Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email The wheels are in motion. Hindraf has been banned. MIC announces it welcomes HINDRAF members to join MIC. Now a task force WILL (can you remember how many WILLs have been said and its status now?) set up to look into problems of Indians without proper identification. Deputy PM Najib announced this. Actually a task force was set up for Sabah last week (WAS!) to settle similar problem faced by Sabahans.
The Government will set up a task force to look into the problems faced by Indians born in Malaysia who have no birth certificates and identity cards, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
The Deputy Prime Minister said there were 20,000 to 30,000 Malaysian Indians who had no documentation and that he had raised the issue at last week’s Cabinet meeting.
“Malaysians born in this country must be given ICs and birth certificates. We have decided that the Home Ministry will set up a special task force to provide genuine citizens with proper documents,” he said Thursday in his speech at the Bazaar Deepavali in Brickfields.
He stressed that this applied to only Malaysians of Indian origin born here, and not those who came from India for work or other purposes.
Can anyone venture a guess why this is announced now? Surely this is not a new problem that fell from the sky. So what changed? Is it due publicity of such cases in the media? Is it due to MIC? Is it due to BN’s rebranding? Or is due to the “H” word? Is it mere coincidence? Is it due to change of political climate?
For many years, MIC Youth has been trying to solve this problem. T Mohan said they could only solve few cases at one time and the success rate was low. So, what changed?
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