The End of The Road

The year is 2009. We are moving towards the end of the year, end of the first decade in 21^st century. Yes, 2010 will be end of the first decade. Well the questions on everyone’s mind is “Will BN stay in power at the end of next decade?”  If yes, then MIC will be relevant. If not then, well need I say more?

We have been hearing a lot about rebranding MIC but what we should do is rebrand the Indians in MIC. Yes the way they think and operate has to change. The old mindset is still there. It has to go. The begging for opportunities is still there. It has to go. The community is backward and it has to go. Not backward but forward.

Ask for opportunity and move forward. It looks like we are always begging for opportunities and once in a while when we get it which is not much, we squander it and blame the whole world, ok not the whole world but Britain for our predicament.  That was a nice ploy by Hindraf to sue Britain and wake Malaysian Indians minds and also the minds of other races that we too have rights to call this our homeland. So now everybody is awake but the trouble is we Indians might go to sleep while the others make progress.

I see the next decade as a transitional period for politics in Malaysia. If BN wants to be in power UMNO has to wake up, MCA has to wake up and MIC should not go to sleep.

While in the last decade, the Malays and Chinese were talking how to share the economic pie and cake, we Indians were busy begging for tosai and chutni.  While they were growing their economic wealth we were busy complaining why there was no salt in the chutni, ok we were complaining why we did not get more handouts.

First when we gained independence in 1957 there was no comprehensive plan on how the Indians are going to succeed when there will be no more plantations. We have the results now; Indians who thought that the estates are their world are being dragged to urban life environment which they are not prepared for. You find Indians with no money going nowhere but ending up in slumps.

We were not prepared for what is happening now. Who is to be blamed? Well the large portion of the blame has to be shouldered by MIC and Samy Vellu. That is because he was leading the MIC from the seventies. Much have been said about his character. Maika scandal and how he swindled the Indians wealth and so on. But his most unforgivable flaw is he did not plan for the Indians future. He did not foresee the Indians suffering when they were driven away from their safety environment, the estates to the towns. Without education and money most of them ended up as coolies and their children had a misplaced life in society.

Worst of all he did not bring in quality and intelligent leaders who could take the Indians into the 21^st century. There are a lot of Indian brains in the country who would come forward to help the society to reach the competitive level needed to succeed in the 21^st century. But he saw them as threat for his position. We lost out then. Are we going to lose out now?

Now is the end of the road for Samy Vellu. Whether he likes it or not he has to call it a day, if not today then by 2012. There is no point criticising him, for what it is worth, it is the end of his political life. Even if he wants to seek the public mandate, it is too late, well not too late but too old. The expiry date is there for everyone to see. We Indians always dwell on the past. But the time has come for us to look forward. Have a vision. Prescribe a mission to achieve the vision. Be very comprehensive in our planning and let’s set where we want to see our children be in twenty years time and their children in forty years time.

We are emotional people and the political powers in Malaysia know that too well. We do not rationalize too well and that too they know too well. So we end up asking for rations and handouts. They are just too happy to give that and keep us at bay.

The last fifty years we are fighting for Tamil schools and temples. This fight will go on and you can bet on it. There is no comprehensive plan to settle this problem. All we see is our leaders beating their chest to say they got this much money for this school and that much money for that school. Why can’t they form a genuine body, headed by some genuine corporate guy to oversee the management of funds, transparently, for the infrastructure development of these schools? It has to be coordinated well so we can see the real development of these schools stage by stage and numbers by numbers.

Right now all we have is ad-hoc begging you see in Tamil papers for this school and that school. Next we see leaders promising donations for that school. Next the school comes back a year later to say they did not get anything. Next the leaders come out defending their stand why they did not give the money. Next …………………………..? Hope you get the picture. The picture of a run down school, uninhabitable, yet children going there every day to sturdy.

The first task for the new MIC leader is to bring in quality people to plan and provide direction for the development of Indian community. As much we talk about 1Malaysia and Malaysian Malaysia, it will not succeed if we have backward Indians.

His second task will be to get the correct people to execute the plan. Indians currently do not trust their leaders. So trust worthy people should be roped in. This can be done by having transparency in everything you do. That is a sacrifice if you have the power to cheat but this time the Indians do need some sacrifice from their leaders.

His third task and the most difficult one is don’t sell out Indians. Because if these continues there will be no more Indians to sell out.

So who have the right credentials to lead MIC. Ahem. Well the battle has begun a long time ago. So let us revisit the path to the MIC deputy president.

General Election 2008, March. Samy Vellu lost, Palani lost, Sothi lost and Subra lost in MIC election in 2006 so no seat to contest.  Samy and Subra become pals. Palani does not like it. So was Sothi. Samy rebrands MIC using Sothi. Subra become pals with Vel Paari, Samy’s son. Rumour is rife that Samy does not want Palani and that Sothi will be his choice for the deputy post. Samy keeps mum. Presidential election. Subra does not contest. Samy wins with no contest. Subra says he wants to contest deputy post. Sothi jumps in the fray. Samy says he will tell his choice when the time comes. Palani keeps quiet. Samy announces he will support Palani. Sothi does not back out. Subra claims foul and that Samy should not support Palani. Finally Palani files nomination.

What is not going for the three candidates?

Palani, He is not friendly enough, Samy’s man

Subra, caste politics, perceived as trouble maker in the party, selfish, Becoming pals with Samy after 2008 GE.

Sothi, Telecom share scandal.

What is going for them?

Palani, no scandal, straight, pious, no vices.

Subra, friendly and young look

Sothi, the young age and his shout in parliament in support of Indian medical students.

The Campaign Stratrgy

Palani, Meeting the leaders throughout the country giving VCD on his credentials

Subra, whacking Samy with the aid of his newspaper and roping in NST, Malay Mail and TV3 to give him credentials, and also Tun Mahathir. Getting people to discredit Samy and Palani.

Sothi, house to house, he is the sec gen of party so he has all the addresses.

Where they are going wrong?

Palani, not much as usual playing his cards close to his chest.

