PKR top leader and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, DAP Supremo Lim Kit Siang and PAS President Hadi Awang’s pin drop silence on the issue of especially top Indian students being excluded from being granted JPA Scholarships, Matriculations and Universities places speaks a thousand words.
This can only mean that they support UMNO’s racist, supremacist and segregationist. They have no intention to rectify that if and when they come to power. Higher Education Policy in Malay-sia especially against the poor Malaysian Indian students.
On the Gaza Flotilla issue these PKR, DAP and PAS leaders, visibly excited and energised, on the very first day of this Parliament session on 7/6/10 had rightly supported an UMNO motion on the same.
But that Indians are being excluded and segregated problem by UMNO from the mainstream National Higher Education Policy of Malay-sia for 53 long years has never been seriously opposed by the opposition Leader in Parliament and the top leaders of PAS and DAP. Why? But they all claim to be multi-racial! What multi-racialism is this other than to fish for the Indian votes?
But to divert and dilute from this critical Indian problem Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and Hadi Awang’s political rhetoric is that there are also poor students among the Malay, Orang Asli, Kadazan and Iban. But the issue is not that of being economically poor. The issues is that of being denied entry places even if qualified.
And the reality is 99% of the victims are the poor Indians. The Kadazan and Iban run the whole Sabah and Sarawak state governments to secure their welfare and well being of their people, or are not prepared to take up the higher education opportunities as they may be contented in their ancestral villages and land safety net. The sky is the limit for Malays, Kadazans, Ibans and Orang Asli in education. Is this not so?
The orang asli may be similarly contended and in any event has the Jabatan Orang Asli to take care of their welfare and well being.
Anwar Ibrahim and Hadi Awang keep silent because the Malay muslims are benefitting from this UMNO racist religious extremist and Malay muslim supremacist Education and Higher Education discriminatory policies. So Anwar and Hadi do not care.
Lim Kit Siang keeps silent because most of the Chinese community who control about 70% of the country’s local economy can afford and have avenues to send their children overseas or to the local private universities to persue Higher education. So he and DAP does not care. It is not that big an issue for the Chinese community. It is not critical as it is for the Indians. So their lackadaisical attitude!
The simplest of logical explanation is that in a quota based country a loss to the Indians is a gain for the Malays and Chinese! It is a zero sum game! The MIC and Indian elite pick up the crumbs thrown by UMNO, or are in a position to similarly send their children overseas or to local private universities. So they too do not care about the 99% poor wage earning and the lower middle class Malaysian Indians.
Some middle class and lower middle class Malaysian Indians end up selling their only house or land, utilize their Employees Provident Fund, life savings to fund their children’s higher education. In fact the dying breed of Indian doctors, lawyers, journalists, etc came by their own financing and with no or very little government financial help.
We agree that UMNO’s continuous rule of Malaysia without a break in the chain has to be put to an end at all cost. In the circumstances we are not going to give PKR, DAP or PAS a blank cheque to Putrajaya. We will be the check and balance on PKR, DAP and PAS like how the Liberal Party is to the ruling Conservative Party in Britian
HRP’s Project 15/38 creation of 15 and 38 Indian majority parliamentary and state seats is the only forward.
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