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Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email YB Devamany is wondering why Pahang government have not appointed an Indian to excutive council. If we remember well, Samy made his famous “we would not beg” statement when asked about no Indians in Pahang EXCO seat.
If I’m not mistaken, the MB said that not necessary to have representative from certain race since the BN representatives serve everyone.
MIC won one state seat in Pahang.
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Update on 27 June: The deceased is married (NST):
Elangesvaran is survived by his wife, V. Thanaletchumy, a 6-year-old son and a 11/2-year-old daughter.
The court also ordered the body to kept in the hospital until both parties present their case.
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Sorry guys, the original posting was meant to be a draft and I didn’t realise it was actually published. It just contained the news articles from Star and Malaysiakini. I have edited it now:
The issue here is the alleged conversion of B. Elangesvaran, (Malaysiakini said Elangesvaran Benedict) aged 34 and a Hindu while alive. The deceased was a used-car dealer says NST. He committed suicide 4 days ago (which in Islam is a major sin). According to the brother, Elangesvaran hanged himself.
The brother, S Selvam (brother is B., but he is S.?) aged 48, filed a summons to stop the state Islamic Religious Affairs Department, the Perak Islamic Religious Department and the Parit Buntar Hospital director and their workers and agents from claiming the deceased body or preventing him from conducting a Hindu prayer rites. » Read more: Elangesvaran convert problem
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email The media boycott at the parliament ended a day after it was initiated. The barricades were removed by Bung Mokhtar yesterday afternoon, but the media personnel did not enter the restricted areas since there was no official statement from the Parliament office. This action angered Minister Nazri. He said the BN Backbenchers Club (Bung Mokhtar and gang) should have not removed it before the Speaker made official announcement. NST wrote that there is a a silent battle going on between Nazri and the BN BBC.
As reported in Malaysiakini:
 Meanwhile Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Aziz lambasted the BN Backbenchers Club (BBC) members who removed the barricades yesterday.
“I do not condone their action. Even though they are from BN, they have no power to do that. Who are they to take down the barricade? It’s a bad example of them,” he said today when contacted by a Star senior journalist.
He further added that the power instead lied on the hands of the speaker and they should wait for the decision to be made.
“It’s the speaker’s power, he’s in charge. It’s unbecoming… don’t think you are a BBC member, you can do what you like, is this a gangsters’ club? They better know where they are placed in the house,” he lamented.
The minister also dismissed the allegations that he was behind the media ban, as reported in Malaysian Insider.
He however gave credit to the opposition for raising the matter in the house yesterday.
The speaker Pandikar Amin, today was not exactly behaving in a humble manner when he said:
I would be seen like a loser if I said the ban is lifted
This joker is more worried about saving face than either (i) admit his mistake or (ii) stick to his guns.
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Looks like Khalil manages to find another issue to be embroiled in. He seems to be in the papers for all the wrong reasons nowadays.
Before ACA concluded their inquiry, he announced that his aide is suspended. The guy was not informed prior to the announcement it seems. The aide, Yahya Mat Sahri had quit the post and also as Selangor PKR secretary. I understand that the MB wants to show that there will be fair and unimpeded investigation, but he should have informed the affected party.
Meanwhile, several division heads in Selangor PKR are unhappy that key positions such as councilors were not being given to the party warriors, but instead allocated to professionals.
We are angry that many of our pejuang (party warriors), especially division heads, were not appointed into the government, including as local councillors.
We are not happy as the people we named were not only qualified but were with the party during reformasi (reformation) time and even braved teargas and beatings for the party,
| Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Minister Ng Yen Yen mentioned that her Women, Family and Community Development Ministry is working with Registration Department and state governments to resolve problem of children without “documentation”. She goes on to say that these documents were needed for schooling and medical access. Wonder what are those “documents” because she says it does not include identification cards.
Selangor is mentioned as having a high number of people without proper identification, especially from the Indian community. Figures vary from 20,000 to 80,000 depending on who you ask. Besides Selangor, Sabah also has a very high number of children without identification – usually those with illegal immigrant parents, unlike Selangor where the parents are local Indians without any identifications themselves. Kind of a generation problem.
We hope this program will succeed, instead of being dragged until next election season. However, its wiser and most likely cost effective to tackle identification card and citizenship issue at the same time. No point in having another round of exercise to investigate, document and solve identification card problem. The Registration Department should be able to decide on giving birth certificate and/or identity cards based on data collected by the ministry workers, NGOs, state government staff etc.
Before election, this stateless people topic was a hot issue in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, and Malacca as there were cases of estate workers who for generation were without any proper identification. Coupled with total illiteracy, these people were perfect for cheap labor in estates and farm located in remote areas.
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