Tamil literature protest. MIC is impotent. UMNO rules. No point shooting the MIC mandore messenger?

Tamil literature protest. MIC is impotent. UMNO rules. No point shooting the MIC mandore messenger?

The Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has stated that beginning next year SPM students would only be allowed to take a maximum of ten subjects.

This was today again reaffirmed by the Director General (DG) of the Education Ministry Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom. This is the latest of the UMNO racist and religious extremist policies in hampering the studies of Tamil and Tamil literature.

The DG even had the cheek to say “where such vernacular subjects were taught, (schools) could take the initiative to issue special certificates to students who took school examinations in vernacular subjects, for Form Five school leavers”. (Refer NST 2/12/2009 at page 9). We all know from experience that the UMNO controlled schools would not do so.

Alimuddin told the New Straits Times that these certificates could be produced by students when they wished to apply for jobs requiring proficiency in a vernacular subject.

Even if UMNO reverts to allowing the 12 subjects as earlier, they think they well score political points on a free ride just by taking away the existing Indian students rights, causing anxiety and dissatisfaction and then finally making a grand gesture that the Indian students are allowed to take the said 12 subjects including Tamil and Tamil literature. This is how UMNIO has been cheating the Indians for over the last 52 years.

The sole MIC Minister in the Cabinet can only, like his predecessor Samy Vellu say or do one of the following things (like he has done for the previous 30 years ):-

1. He will raise it at the Cabinet Meeting.

2. He will bring it up with Prime Minister.

3. He will raise it in Parliament.

It is plain and obvious that the MIC has no power to solve even an elementary problem like this though they are supposed to be a senior component party in the UMNO led government.Yhey are totally impotent. Time and again events only confirm this.

In any case they are just mandores. What good does it do to the Indian marginalization cause to shoot the MIC mandore messenger? They are irrelevant.

The protesting Indian NGOs’ should intsead train their aim on the true culprit and get straight to the point and go after UMNO, the DPM and Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and not beat around the bush by bruning Subramaniam’s effigy. It only gets them space in the papers but does little else. Get to the point. Go for the decision makers and policy makers. Go for the Tuan!

P. Uthayakumar.

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