Subra,too engrossed with Samy when his opponent is Palani and Sothi. Using caste, looking for nammavar endorsement with non-member nammavars who are his pals. Looking like a stooge for UMNO with the support he gets from UMNO linked media and Tun Mahathir. Getting party veterans who have lost credibility to endorse him. Govindaraju claims he cheated in 77 MIC polls for Samy to win – the problem with this story is that he went immediately to Subra and told him about it to clear his conscience.

Now, now, at that time Subra was the President’s man, he was the sec gen of the party and they were controlling the whole machinery. Tell me that they were so stupid not to tally the number of delegates casted the vote with the total votes counted. If 100 people casted their votes and you take out 30 then the total votes counted will be 70. If this number does not tally then the election is void. If you want to lie you need to be technically right. That means you need a little brain to lie. So who is stupid here Govindaraju or Subra? Anyone can lie but if you don’t have the brains even to analyse that then something is amiss.

Malay Mail reported this,

IN 2006, he sported a long beard for six months until Datuk G. Palanivel won the MIC deputy presidency.

Today, he is pulling his hair apart at the alleged failures of Palanivel for Indians in the Hulu Selangor parliamentary constituency.

V.S. Chandran, the chairman of MIC Bandar Utama, Batang Kali said that some 7,000 people had been displaced over the past 18 years when 13 oil palm and rubber estates in the constituency made way for development projects.

Palanivel was MP for Hulu Selangor between 1990 and 2008 when the redevelopment took place “but failed to get appropriate facilities for the displaced Indians.”

By 2008, eighteen years Palani does nothing for the Indians yet in 2006, sixteen years after Palani does nothing for Indians, this guy goes and grows his beard for six month so Palani can win. Some caring Indian leader he is.

So this guy looks like he has got vengeance at heart because he lost the deputy post in his division.

Another interesting character is this guy OMS Thiagarajan. He went on a tirade against Vel Paari about his scandals in Subra’s Tamil daily. But that did not last long when Vel Paari went on the offensive about OMS’s scandals in his Tamil daily. Suddenly they called a truce. The moral of the story is if you have one gap open try to keep the other gap shut. Let me put it this way, if your ass is exposed, you do not shout at other’s ass and attract attention to yours.

Subra needs more credible guys to take down Palani. Too many goons on his side which could be his liability.

Subra’s slogan, change for better. And it stopped there. If he means change from Samy’s era then he is discounting himself too because he is from that era. Another conflicting event with his slogan is he was the deputy president for more than 20 years and he is going for the same post again, so how is he going to bring changes for better with a deputy post when he could not do it then with the same post. May be if he would have gone for the President’s post, this slogan would have served him better.

Sothi, very quiet campaign and confusing too. To Samy’s people he is Samy’s man for anti Samy’s people he is anti Samy’s man. He needs to make a stand. Which is which only lord knows.

Who will win?

As a rule of thumb, don’t go against the incumbent if you do not have enough ammunition. In this case the ammunition is delegates. The numbers belong to the three stalwarts. Samy, Subra and Palani. Sothi is an outsider. Palani needs Samy’s support to win and it is the same for Subra. Subra knows this and that is why he became pals with Samy after 2008 GE.

The wrong assumption is that all of Palani’s number is from Samy. This is the deadly mistake that Subra is making. Palani has his own numbers which is about 500, Samy will have about 500 and Subra will have about 500. Samy does recognise Palani’s strength and maybe that is why he did not go with his original plan to support Sothi. This is mere speculation.

Majority of Samy’s supporters will be behind Palani because Samy supports Palani. As much as Sothi is capable of pulling Samy’s votes, he is capable of pulling Subra’s votes because of two factors, clan and Subra’s ardent supporters who are pissed with him for making himself an idiot by becoming pals with Samy for a brief period. This should neutralise the Sothi factor. Sothi is capable of pulling Samy’s votes and Subra’s votes but not Palani’s votes.

This gives Palani an upper hand in this contest. How much the delegates hate Samy is yet to be seen. I did not say people but delegates. People hate Samy but the delegates? That question will be answered tomorrow.

Whoever loses it will be the end of the road as far as their MIC political career. And for Subra it will be the end of the road even if he wins with the sack noose hanging over his head.

The Sambar has gone bad and finally the shit hits the fan.

When you are sitting for a hearty meal, the last thing you want on your banana leaf is “usipona sambar” That is the tamil word for the sambar has gone bad. If you eat it than make sure you have a toilet nearby and it is empty and ya, also running water. If not the stench will not only get you but the people around you.

The sambar of MIC, Subra has turned bad. You can smell the bad sambar a mile away. How else can we call a man who uses caste politics to enhance his own survival. Yes he can say he did not call the “nammavars” meeting and yes he can say it is democratic and everyone can have a say or an association. And yes he can say if the “nammavars” want to support him than it is their right.

What baffles me is these “nammavars” who are crowing in public that they are being marginalized in the MIC party and they support Subra for the deputy president post, are actually Subra’s drinking buddies and they are not even MIC members. A check with “Chakravarthy pub” a drinking waterhole for Indians with Indian music, will verify his drinking credentials with his buddies or buddies credentials with his drinking.

If you are not a member of MIC and you know that MIC is marginalizing “nammavars” then you ask the “nammavars” in the party to leave the party and join other political parties. After 2008 GE the option are really good. If you support BN then you can join PPP or Gerakan. If you support PR, then you have DAP and PKR. If you support neither and you want to be the “lalang” or in English, Congo grass then you have IPF, MIUP and the newly formed MSP. With lalang parties you are always supporting the winner or you will be the winner whoever wins.

