Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email I don’t believe in the mentality of burning effigies like in movies. I think someone should advise the PKR guy to behave himself and not subscribe to such gimmicks. Enough of effigy burnings in South Asia, Middle East etc. There’s many way to protest, be creative and useful la…
MIC Youth has criticised a PKR leader for threatening to burn an effigy of Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam over the Tamil literature issue.
Its information chief S. Subramaniam said PKR Puchong’s Muralee Subramaniam had not made any attempt to seek clarification from the MIC vice-president over the matter.
“Dr Subramaniam has promised to raise the issue in the Cabinet after 11 Indian organisations submitted a memorandum to the Education Ministry early this month,” Subramaniam said.
“We should wait for the outcome,” he said at a press conference here yesterday.
Also present were several branch chairmen and representatives from the Youth and Women wings in the Puchong MIC division.
The information chief, who is also the Puchong MIC Youth chief, said Muralee was previously a member of MIC, but defected to PKR when he was not given any position.
“He (Muralee) is trying to gain cheap publicity through these stunts. The Indian community knows who really cares for them,” he said.
It was reported that Muralee was planning to undertake the burning of the effigy today as a protest against Dr Subramaniam’s failure to get the ministry to allow Indian students to take Tamil literature as an additional subject in the SPM examination next year.
Subramaniam said Muralee had also wanted to take about 100 people to MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu’s house to enquire on the Maika Holdings issue last month but failed to carry out his threat.
Subramaniam said Muralee should not waste his time on petty issues, and instead, try to help Indians who had problems.
“I also call on the Indian-based societies and non governmental organisations not to support Muralee’s irresponsible action.”
As for the SPM subject crisis, I’ll write about it in the next posting.
