Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email I guess the guardian of Indian community won’t be squirming in his seat. After all, previous leaders have graced functions by PPP or IPF. But the move by PM Najib to launch a new party is interesting to the Indian community. Especially more so when the new party is very much linked to HINDRAF. I still remember ex-PM Badawi saying “who are they” (referring to HINDRAF) in 2007. Anyway, its an open secret that MMSP got its application super-fast-tracked by ROS due to orders from the top.
The Prime Minister has accepted the invitation to launch the newly-formed Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party on Oct 10.
Party secretary-general Kannan Ramasamy said the Prime Minister accepted the invitation in late August to be the guest-of-honour at the party’s official launch scheduled to be held at 10am at the Malaysia Agricultural Exposition Park in Serdang.
“We are happy that he has accepted the invitation and we feel it is a good start for us with the Prime Minister launching our party,” said Kannan.
The party, which was officially registered early this year, is a splinter group of the outlawed Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) which organised anti-government rallies in November 2007.
Although a large number of pioneering Hindraf members appeared to still be anti-establishment, Kannan and party president R. S. Thanenthiran ? both Hindraf coordinators ? have made peace with the Government.
So, will MMSP be in the mould of IPF, a BN supporter but remaining outside the coalition, with the lure of Senatorship for its leaders, special appoinments and cabinet positions a strong possibility after the next general elections? Or will infighting, sabotage, and other malaise affect it, eventually condemning the party into oblivion?