So why this group of elite “nammavars” suddenly calling for the support of Subra. Subra is a “gounder” and he has been thriving on their support. Ask KP Samy and he will tell you how “gounderish” he is and how they have been using it for their own political gain. If you think nammavars are discriminated in the party then think again. Samy supported Pandithan in politics and brought him up to the level of parlimentary secretary in the 80’s. And to show gratitude to Samy, Pandithan stabbed Samy’s back when he went in cahoots with Subra and Pathma to bring down Samy. In 89 the hard fought election was won by Samy. A former United States senator, Claiborne Pell once said “People who leave Washington do so by way of the box….ballot or coffin”. Well Pandithan had to leave MIC, not by way but because of a coffin. He went on a hunger strike outside the MIC head office with the determination that he will get what he wants or will leave by way of the box, and he came prepared, with a coffin. Well that became the final nail not in his coffin but in his MIC political career.

Well guess who played the puppeteer pulling all the strings in that coffin puppet show. It was none other than Subra who instigated Pandithan to act in such a frivolous manner. Now if he wasn’t instrumental then he could have at least stopped it before it could get Pandithan the sack from MIC. Or was it intended to be so. Why not? Subra must have felt Pandithan and not Pathma was a threat for his political ambition.

Subra could have easily fended off Pathma’s advances to his position by using the shit factor-caste factor-against Pathma. That is because Pathma was keralite and the numbers does not match up in the MIC polls. But Pandithan had the numbers in the form of nammavars. Pandithan openly used the caste factor to pull himself up the rungs of MIC. Subra being aware of this, poisoned  Pandithan’s mind to go against Samy Vellu because he knew Samy is preparing Pandithan to take on him.

The gullible Pandithan fell for the sweet words of Subra and turned against Samy. Gullible, I suspect that. Pandithan must have thought,  help Subra destroy Samy then go for Subra and finish him off to take on the leadership. Subra too knows this and was pretty much worried. If Subra is unable to unseat Samy then Pandithan might join back Samy’s pack. And this will be a real danger even to his No. 2 post. Subra knows Samy well and that he will use Pandithan to go for the No. 2 post. If that would have happened then it is goodbye Subra a long time ago. So it was Subra who put the final nail in Pandithan’s MIC political career.

So who was playing caste politics? During that time Pathma, a keralite was a deputy minister, Pandithan, self claimed nammavar was a parliamentary secretary. So was there marginalisation of nammavar in MIC? The whole fiasco started when Subra intelligently used the caste sentiment on Pathma and Pandithan for his own gain. For his own political ambition he sacrificed two of his so called friends, Pathma and Pandithan.

Now Subra is at it again, instigating his so called nammavar friends to instigate the caste sentiment in MIC.  Smart or stupid his nammavar friends are falling for the wily gounder charm. Smart or stupid, we will see how the nammavar delegates cast their votes this Saturday. What the  nammavar delegates should ask is what the elite nammavars who are not MIC members, have done for their own? How many scholarships have this self made metal millionaires have given to their kind? How much have they contributed from their millions to uplift their kind?

Well caste is like shit and you know what happens when it hits the fan. Subra will know this Saturday.

Subra Red-dy for a Bullfight

Talk about making an entrance. They say picture speaks a thousand words, but in MIC the colours seem to do the job. Subra made a grand entrance in Red at the MIC nomination centre. For a minute the visitors must have confused, whether they are at the MIC nomination centre or the IPF convention centre. With his charade accompanied by the sounds of “Urumi” he would have had a walkover if he would have contested for the IPF’s president post. But why the Red?

Party president S Samy Vellu is a bull when it comes to party politics. So if you want to take the bull then you take it by its horns not wearing a red shirt and parading in front of it. Subra had his chance to bring down the bull by its horns but failed when he did not have the balls to take on Samy for the president’s post. All he could offer now is IF he would have known Samy is going to back out from staying neutral then he would have contested for the president’s post.

Samy being a scumbag at that time made Subra look like a scumbag when he hugged him to become his bosom buddy all of a sudden after his defeat in the 2008 general election. Now the only plausible reason for this event to take place is both want to screw each others back (not literally). Samy being smart and a tiger in nature was only buying time before mauling his next victim the hapless and stupid Subra. Stupidly Subra thought he was smart. With a court injunction against Maika he thought he had a ace in his pack and that it could be used to leverage a deal with Samy.

You can say anything about Samy but you cannot credit him with stupidity. And he really knows how to handle the Subras of this world. So it ended up with a stupid ass getting his ass whipped by a smart ass. Looks like the whipping is so bad that Subra’s ass has to be carried by his “Nammavar” supporters, literally, during the MIC nominations.

What about the RED, why wear RED? To show the “nammavars” that he is on their side. Now that is “nammavars” for you. If you wear red than they will allow you to walk into their home and have anything you want. That’s how they supported the leadership of IPF where they blindly contributed for party funds without asking any questions. The leaders blindly collected funds from BN which they did not show any accounts. So now all the funds are with the leader and not the party. Now the party leader is no more so the funds are with his wife. That is ‘nammavar” for you. For their blind support, all you need to do is wear RED. Also it helps if you have a couple of whiskey with them. So Subra being Subra, he was drinking whiskey and now he is in RED, I mean RED shirt.

To be continued………

Chameleons of MIC

While it is heating up in the MIC election for the deputy president post, the battle of nephews have begun for the youth chief post. It is T Mohan (the proxy of Velpaari) versus V Muthuvel. It is also a battle of non-grad versus a grad. Muthuvel being a lawyer believes his channel of communication with the Oxford of UMNO and the Engineer of MCA (the heads of UMNO youth and MCA youth respectively) will be better. While T Mohan believes you need not be a grad to ride a bullock cart through the streets of Penang.

The funny thing about the youth post of respective political parties is, it makes a monkey out of a even an educated man. Just ask the UMNO youth chief about his antics during the visit by Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state. So T Mohan is half right when he thinks education should not hinder someone’s progress in politics, especially at youth level.

So far what we have seen from the MIC youth leader is his photographs in every newspaper when ever MIC youth assist some needy people. His job function also includes gathering the youths to show force during Maika AGM and any other MIC functions. Some claims he craves for publicity. Well there is nothing wrong if you really achieve something and then claim publicity. But it shouldn’t be cheap publicity.

