Pakatan and Hindraf/HRP alliance: On or off?

By Shan,

In early October 2011, Hindraf/HRP came forward with open arms to work with Pakatan Rakyat leadership in charting the path to dethrone Umno-led BN once and for all at GE13.

At this point, nothing indicates any movement forward other than the Chairman of DAP, Karpal Singh, issuing a tailored statement to fit the agenda in a political sense.

Maybe they are doing it hush-hush, maybe they are not. However I can't help wondering which amongst the three PR component parties have actually taken the trouble and initiative to engage Hindraf/HRF.

My guess is none because they don't actually take Hindraf/HRP seriously even when this group had handed them an opportunity on a silver plate through their revolution in GE12.

DAP needs to run its own as they feel they are mighty and strengthened with their English educated personalities. We must understand DAP is no more the typical Chinaman platform, it has wings of its own now.

PKR, or the rejects from Umno led BN, well they tried in 1999 with Reformasi and you saw the result when even stalwart opposition leaders were wiped out.

PAS, is the interesting one, which has been silent. We can admit that they are much wiser and more matured in their approach with deep rooted grassroots support like Hindraf, unlike makeshift PKR and the current day chameleon DAP.

I can understand if Pakatan does not want to engage Kita, PCM or other similar parties from Sabah and Sarawak as these are parties that sprung out of frustration either within the Pakatan coalition or rejects from the Umno-led BN.

With Hindraf/HRP, you don't have those issues; it is an organisation working in tandem with conscience minded personalities independently without fear, favour or political purpose.

It never made any demands in GE12 when it could have easily done, but now it has come forth to make demands as it appears nothing much has changed in the status quo of the poor and the discriminated for the Malaysian Indians.

Now, don't run the line that it is racist. It is a fact the Malaysians Indians being the minority, had been neglected whereas the Malays are empowered politically and the Chinese economically. Can we agree on this?

I think we are all racist if we cannot understand the grouse of Hindraf/HRP in enhancing humanity and rights before political and economical power.

My thought is, even without engaging, if Pakatan feels that Hindraf/HRP alliance is not workable for them, then they should just come out and say it rather than painting a picture that they know what they are doing. Like what Umno led BN is doing these days by sidestepping those immobile organisations like MIC, PPP etc.

Pakatan, it is your call to engage Hindraf/HRP. But understand that the underlying strength of Hindraf/HRP is its consciousness of the marginalised and discriminated Indians.

Just look at the Premier, Najib Abdul Razak, he is taking all efforts to entice the Malaysian Indians directly, bypassing the established Malaysian Indian political mandores because he knows Malaysian Indians hold the swing votes in more than 63 parliamentary constituencies.
Yet the Pakatan leadership thinks with their Manglish heroes they represent the grassroots?

If that is the case, why did you need a Hindraf uprising to create the phenomenon in GE12?

Pakatan, it is not about your political and economical power, but what you aspire that is just for the community, starting with the lot of the Malaysian Indians.