'Don't blame us for your failure,' says secretary-general Prakash RaoPETALINGJAYA: A top MIC official today chided Hindraf leader P Waythamoorthy for his remarks about the party, saying he was blaming it for his own failure as deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.
MIC Secretary-General A Prakash Rao told FMT his party saw itself as part of a brotherhood in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
Referring to Waythamoorthy’s recent resignation, he said the former deputy minister was too greedy and wanted to handle all government funds meant for the Indian community.
“Waythamoorthy failed to shine as deputy minister because he was a lone ranger,” he said.
“He did not even bother trying to work with MIC since the day he signed the memorandum of understanding with BN. Thus, it is not fair for him to ask MIC to leave BN.”
Yesterday, Waythamoorthy challenged MIC to leave BN, accusing it of acting as a propaganda mouthpiece for the government and ignoring issues affecting the Indian community.
In a press statement, the Hindraf chief said MIC was founded to protect the rights of Malaysian Indians, who were then mostly plantation workers, but had failed to do so.
Prakash Rao rejected the accusations. “MIC is more focused on finding solutions to our community’s problems through BN consensus,” he said. “We prefer to fight from inside to find solutions then fight from outside.”
He added that MIC had managed, through the years, to benefit the Indian community through educational and economic programmes.
He also said Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and MIC president G Palanivel had been working closely in the past three years to finding fast-track solutions to uplift Indians economically.
“Our priority is to uplift the Indians to be on par with national development,” he said.
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