If you serve without seeking publicity but it comes, then well and good. But if you are seeking publicity just to serve then you are cheap and you should be in politics. T Mohan qualifies well here.

Another quality you need to be in politics is you should be able to change your colour like a chameleon to adapt to any situation. Again T Mohan qualifies with flying colours. At Kg Buah Pala he changed from MIC blue to Hindraf orange. Not only he exhibited the change of colours of the t-shirts, but also his grey matter. This poor young man must be having amnesia, sleeping through out the BN reign in Penang and suddenly wakes up during Pakatan reign. Suddenly he realizes that the 200 years old of Indian heritage of Kg Buah Pala is going to flattened to give way for a private development project. Now he is at arms, with petition, asking the Pakatan state government to stop the destruction of the village.

This is from NST online,

PENANG: The MIC is willing to offer RM3.2 million if the Penang government can get back the land in Kampung Buah Pala, Bukit Gelugor from the developer.
MIC Youth chief T. Mohan said the move was to enable the residents to continue living in the village.

Asked whether the value of the land could be higher than the price at which the land was sold, Mohan said: “Why did the Pakatan Rakyat state government proceed with the sale of the land when they knew the value was higher?”

First it would have been easier to do it -that is buying the land and giving it to the villagers- during the BN reign because in case T Mohan has forgotten MIC is part of BN. Or they could have used the money for the legal fees that the residents have to bear taking the case to courts.

Better still, why not MIC use the money to buy land on the mainland and move every bit, brick by brick and wood by wood of the village to this new land using bullock cart and say Kampung Buah Pala’s heritage started on the Brown’s land and lives on, on the new land. That could be world news and it might become a tourist centre just for this facts. Will MIC do this?

And it looks like T Mohan is very upset with Pakatan Rakyat government for not selling the land at a higher price. If they would have sold at a higher price maybe he would not have changed his colour from blue to orange and had a bullock cart race on the streets of Penang.

And talk about timing, after he was arrested for jay walking with the cows, he announces he will contest the MIC youth post.

Now, would he have done it if it was not MIC election year? And there is no contest for the youth chief post? Well looks like MIC election does bring out the true colours of false leaders.

The Indian Political Dilemma, backing Asses after Asses

You back a buffalo it drags you through the mud and leaves you there while it is out. Then you back an Ass (donkey) thinking it is a horse going to give you a ride and what happens, it kicks you back.

We supported a sailing ship (Alliance), it could not sail in the rough waters and we ended up in the rough seas. “Dacing” was born, and we supported it but the balance scale tipped the scales to the “Bumiputra” with NEP.  We ended up in mid air. Population wise or economic wise we don’t have the weight to bring down the scales.

Well it was an economic battle between the Malays and Chinese, who ends up in the ditch, the Indians. We are now classified with the “Orang Asli” in terms of economic ownership. Thanks to MIC.

This is an extract from Wikipedia on Malaysian New Economic Policy.
“In spite of the policies implemented under the NEP, the share of the national wealth owned by the non-Bumiputra races increased beyond the 40% mark. This figure, however, does not reflect that certain segments of the non-bumiputra population live in dire poverty. The Malaysian Indian and “Orang Asli” in particular form the lowest strata of the population in terms of economic ownership”

What happened next? Hindraf happened. From mid air, they took us through hot air about making us millionaire by suing the HRH The Queen of England. As usual we ended up on the streets, marching for our rights to be millionaire. From here we backed the Rocket, the Eye and the Moon.

In March 2008, the horse we backed won in the Malaysian GE. The Indians thought the rivers of Penang, Perak, Kedah, Selangor and Kelantan will flow with gold. But the only thing that is flowing right now from the REM (Rocket, Eye, moon) states is broken promises.

DAP which should be “As Happy As Pig in Shit” for coming to power in Penang is very upset that the PAS government has broken the illegal shit den (pig abattoirs) in Kedah. So they are now shitting, sorry shooting through their mouth to pull out of the PAS lead government.

Now in Penang they inherited some shit, not pig shit but cow’s, cow dung, from the previous government. The problem with this shit problem is they have promised that if they come to power they will have the shit problem go away but looks like they are constipating.

By now you all must be feeling very shitty with the word shit I have been using. That is because the whole saga stinks. It simply stinks, stinks and stinks.

Now let us review why the damn thing is stinking.

First if you cannot deliver, don’t promise. During election they went on an overdrive, more like verbal diarrhoea, promising the Kampung Buah Pala folks that they need not leave the land with their cows if they win. And if anyone is going to evict them from their land than they have to do it over their dead body.

With a federal court order the developer is waiting with an eviction notice. The village folks are not budging because DAP has promised them that it has to be over their dead body. So no DAP dead body, no eviction. Now you see why DAP is not setting foot in the village. Because they want to help.

This is Lim Guan Eng, the chief minister of Penang’s speech for Thaipusam:

“On a day of fasting and prayers, DAP reminds devotees celebrating not to forget the unfortunate, such as the war victims in Sri Lanka. No language is adequate to describe our revulsion and sorrow at the images of death, injury and destruction. However we must not remain speechless in the face of such violence and remember the innocent war victims, regardless of race and religion.”

This is a very well worded statement. He says do not remain speechless. That means talk about it but do not do anything about it. That is why he is talking about the Kampung Buah Pala issue and not doing anything yet. And for a chief minister he is also being very childish. Like he does not want to meet the Village folks because they are with outsiders.

Maybe the CM should revisit his Thaipusam speech when he said “we must not remain speechless” So what if they had come with MIC people or Hindraf people or lawyers. You are in a public office and they are public, just meet them. As much as you want to champion the pig farmers in Kedah, Hindraf wants to champion the cowherds.

This is from Malaysian Insider July 2,

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has blamed the pullout of Kedah DAP from Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) coalition government in the state on “the failure of the PAS-led government to give equal treatment to all Kedahans.”

In a press statement, the Bagan MP acknowledged a breakdown of trust within PR in Kedah, leading to the state DAP’s decision which he called “a serious matter with large adverse national ramifications.”

