The New Straits Times on 3/6/10 at page 22 sub headlines “Select probes 6 month bonus” refers.
The Select Committee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat) questioned the payment of six months bonus to employees of Kumpulan Semesta Sdn Bhd (KSSB) from Sept 2008 to June 2009 when the state-owned sand mining firm was only established in July 2008. (We have been told that Selangor Menteri Besar’s brother is running Kumpulan Semesta, which is being probed by Selcat).
On this very same day Malaysian Indian estate workers of the Bedfort estate in this very same PKR ruled state of Selangor who had worked for up to 30 years are paid a mere 20 days salary and peanuts of RM 500. To add insult to injury this was described as ‘Durian runtuh’ (Windfall).
Which now is durian runtuh – the estate workers or Kumpulan Semesta?
This is how both UMNO and PKR rewards Malaysian Indian estate workers who slogged it out for 30 long years and to the contrary how PKR starts rewarding with a six month bonus from the second month onwards!
Why hasn’t the PKR Selangor state government given out the ten acre land ownership agriculture land plots to these poor and landless Indian rubber tappers as has been given out to 442,000 almost all malay muslim in the Felda, Felcra, Risda, Fama Mardi and thousands more plots in the parallel land schemes by the 13 state governments (BH 25/2/2010 at page 4)? Why not PKR? Why not Prime Minister in waiting Anwar Ibrahim?
But when we point out to these direct discrimination we instead are accused of having a racist agenda by PKR, DAP, PAS, and their supporters.! What a shrewd way to direct away from addressing the problems of the Indian poor and landless.
P. Uthayakumar
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