Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Let me clarify: Malaysian Indian here means Malaysian of Indian origin/descent/ancestry.
So, we got 400,000 makkal not interested or ignorant on voting. That would be a big chunk of eligible makkal voters.
MIC leaders should register more voters to make Indians “a powerful vote bloc” as this would allow the community to get concessions from the Govern-ment.
MIC president Datuk G. Palanivel said some 400,000 Indians had yet to register as voters.
He called on the party’s 4,000 branch chairmen to get them registered, saying that they should target one new voter each month.
Palanivel said many issues were plaguing the community that needed to be resolved, especially healthcare, poverty, scholarships, allocations and employment op-portunities.
“The Government needs to address these issues because the community is not in the mainstream but has become a sub-stream community,” he said, adding that the community can de-mand for more recognition and help by forming a strong voting bloc.
source: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/6/20/nation/8933538&sec=nation
