http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/09/20/penang-mic-youth-a-bunch-of-clowns/
The FMT article, which quoted Dhinagaran is clear evidence that MIC is living in a denial syndrome and will stoop to a very low level for its political benefit. Dhinagaran’s accusation that the Penang PR government is a ‘profit oriented government’ is absolute nonsense.
What is Dhinagaran’s basis to say the “Penang government and Lim Guan Eng favour outsiders, rather than locals” in reference to the recently concluded Penang International Indian Shopping Festival?
Is Dhinagaran saying that all those who attended the shopping festival were outsiders? Is he trying to say Penang Indians never benefitted at all from the shopping fair? Is this guy aware that even Consumer Associations supported the fair.
Is Dhinagaran saying the seven-day fair had affected the 365 days a year operating businesses? Isn’t it ridiculous to make a such claim? It is totally unacceptable to say that “monopolisation” should remain.
These kind of shopping fairs are opportunities for consumers to get various type of products at the cheapest possible prices. I don’t understand why there’s need for Dhinagaran to oppose this? Is MIC Youth opposing the fact that “shopping fairs are pro consumers”?
Dhinagaran’s call for the “Penang government to create more business for local Indians” is welcome, but before that we want to know how many Indians were helped in the past when MIC was in the Penang state government?
Or it was crony business, where only one or two benefited? MIC is part of Federal government. I want to ask how many Penang Indians, especially youths have been helped by Federal government or MIC to establish business or excel in business? Or was it just crumbs thrown at the community?
The Penang government, with limited financial resources, has been helping Small and Medium Entrepreneurs regardless of race through the “titian rakyat” programme. Many Indians are able to compete in the open tender system and get contracts from the government directly. These are the changes that people were looking for, which MIC leaders can’t understand.
This is not the first time that Dhinagaran or MIC Youth have been pulling “funny” stunts to get cheap publicity. Two months ago, this guy had lodged report against Bersih’s steering committee chairperson Ambiga Sreenivasan and had branded her a “mandore”.
He was trying to please his Umno masters and to get cheap publicity. Several days ago, I came across a news report in a Tamil daily that MIC Youth had lodged a report against Mat Sabu for “twisting” history. In both cases, the majority of Indians were not in favour of the move. In the case of Bersih, many Indians supported the cause.
Many Indian youths came out on to the streets to support Bersih’s demand. And in the case of Malaysian history, Indians are aware that it has been “altered” here and there so many times to favour the majority.
It is fact that many Indian freedom fighters names were purposely left out in our history texts. A trade unionist, S A Ganapathy, who fought British occupancy under the Indian National Army of Subash Chandrabose in Malaya, and later subjected to the death penalty by the British, is nowhere to be found in Malaysian history textbooks.
And it is not impossible for Tun Sambanthan’s name to vanish from our textbooks. But all this never bothered MIC Youth. Their only motive is to please their Umno masters. I’m very sure that this Dhinagaran has a political motive in raising this issue. He is trying to show himself as an Indian hero in Penang.
But, we shouldn’t forget that this was the same guy responsible for all the havoc in Kampung Buah Pala, where the nine of the KBP families refused to accept the RM600,000 worth double-storey house compensation package that was brokered by Penang state government.
He and his party colleagues had misled the nine families into believing that they will get RM3.2 million from MIC by doing so. Even the then MIC president S Samy Vellu had supported the claim that they will give out that 3.2 million ringgit.
MIC abandoned them and refused to take responsibility for the nine families. This Dhinagaran is not only fit to be a leader let alone a politician.
Claims that that Penang PR is running a “profit oriented” government is a baseless and the MIC out to confuse the people. It still thinks people are living in the 80s where they will believe whatever is being dished out to them.
People are able to do their own analysis and are loathe to believe mainstream media propaganda these days. With this latest round of insensible attacks against the Penang PR government, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and Prof Ramasamy, MIC Youth has made itself look like a bunch of clowns and nothing else.
Thanks : www.freemalaysiatoday.com
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