FMT - Consider Hindraf candidates for GE14, Indian business body tells PH (extracts):
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Recently, Hindraf chairman P Waythamoorthy said it was unlikely the Registrar of Societies (RoS) would allow Hindraf to be registered as a political party.
“Therefore, we are hopeful that, with our cooperation with PH, they (components) will allow us to contest seats they had lost before,” he had said, adding that Hindraf did not want to run in the parties’ winnable seats.
Speaking to FMT, Mica president P Sivakumar said it would be wise for PH to work with an Indian organisation which was well connected on the ground with the Indian community.
“Hindraf is in a better position compared with other Indian organisations because they’ve been championing the Indian grassroots, the Indian youth and the Indian lower income groups for some time and they are quite well known.”
In my post Podah Hindraf just less than a week ago, I said that we always have Hindraf emphasising the racist angle, whether to BN or now to PH, begging to be the representative for Indian Malaysians.
Mica president P Sivakumar tok's-kok in saying: Hindraf is in a better position compared with other Indian organisations because they’ve been championing the Indian grassroots, the Indian youth and the Indian lower income groups for some time and they are quite well known.
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The Malaysian Indian Commerce Association (Mica) has urged Pakatan Harapan (PH) to consider Indian rights group Hindraf’s plea to have its candidates contest in the upcoming election using the logos of the coalition’s component parties.
Recently, Hindraf chairman P Waythamoorthy said it was unlikely the Registrar of Societies (RoS) would allow Hindraf to be registered as a political party.
“Therefore, we are hopeful that, with our cooperation with PH, they (components) will allow us to contest seats they had lost before,” he had said, adding that Hindraf did not want to run in the parties’ winnable seats.
Speaking to FMT, Mica president P Sivakumar said it would be wise for PH to work with an Indian organisation which was well connected on the ground with the Indian community.
“Hindraf is in a better position compared with other Indian organisations because they’ve been championing the Indian grassroots, the Indian youth and the Indian lower income groups for some time and they are quite well known.”
Hindraf's perpetual pathetic pleading to be the political representative for Indian Malaysians has been a joke when Indians look down upon the NGO ever since Waythamoorty crossed the Rubicon in 2013 and became a BN minister but unlike Julius Caesar, has the brazen nerve to now swim back.
That was after he made a fool of himself by his grandiose grandstanding filing of a 4 trillion pound (yes, Sterling pound, wakakaka) lawsuit against the Poms (after running away to safety in UK) and even seeking to strike out Article 153 of the Malaysian Constitution.
Waythamoorthy should stop using the name of Indians when they are already represented by a host of parties, such as the DAP, to a lesser extent PKR and the PSM.
The DAP even has an Indian as Penang's Deputy Chief Minister and another as a Senator on top of its 6 Indian MPs and 14 ADUNs. Even MIC doesn't have such, the strongest Indian strength in parliamentary representatives.
Then there's the so-called Indian party MIC on the BN side which I have to grudgingly say has improved somewhat under its new party president Dr Subramaniam (Health Minister).
Are Hindraf leaders that so hard up for political positions they believe they can only achieve their dreams by using Hindraf in such a sad begging way?
We can't do much about history with regards to UMNO, MCA and MIC but from now on we should have less of ethnic-based-&-named parties like Hindraf and racist ketuanan Pribumi.
We can't do much about history with regards to UMNO, MCA and MIC but from now on we should have less of ethnic-based-&-named parties like Hindraf and racist ketuanan Pribumi.
Yes, Hindraf is well known for becoming BN's lapdog. Podah again also for its preposterous and nonsensical 4 trillion law suit against Great Britain.
If PH wants to give away seats, it'd be better to give them away to PSM. F**k Hindraf.