“It signals the complete lack of communication and respect from the Kedah PAS-led government… unlike the respect accorded to PAS in Penang,” the Penang chief minister said.

If you read this you might think, my god what is happening in Kedah. But actually he playing to gallery, the Chinese gallery.

Let us look at the issue here. First 50% of the houses for the Malays in Kedah. It is only for Malay reserve land. It is not applicable to freehold land. If you want to develop freehold land in Kedah, you can sell 100%, all the houses to Chinese.

Unless DAP wants to make noise about the Malay Reserve Land. If it accept the Malay Reserve Land that what is the problem about the 50%. They should be happy at least 50% non-malays can own houses in Malays Reserve Land. Anyway it is good for national integration.

The next issue is what Lim Kit Siang says, the straw that broke the camel’s back. Well I would say it is the pig that broke the DAP’s back.

This is what Kedah Pig Slaughterers Association chairperson Liew Lib Kooi said in Malaysiakini;

“Finding us a new location for our abattoir did not require a single cent. Building a new one requires a huge amount of money and our major concern is that the state government did not assure us that they will pay for our new abattoir,” Liew said.

Liew added that on July 16, officials from Environment Department will do an assessment report, stating the environmental requirements that needed to be fulfilled in order to operate a new abattoir that includes the need for a filtering pool.

According to Liew, the function of a filter pool is to filter the waste liquids produced after the pigs are slaughtered.
He said that the pool will prevent water pollution and this was the main reason why the previous abattoir was demolished.

Liew also said they faced difficulties in paying for the cost of building a new abattoir and the filter pool, which were expensive to purchase and maintain.

“In the previous abattoir, there were only 27 of us, slaughtering less than 100 pigs per day. How are we going to pay for all these costs without government assistance?” he asked.

From above one thing is very clear. The pig farmers in Kedah were operating an abattoir without license (that means illegal) and which was polluting the river and that is why it was demolished. An it is only 27 pig farmers.

Don’t tell me the Chinese population in Kedah is this 27 pig farmers only. That is why the DAP wants to pull out of the state government. For one minute, did they think about all the other Chinese in the state, and for the matter the other races in Kedah (DAP being a Chinese multiracial party).

For the past one year the state government has been telling them to correct their mistake. The pig farmers did not. By the look of it they were not law abiding citizens. And you defend them. So what if they pollute the river, who cares. Looks like DAP doesn’t care about the well being of other people.

And with the previous BN government, they must be getting their way somehow to run the illegal abattoir. So don’t you think DAP, the law abiding party which now wants to abide by the Federal court decision on Kampung Buah Pala issue, should stand together with PAS and tell this pig farmers to get their act right.

But what does DAP do, they make so much noise about national health policy and when the ball is in their court, they don’t reprimand the pig farmers for polluting and endangering public health but reprimand the PAS government for doing so.

Now they have a new site, but they want the government to build them the abattoir. Now isn’t that public fund for the pig farmers private business. You invest, you reap the profits. If is not viable business then do some other things.

DAP, if you can defend such cases with so such ferocity in Kedah, then you have it in you to do the same in Penang, especially when you are the government. If you don’t then you are no different from UMNO, you are a racist party after all.

When Lim Guan Eng, said “the PAS-led government has failed to give equal treatment to all Kedahans,” just because of the pig farmers issue then why can’t MIC or Hindraf or PKR or PAS say that the DAP-led government has failed to give equal treatment to all Penangites because of the Cow herds issue.

So looks like DAP is looking after its own kind but they are not racist because they have appointed an indian as a deputy minister, donated to Indian schools and temples. BN has has done more donation compared to DAP, if that is the criteria to be non-racist.

Stop treating Indians as idiots just because they are a minority. Justice is justice regardless of number, race and creed. Finally if there is only one Indian in Malaysia, his problems still needs attention simply because he is Malaysian.

Start treating Indians as equals to Chinese in DAP and then in Penang. Indians in DAP were screaming for MIC to walk out of BN for the temple breaking issue and so on, now will they have the guts to walk out of DAP if the Indians were evicted in Penang. Lets see.

So looks like MIC is still relevant. That is why this MIC election is very important for MIC itself. Choosing the right leader who can bring reform to MIC will see it survive and become stronger. Choosing the sambars and sothis, MIC might just turn out to be another ass or it is RIP MIC.

For all the political parties in Malaysia, Indians are a pain in their ass but for Indians all political parties are just asses waiting to kick back.

This is the Malaysian Indian political dilemma.

Subra the chicken heart calls MIC Indians coward

They Malaysiakini reported on June 26,

“They must have the courage to support a candidate who can serve the best for the party, community and country.

“Declare your support openly to save democracy,” he told reporters after launching the Nesa Multipurpose Cooperative Society’s 24th annual general meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

“A deputy must play a positive role for the party, community and the nation,” he said.

“He should not just be a deputy under the shades,” he added,

“We will remove the injunction if Maika can find a higher bidder for the company,” said Subramaniam.

Benama reported this.

KUALA LUMPUR: Bekas Timbalan Presiden MIC, Datuk Seri S Subramaniam hari ini berkata hasratnya bertanding merebut kerusi itu pada pemilihan parti itu 12 dan 13 September ini bertujuan menyatukan kaum India dan anggota MIC khususnya.

Katanya ia juga sebagai usaha penting beliau untuk mengembalikan semula kerusi MIC yang dimenangi pembangkang pada pilihan raya umum lalu.

“Kita perlukan seorang timbalan yang dapat mengembalikan kekuatan parti, menyuntik keyakinan dalam masyarkat India bahawa MIC masih relevan, dan yang mampu memainkan peranannya dengan berkesan, bukannya seorang timbalan yang hanya berselindung,” katanya pada sidang akhbar selepas merasmikan mesyuarat agung Koperasi Nesa Serbaguna Berhad di sini, hari ini.

Mengenai hubungan beliau dengan presiden parti, Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu, Subramaniam berkata tiada pergeseran antara mereka.

