKR is a political opportunist which only wants to be a taker and never intended to be a giver. From this it is plainly clear that PKR, DAP and PAS has no intentions of solving even the very basic necessity elementary and critical Indian problems. When they refuse to do what they are already empowered to do especially for the Indians in Selangor, Penang and Perak, they are not going to reciprocate when they get to Putrajaya.
To quote a Tamil proverb, a growing bean will show at the very beginning. (One does not need to wait and see the tree.)
Going by the aforesaid Ascot Estate Tamil school, the PKR led Selangor state government like their UMNO predecessors, has refused to grant state land to this Escot school and a total of 98 Tamil schools in Selangor which could be done merely by the stroke of the pen of the Tuan Selangor PKR Menteri Besar. This act would have forced the UMNO Federal government to grant fully financial aid status to this Ascot Tamil School and which would have existed like any other Malay, Islamic, Chinese, Orang Asli or native school.
Prey tell us one Malay Chinese, Orang Asli or native school in Malaysia that has been denied water and electricity for 50 long years! How can this happen in Malaysia, the wealthy and prosperous country with the world’s tallest twin towers? PKR even rejected our olive branch offer to help out in the Hulu Selangor by elections on the only pre-condition that all 98 Tamil schools are granted land by the PKR Selangor state government and an end to mandorism and mandore politics, and that we prepared to put aside momentarily all our other scores of critical Indian problems in Selangor.
Why did Anwar Ibrahim reject this proposal? If he cannot deliver even one of our requests, how is he going to deliver the dozens of critical Indian basic necessity problems. Where is the change Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and Hadi Awang promised?
Having said this we have to however acknowledge that UMNO had proven that winnability is not race based. UMNO had resisted to bite PKR’s racist bait prompting to UMNO to file a Malay candidate for Hulu Selangor. UMNO had bent backwards to take the political risk and had only nominated an Indian candidate and UMNO took charge of the whole election machinery thus ensuring that a majority of the Malays had voted for the Indian candidate.
But to the contrary this is the fourth time in eleven years since 2000 where a traditional Indian seat beginning from Teluk Kemang, Lunas, Ijok and now the Hulu Selangor had been snatched away and given to a PKR Malay candidate, because of the winnability of the candidate, ie., a Malay candidate has the best chances of winning. Who now is more racist? UMNO or PKR? PKR has obviously failed the multi-racial test here.
As it stands it remains crystal clear that PKR, DAP and PAS like UMNO only wants the Indian votes, not their basic necessity and elementary problems.
The writing on the wall, the latest being the Hulu Selangor by elections, is indeed very clear, ie., both UMNO or PKR, DAP and PAS are not interested in the Indian problems. And that we have to bend and save ourselves. (S.O.S)
Thus HRP’s political empowerment strategy is creating 15 and 35 Indian majority parliament and state seats respectively, representing the seven frontline states in Malaysia to champion without fear or favour, also the critical Indian problems which UMNO, PKR, DAP and PAS has abandoned.
P.Uthayakumar
UMNO menafikan bekalan air dan elektrik kepada Sekolah Tamil selama 50 tahun.
Malay (UMNO) voters gave solid support to the Indian MIC candidate.
Barisan Nasional’s victory yesterday was achieved on the back of strong backing from Malay voters who make up 52.7 percent or 34,323 out of the 65,058 registered voters.(NST 26/4/2010 at page 2).We left Parti Keadilan in 1999 because there was no keadilan (justice) for especially the poor and underprivileged Indians. Be that as it may, it had never even crossed our minds to support UMNO/BN. In fact our final analysis is that the main reason for the current critical Indian problems and the day to day mysery of the Indians to the point of “scoring” the highest suicide rate in Malaysia (to the tune of 600% above the suicide rate in the Malay community) is because of poverty and poverty related, is because UMNO has been continuously ruling Malaysia without a break in the chain. Our position is we want a break in this 53 year rule of Malaysia by UMNO.
But again we are no political novices to give the supposed “multi-racial” PKR, DAP and PAS a carta blanc to provide representation to especially the poor and underprivileged Indians.
We do not trust PKR, DAP and PAS as their multi-racialism is only in theory and not in practice. Even PKR, DAP and PAS’ 11 Indian MPs and leaders are made merely functionary mandores, ala 53 year old MIC mandores like in the UMNO & MIC axis mandorism, prevails in PKR, DAP and PAS. The latest tip of the iceberg example is the Ascot Estate Tamil School which has been denied water and electricity for fifty long years.
