The following is another fact. MIC plays the intermediary, to contain the anger felt ( and rightfully so) by the parents of these students who have been denied their entitlements. MIC Ministers tell the parents to appeal the denials and that they will bring the matter up with ” the PM or at the Cabinet meeting” (standard MIC/UMNO approach to effectively skirt the problem).
The following is yet another fact. A few days later all those who appealed get their replies – most are still rejected, a few of them get accepted.
Now see the niat in this.
The number of Indian students who get these entitlements from the Government are miniscule to start with. The Government will not release any statistics on this as it will be explosive.This is official UMNO policy.
Even those few that get these entitlements, are not given it all in one go – for there will be nothing left to use to make it look like the Government is a responsive Government ( an illusion they so badly need to create) or that MIC makes any difference being in the Government( another illusion they badly need to maintain).
So after the first results are out, MIC comes out to play and asks the students and parents to appeal and promises they will intervene on their behalf. Then a few more Indian students get their appeals accepted. MIC announces triumphantly that because of their intervention they were able to get even these few more accepted. End of story for the season.
Now here are some questions for you all to ponder over:-
1) Why does the MOE/UMNO government reject the applications in the first place and then require the students to appeal the decision. What is the new information available in their appeals?
2) Why do we not see any corresponding number of appeals from the top performing Malays students?
3) Why does this same scenario (of rejection then appeal and then a few more accepted) – happen year after year?
4) Why does the Government not become transparent about the selection process?
5) What is really happening behind the scenes – JPA, UPU, MOE, PM, MIC?
Think about all these questions, talk about them with your friends and those around you. It will become clearer.
We all need to understand this game clearly – the real game. For this is a game that has been played thousands of times, over and over. “The Game” has been perfected. So perfected , that without our knowledge we have been relieved of our one remaining bargaining chip -our votes, all these years. The games that create illusions and replace reality.
To continue this game this year, unusually, PM Najib gave out RM15,000 each to 50 Indian students via the Sri Murugan Center(SMC) yesterday. Why do you think he is doing this now – One Malaysia??
This is our answer. Lately UMNO has come under serious negative light because of the open expressions of dissatisfaction by the Indian students and their parents. This damages the illusions they try so hard to create and maintain of a Government that indeed looks after the interests of the Indians in the country. What Najib is doing here is really damage control to that illusion. Bad news covered over with some handouts and the media flashes it out in big terms.
Add to that, the fact that now UMNO is attempting to find another way to the Indian hearts and minds. They tried with MMSP and failed, they tried with Mugilan and they are failing, now they are trying SMC and they seem to be teasing SMC into their niat – that may well happen if SMC is not mindful.
We would like to caution the SMC leaders that UMNO’s overtures are not so simple as an award ceremony for bright Indian students or a recognition of the work SMC has done with the Indian community. These overtures are nothing but attempts to find new partners in UMNO’s treacherous game to keep the Indians down, where they are. It is clear UMNO policy to block the intellectual development of the Indians in the country, all the way from kindergarten to upper tertiary education, so that the UMNO elite will be able to effectively remove any possible challenge to their continuing control over the levers of the resources of the nation.
If they do become the new partner that UMNO is looking for, then, they will be in clear violation of their original charter, which is to help develop the long term achievements of Indians in the country through improved academic performance.
UMNO is now trying to replace MIC with SMC as their way of getting the Indian votes. SMC please be aware of this, for you do not want to pit yourself against the long term interests of the Indian community by overtly joining UMNO in this game.Please keep this clear in mind.
Be aware-the ways of the devil are many.
Naragan
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