Pada sidang akhbar itu, Subramaniam yang juga pengerusi Koperasi Nesa Serbaguna, mengumumkan pembahagian dividen enam peratus kepada ahli koperasi tahun ini.

Beliau berkata koperasi itu akan membina lebih 1,000 unit rumah kos rendah dan sederhana di seluruh negara untuk keperluan anggotanya. – Bernama

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“A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him.” Author: PHAEDRUS

They say good leaders “walk the talk”, Subra not only walks but he runs. The only problem he runs backwards from what he talks. He whacks Samy Vellu in his daily, when it was time for action he runs not against him but away from him.

First he must think that all Indians or at least the MIC members are idiots or stupid. When he says have courage to support a candidate, he is implying that all these while the MIC members were scared to support a candidate because they were cowards. Now this includes him because from the time he was whacked in the party polls for the President’s post by Samy Vellu, he seem to pee in his pants when the name Samy Vellu and President’s post is mentioned in the same breath. How else would you define his fear to contest Samy Vellu in the recent party election.

Samy was at his weakest, he lost his parliamentary seat, lost his cabinet post, he is old with back pains, his family problems were making headlines for the wrong reasons, pressure from UMNO for him to walk away, even his former guru, Dr. Mahathir has said Samy has overstayed, the Indian community was against him and yet Subra could not pull his shitty guts up to stand against him. NOW THAT IS REAL COURAGE.

And he got one thing wrong, if a deputy played a positive role for the party, community and nation then he won’t be a deputy for long. A good deputy should play a positive role for the party leader, community leader and national leader, then he is a good deputy. If you don’t play ball with the President you get your ass kicked. Now we don’t have to tell Subra about ass being kicked when he has his whipped.

“Kita perlukan seorang timbalan yang dapat mengembalikan kekuatan parti” blah, blah and so on. Obama is the President of US, now who is the vice president, ahem, most of us would not know it right. That is until he becomes the President then the responsibilty to run the nation lies with him. Until then he is in the shadow of the president. He has his work cut out for him to assist the President to manage the nation. It is important for the deputy to be in the shadow and not outshadow the President. This applies to politics and also corporations. The tail must not wag the dog.

Now if he would have said under the President’s skirt, well in MIC case “vesti”, maybe it would have a different spin. So if Subra meant the current deputy of MIC is under Samy’s shadow, then he must be doing a good job as a deputy. Let me get it straight here, I am not telling the current deputy is doing a good job or bad job, that is for another day when he decides to contest. But according to Subra he seem to be doing a good job as a deputy, that is staying in the shadow and out of controversies.

Do anyone know who is the deputy of NESA, what his contribution? Now Subra don’t keep him in your shadow, get him out and show him daylight. Or maybe you are waiting till the MIC deputy president’s race is decided, win you give up your NESA chairman post, lose and you want to be the life long Chairman of NESA.

We are in the IT world which is moving very fast with all information at our finger tips – type on a keyboard and you get it on the screen – and yet as Chairman of NESA you have not established a website for NESA. Maybe you have but it is not functioning, just like you, because it is hard to find on the WWW.

Subra wants to win all the seats lost by MIC in 2008 GE. With this statement he reflects the other side of him, his lighter side. Indians are down but they are awake. What is lost by MIC in 2008 is not the physical chairs but the will to convince the Indians that they are the only voice for the Indians and the seats are rightfully theirs. Indians have become the double edged sword, they can cut both ways now, soon DAP will know about it. So Subra Indians might be a bit smarter than what you think.

When asked about his(Subra) relationship with party president Samy Vellu, he said – “tiada pergeseran” – no friction between them. Of course no friction, because whenever there is a slight friction Subra gets torched. So Subra has this strict rules “NO RUBBING AGAINST SAMY VELLU”. That is why when recently Samy whacked Subra about the Nesa injuction, he bravely called for a press conference only to be meekly on the defensive.

Subra might have a tough time convincing the MIC members that he has GOT IT to lead the party. Definitely not courage, and definitely not management skills. He might have had a chance if he had build NESA to be a highly successful and modern cooperative that is an envy of other cooperatives in Malaysia. It can never be when you have the same old leaders playing the same old record. I will do this and we will do that, always future tense, never past tense, like we have achieved this we have acheive that. It is always the future, it is never now. What was future in 1980’s is still a future in 2009. Indians are yet to see the sunlight but they have opened their eyes.

A lot of people know you now Subra and you can’t deceive them with your false sense of courage. But if you are doing it to make people laugh, you are doing a very good job.

The “Mucha kottais” of MIC

The Malaysian Insider reported on June 15,

“We have no choice but to fight it out if Subramaniam is betrayed,” said K.P. Samy, a die-hard Subramaniam loyalist, told The Malaysian Insider. “I won’t discount the possibility that Subra might field a line-up to contest all posts,” he said, adding a head-on battle, if it happens, would be brutal.

Such a fight would divide the party down the line, said a former MIC vice-president, adding the party might break up and some factions might join the DAP and the PKR. “In the end the Barisan would be the big loser,” he said, urging Samy Vellu to stick to his promise, both to Subramaniam, to the BN and to the Indian community, to retire gracefully and let the rank and file decide the new leadership in a “free and fair” election. “The last thing he should do is take sides,” he said, adding that the PKR is constantly wooing veteran MIC leaders.

It is believed that several veteran MIC leaders have come together and formed an informal group and are planning to speak up “for the MIC” in the weeks ahead.

Cont.

Besides them and Subramaniam, former party treasurer Datuk V.K.K. Teagarajan also announced, nine months ago, he was contesting for the deputy president’s post.

But sources close to him say he is now seeking a vice-president’s post in a Subramanian lineup, if it takes shape along, with other MIC veterans sidelined by Samy Vellu.

They believe the ground is good for a “rebellion” after 30 years under Samy Vellu’s leadership. “We want change… anybody but Samy Vellu and his coterie,” said a MIC branch chairman.