(Tamil Nesan 20/4/2010 at page 16). Tamil school denied water and electricity for 50 years.
.
Imagine the students being forced to study in dark sweaty and uncondusive conditions. The toilet stench and unhygienic learning conditions they have to put up with. And the cheek the UMNO’s MIC mandore Deputy Minister had to pose for a photograph posing with the other mandores and mandoresses by switching on the lights to the said Tamil School.
While UMNO is the cause of these 53 year old atrocities by commission, PSR DAP and PAS watched silently this “blood selling” and are guilty at least by omission.
In fact in this instance PKR, DAP and PAS are more blameworthy than UMNO as Hindraf had given the political directions and in fact embarked on an aggressive campaign for PKR, DAP and even PAS in the 2008 general elections without even demanding for a single Indian MP or ADUN seat. Our support was unconditional, unequivocal and unreserved because we were promised change by the PKR, DAP and PAS top leaders. We delivered the votes!
But it is over two years today since PKR, DAP and PAS have come to power but their rule of Selangor, Penang and Kedah has only been about the same as the 53 year old UMNO rule.
It is also plain and obvious here that PKR is a political opportunist which only wants to be a taker and never intended to be a giver. From this it is plainly clear that PKR, DAP and PAS has no intentions of solving even the very basic necessity elementary and critical Indian problems. When they refuse to do what they are already empowered to do especially for the Indians in Selangor, Penang and Perak, they are not going to reciprocate when they get to Putrajaya.
To quote a Tamil proverb, a growing bean will show at the very beginning. (One does not need to wait and see the tree.)
Going by the aforesaid Ascot Estate Tamil school, the PKR led Selangor state government like their UMNO predecessors, has refused to grant state land to this Escot school and a total of 98 Tamil schools in Selangor which could be done merely by the stroke of the pen of the Tuan Selangor PKR Menteri Besar. This act would have forced the UMNO Federal government to grant fully financial aid status to this Ascot Tamil School and which would have existed like any other Malay, Islamic, Chinese, Orang Asli or native school.
Prey tell us one Malay Chinese, Orang Asli or native school in Malaysia that has been denied water and electricity for 50 long years! How can this happen in Malaysia, the wealthy and prosperous country with the world’s tallest twin towers? PKR even rejected our olive branch offer to help out in the Hulu Selangor by elections on the only pre-condition that all 98 Tamil schools are granted land by the PKR Selangor state government and an end to mandorism and mandore politics, and that we prepared to put aside momentarily all our other scores of critical Indian problems in Selangor.
Why did Anwar Ibrahim reject this proposal? If he cannot deliver even one of our requests, how is he going to deliver the dozens of critical Indian basic necessity problems. Where is the change Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and Hadi Awang promised?
Having said this we have to however acknowledge that UMNO had proven that winnability is not race based. UMNO had resisted to bite PKR’s racist bait prompting to UMNO to file a Malay candidate for Hulu Selangor. UMNO had bent backwards to take the political risk and had only nominated an Indian candidate and UMNO took charge of the whole election machinery thus ensuring that a majority of the Malays had voted for the Indian candidate.
But to the contrary this is the fourth time in eleven years since 2000 where a traditional Indian seat beginning from Teluk Kemang, Lunas, Ijok and now the Hulu Selangor had been snatched away and given to a PKR Malay candidate, because of the winnability of the candidate, ie., a Malay candidate has the best chances of winning. Who now is more racist? UMNO or PKR? PKR has obviously failed the multi-racial test here.
As it stands it remains crystal clear that PKR, DAP and PAS like UMNO only wants the Indian votes, not their basic necessity and elementary problems.
The writing on the wall, the latest being the Hulu Selangor by elections, is indeed very clear, ie., both UMNO or PKR, DAP and PAS are not interested in the Indian problems. And that we have to bend and save ourselves. (S.O.S)
Thus HRP’s political empowerment strategy is creating 15 and 35 Indian majority parliament and state seats respectively, representing the seven frontline states in Malaysia to champion without fear or favour, also the critical Indian problems which UMNO, PKR, DAP and PAS has abandoned.
P.Uthayakumar
UMNO menafikan bekalan air dan elektrik kepada Sekolah Tamil selama 50 tahun.
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