Kamalanathan is Umno’s mandore, says Hindraf

By B Nantha Kumar (http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/
KUALA LUMPUR: Human Rights Party (HRP) has written off fresh faced Hulu Selangor MP Kamalanathan as “Umno’s mandore”.
Its information chief S Jayathas said: “We’re not pining any hope on Kamalanathan.
“Kamalanathan is just another ‘mandore’ who will work for his boss Umno,” he said.
He added that HRP was confident that Kamalanathan will not raise issues related to the community’s woes in Parliament.
“We are sure Kamalanathan will never bring up the discrimination suffered by the Indian community in Parliament,” he told FMT.
He said although the Indian community had high hopes in him, his loyalty lay Umno and not with the Hulu Selangor voters.
“We believe Kamalanathan will not be able to solve the Indian community’s fundamental problems, “Take their welfare problem: more than half of the Indian families in Hulu Selangor are poor.
“What drastic action will Kamalanathan take to eliminate their poverty?” Jayathas asked.
He added that nothing would change as Umno would continue to cheat the Indian minority.
“Kamalanathan is nice but he is also the same as his party boss S Samy Vellu (MIC president) who bows to Umno,” he said.
On Kalamanathan’s comment that Hindraf is dead, Jayathas said: “Kamalanathan should admit that the reason PKR failed was because Hindraf did not campaign in Hulu Selangor.
“If it had campaigned, the Indian votes would surely have gone to PKR’s candidate Zaid Ibrahim,” he said.
BN’s Kamalanathan beat Zaid by a 1,725 vote majority in last Sunday’s by-election.
Hindraf had declined to campaign for Pakatan, claiming that the party had failed to fulfil its commitment to the Indian community in these states since it came into power in 2008.
Despite several attempts to lure Hindraf, it refused to enter the fray, saying it would only help if the Selangor Pakatan government agreed to give all 98 Tamil schools in the state freehold land.