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Nature intended man to use his mouth for two purposes, one to eat the other to talk. Maybe an extra purpose is for you to breathe if your nose is blocked. Ah, I forgot, you can also vomit through your mouth. But this happens only when you are sick.

Did you notice that the mouth is near the brain? God intended this for a reason. Before you open your mouth to talk, you have to think. If god intended you to talk through your other orifice, he would have moved the brain to your other head, way below your belly, near your other orifice.

But some are really sick, sick in their mind that they talk through their ass. One good example is this fellow K. P. Samy. He said “We have no choice but to fight it out if Subramaniam is betrayed.” Hello, the Indian community is betrayed, and you did nothing. Oops sorry, he did nothing because only the Indian community was betrayed not Subramanian.

He went on to say “I won’t discount the possibility that Subra might field a line-up to contest all posts,” he said, adding a head-on battle, if it happens, would be brutal.

This guy can be good stand up comedian, maybe he should try for a slot in Sun TV’s “Asatha povathu yaaru”.  Let’s talk what is brutal here. You mean the MIC will become two where we will have MIC Baru and Semangat 69 (69 is from the whisky Vat 69). Or will it go to chair and table clashes as in Eighties.

Are we talking about a selfish Subra here? Let us look at this scenario. If Samy Vellu doesn’t betray him then he will be happy to contest as Samy Vellu’s man, then asking all his comrades, including KP Samy not to contest so Samy Vellu’s man can win. If Samy doesn’t betray then he will not put a line-up and he will be happy to be in Samy Vellu’s line-up, sacrificing his supporters for his own benefit.

So KP Samy, you should be happy if Samy Vellu betrays Subra, because then you can at least contest on Subra’s ticket.

Subra betrayed his friends to become goody-goody with his arch enemy Samy Vellu. Did Subra consult all his friends who stood by him (actually forced to stand by him because Samy Vellu threw them out of the party) before kissing ass with Samy Vellu. Maybe he consulted his closest aid, lord knows who, before making this decision.

Subra has this mentality of divide and rule among his friends. He tells A “you are special don’t tell B” and he tells B “you are special don’t tell A”. But who is special, that nobody knows but one thing is for sure that they are both fools for thinking they are special. So KP Samy welcome to the SSFC (Subra Special Fools Club). Most probably he promised you the Deputy President’s post if he becomes the President. Be assured that you are one of the many he has promised.

As for the former Vice President comment about MIC breaking up and some joining DAP and PKR, well if they haven’t done it then most probably they won’t. For him Indian community breaking up is a loss for Barisan. So he is more worried about Barisan than the Indian community breaking up and becoming weaker. No wonder he is the former Vice President. And he went further to say PKR is constantly wooing veteran MIC leaders. It is PKR’s good luck that they have not joined them, if not PKR might end up like MIC.

And about the several veteran MIC leaders coming together to speak up for MIC, for once I support them because they are going to speak up. I just hope rather than speak up for MIC they should speak up for the thousands of Indians who can’t call Malaysia their homeland because they have no citizenship, Indian students who excelled in studies but no scholarships and hundreds languishing in jails and badly treated.

As for VKK Teagarajan and other veterans planning to be in Subra’s line up, please remember, you are veteran for a reason. If you all have contributed a long time ago then you all will be incumbents now and not veterans. Now the best contribution you can give is, remain as veterans and give others a chance to do something for the community that you all have failed to do.

About the MIC branch chairman who feels the ground is good for a rebellion, I am wondering which ground is he standing on. He wants change and it can be anybody but Samy Vellu. I did not know Samy Vellu is going for Deputy President Post. Please someone tell him that Samy Vellu is the President of MIC today and he won without election because branch chairman like him did not nominate anybody else. If only they had stopped looking at the ground for a rebellion, maybe they would have nominated someone.

“Mocha Kottai” is Hyacinth bean or Indian bean in English. They are climber plant and need support to grow.  Like this plant all these “mocha kottais” of MIC need someone for support. They are unable to stand up for themselves. So they are hanging on to a guy like Subra thinking that he is a tree, not knowing that he is also a climber plant and need support of Samy Vellu to grow.

The Sothis and Sambars of MIC

Well quite a bit has been happening in MIC lately. Interesting, interesting. Malaysians must remember a TV series called “pi mai pi mai tang tu”. Do you know what it mean? In english it means ”Go here, go there, go here, go there; end up going nowhere” Well this applies to amost of the characters in a drama called MIC election.

The first the lead called Samy, “I will not support anybody, I will support somebody, I will not support anybody” crowed Samy about the deputy president race. Anyway Samy being Samy he will support someone. Who will it be?

Will it be Sothinathan, the sothi (South Indian Side Dish) of MIC. A white blend stuff, mild and non fiery. No meat either. Mostly you see this dish with Idiayappam. So NO Idiayappam NO Sothi. And NO Samy NO Sothinathan.

Or will it be Subramaniam, the sambar of MIC. It taste good but too much dhall can cause wind in your stomach, which later creates unpleasant smell that no one wants to be near you. It looks mild and not as fiery as chicken curry, and it doesn’t have any meat.

Samy is like chicken curry, fiery, hot, got meat, but sadly the meat is all chicken bishop nose (in malay “buntut ayam”), Mostly fat without much meat.

But who cares curry is curry, hot and fiery, thats how he leads the MIC, without any meat. He leads with just fat talk. That is how Indians have been hoodwinked into believing fat is meat.

In 1982 Indians have been hoodwinked to believe they will become the next economic power in Malaysia. Some Indians sold their shirts and pants to invest in Maika. Ok, Ok they did not sell it to invest but lost it after they invested. But you have to give it to him. He did manage to talk the Indians in giving him RM100 million. After all the fat talk, 27 years later the Indians are asking where is the meat, and Samy says it is in the form of Overseas Capital Assurance Bhd (OCAB), which is valued at RM 130 million.

Lets talk some maths, If you were to put RM100 million in Fixed Deposit (FD) way back in 1982, with an average FD rate of 5% (Average BLR from 1982 to 2009 is 8.1%) then Maika should have about RM373 million, that is without doing any business.

I did not want to get serious with this blog so lets get into the sothis and sambars.

Well Sothi wants to be the chicken curry, but you can’t. The most Sothi can have is “ikan bilis” so it can never be the chicken curry.

As for sambar, the most it can achieve is dalcha status, so it can never be the chicken curry it aspires to be.

So sothi and sambar are trying to hoodwink the MIC members into believing that they are the real deal, the fiery chicken curry with real meat without any fat. All this far we are hearing from them is fat talk. As they say talk is cheap, doing is hard.

When a person like Sothi aspires to become the President of MIC, then there is something really wrong in MIC.

When a person like Subra aspires to become the President of MIC, then there is something really, really, really, wrong in MIC

Electing these two leaders will be like inviting hangman’s noose to MIC neck. The party will be dead buried and gone before the rivers flow with Sothis and Sambars.

Malaysian Indians are angry too.

Malaysiakini reported on 27 May 2009,

Vell Paari said that Ranasinghe should “find time to talk to the protesters to understand why they are angry”.

Finally Vell Paari has said some sensible thing on the Sri Lankan massacre of Tamils in their country in the guise of war against terrorism.

But what baffles me is how come he did not say the same when Indians in Malaysia walked the streets on the 25 November 2007. Why the Malaysian Indians walked the street? Why they were angry? Malaysian Indians the humble race of humankind who sloged the terrain to build railways tracks, sloged the land to build tar roads and sloged the jungles to grow rubber for their owners and country to prosper.

For the past hundred years they have been sloging and sloging only to be rewarded with pittance remuneration. While the bosses called it salary it was nothing more than bones for slavery. When Indian came or brought to this country, they did not come to steal from the country but to give their sweat to build a nation in the hope that their future generations will not face hardship like them. They were hoping their hardship and tears will not go in vain. But little did they know that their future generation will walk the roads that they tared with their blood and sweat, screaming for help so their future generation will not meet the same fate.

BN dismissed it as a ploy by the opposition to get votes in the general election. Especially MIC, the so called guardians of Indians in Malaysia. If only Vell Paari has told his father,the President of MIC, to understand the Indians anger on the mismanagement of Maika Fund, mismanagement of the funds given by the government to assist Indians, mismanagement of lands given by the developers for Tamil schools and misusing the trust and faith put on him to lead the Indians for his own personal gain, maybe then the father could have done the most honorable thing that is, not take his life, but just resign. But again, Samy Vellu might have just disowned his son.

A Bus Driver taking MIC to nowhere

NST reported on 19 May 2009

“I am driving the bus. I must know where to stop and where not to.”

Samy Vellu dismissed talk that the party was becoming irrelevant and said nearly half of the 3,600 branches in the country saw elections in this year’s party polls.

“There is so much of competition. It doesn’t matter when people say we are not relevant because those who say so are people who are not relevant to politics.”

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I am not sure whether Samy Vellu has read this blog, but when I said he was taking the Indians for a ride I did not expect him to own up.

I guess the problem is when he needs a jet; he is still using the bus that has faithfully worked for him in the late seventies.  When asked if MIC has become irrelevant, his answers were thought-provoking, provoking our thoughts to think that a highly irrelevant person has been leading the party all this while. 

When they say MIC has become irrelevant, it simply means the party has lost the relevancy to be the choice political party of the Indian masses. The Indians did not vote BN because they have lost faith in MIC. When Samy said vote for BN, majority voted for the opposition. When Samy said we have done so much for Indians, everyone was asking what?

He was right when he said Hindraf might have opened the eyes of many Indians, but when he questioned where it was now, he should have questioned himself where he is now. Hindraf not only brought the Indians to the road for protest but literally brought down Samy to the political street.

By Samy’s own admission that the Indians are awaken by Hindraf proofs that he has been leading the blind so far or he was shielding their eyes from the truth so he could lead them forever or as he says drive the bus forever. Imagine the MIC members sitting in the bus with a blindfold not knowing where their driver taking them to. They just nod their head when the driver says we are at the garden of roses when there is a giveaway stench of the rotten place they are in. Some can even comment how good the smell of roses are.

That is MIC members for you. They are on their back foot, MIC is on its back foot while Samy is crowing about their imminent victory over opposition in attracting Indian support. Sound more like Saddam before his downfall. Well the support is there to kick him and MIC out of Malaysian politics. With Samy at the elm the only losers are MIC and its members not the Indians. 

For Samy having competition in half of the 3600 MIC branches is relevant. For him it does not matter if irrelevant people say MIC is irrelevant. Wake up Samy, wake up. The relevant people are saying it. It is not the Americans, it is not the Russians, it is not the Arabs, Africans or Australians. It is not even the Chinese or Malays. It is your own Malaysian Indians whose votes you depend for a victory during General Elections. If they don’t vote, MIC will cease to exist. Your position in the government will cease to exist, which you know very well.

The proof was there for you to see in the last General Election. They dumped you and MIC once and they won’t think twice to dump you and MIC again. Malaysian Indian whom you thought ware irrelevant has made themselves relevant again. Malaysian Indians has become the “chilli padi” of Malaysian politics. Small in size but fiery hot. The Indians small in numbers but it counts when it matters. After every parlimentary victory in Sungai Siput you did credit your wins to other races than Indians. For you the 22.6 % of Indian voters were irrelevant compared to the 40.2% Chinese and 30.6% Malay votes in your constituency. Well they made it relevant this time around. 

Look at it, what is the point of having competition in 3600 branches if the Indians are voting some other party in the General Election?  Look where PPP was forty years ago and where it is now.  They are still having branch elections. They are still electing, well nominating their President. But unlike those days where they won parliament and state assembly seats with their own merit and public support, now they have to beg. Not begging the people to vote them but just for a seat to contest and that too to lose.

Sometimes you really wonder where Samy is taking the MIC bus to. Maybe this time he is taking it a bit too far into the political wilderness for it to find its way back.