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Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email More photos from Port Klang Sri Bala Subramaniar Swamy Temple, this time on HSS annathanam stall and the HINDRAF supporters fasting.
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More photos from Port Klang Thaipusam
January 26th, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email
IPF Bersatu, yet another Indian party
January 26th, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Proof that Indians can’t be united at the top, I guess. MIC, MIC Baru, IPF, MIUP, and now IPF Bersatu. It’s not enough for those on top to ask the community to be ‘united” all the time. I think its time for the people to voice their dissatisfaction and anger to these so called champions of the community.
Split in IPF, rival party emerges
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Indian Progressive Front (IPF), the non-Barisan Nasional party that has been loyal to the ruling coalition for the past decade, is now split.
One faction is led by ailing president Tan Sri M.G. Pandithan and the other by former secretary-general K. Panjamurti.
Panjamurti, who is the president of the newly-formed IPF Bersatu, said voters need not worry as their support would always be for the BN. We have our own identity as IPF Bersatu and under my leadership, we have state, division and branch leaders. The supporters behind me will campaign for BN. We are going around the country in favour of the government.”
The last straw came with talks of dissolving the IPF and the possibility of a merger with the Malaysian Indian Cong-ress (MIC) last year.
He added that IPF Bersatu was not registered as he feared getting into a legal battle could spoil votes for BN. He said his faction would campaign for BN with former MIC deputy president Datuk S. Subramaniam and People’s Progressive Party president Datuk M. Kayveas.
IPF deputy president V. Senggutuan, however, brushed aside Panjamurti’s allegations. Who are they? They are nobody to us. All the state, division and branch leaders are with us. We don’t recognise IPF Bersatu,” he said. He added that IPF had been having meetings with Indian voters in Kedah, Penang, Selangor and Perak.
In response to the recent patch-up between Pandithan and MIC chief Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, Senggutuan said it was just a misunderstanding and not a generation-old feud. The “misunderstanding”arose in 1988 when Pandithan was sacked for holding a hunger strike in front of the MIC headquarters.
55,000 Indians benefited from PTPTN
January 26th, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email Ong: 55,000 Indians benefited from PTPTN
MORE than 50,000 Indian students have benefited from the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN), Malaysia Nanban reported.
Deputy Minister of Higher Education Ministry Datuk Ong Tee Kiat said 55,055 Indian students have borrowed from the fund.
He said that the amount given to the Indian students represented 6.4% of total loans given.
He added that the Hope Foundation was established last January to help students who had failed to gain places in government universities by getting them places in, and funds for, private universities.
Ong said the foundation had made arrangements with 11 private universities to provide places for such students. The students were allowed to choose the university and degree.
He said that last year about 280 students managed to get places through the foundation, of which 17 were Indian students.
100000 at Port Klang Thaipusam
January 25th, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email This is the temple that I went in the morning of Thaipusam day. It was less crowded until 9am, but the crowd increased after 10am, according to my friend who was there the whole time, at HSS’s annathanam booth.
Big turnout of devotees
KUALA LUMPUR: The Sri Bala Subramaniar Swamy Temple in Port Klang saw the largest-ever crowd in its 160-year history with thousands of people gathering to observe Thaipusam.
An estimated 100,000 people converged at the temple over the past two days. Twenty thousand devotees, including those carrying paal kudam (milk pot) and kavadi, were at the temple on Tuesday night.
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| Sea of devotees: The crowd at the Sri Bala Subramaniar Swamy Temple in Port Klang during Thaipusam on Wednesday. |
A large crowd again turned up yesterday morning to offer prayers. Temple chairman R.S. Maniam said the temple in Jalan Limbongan usually received just 1,000 paal kudam bearers making their 3km journey from the Harikrishna Alayar Temple in Jalan Tengku Badar.
“This has never happened before but we are happy to see such a large congregation and we are discussing ways to make it more festive if the trend continues next year,” he said when met at the temple yesterday.
At Batu Tiga, Selangor, the Murugan Temple also saw an unexpectedly larger crowd yesterday. According to temple committee member Indra Veerapan, the crowd was double that of the previous year.
“Last year we had about 1,500 people while this year, more than 5,000 showed up,” she said.
The large number of people at these temples did not cause a fall in the numbers at Batu Caves, according to MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.
Speaking to the press at Batu Caves, he said the numbers there were the same as in previous years.
He said more than a million people turned up yesterday but they came at different times. About 950,000 turned up the night before.
Devotees who went to Batu Caves yearly said the crowd this year was smaller than in previous years. They said people were streaming freely through the gates of the Batu Caves temple when in the past, they virtually could not move because of the crowd. Traders also said there was less business this year.
Malaysian Hindu Sangam president Datuk A. Vaithylingam said he received word from members that the turnout was lower this year.
“Although I did not go, I received a lot of calls from members of the sangam and people who went to Batu Caves and they said the turnout was smaller,” he said.
In Penang, George Town OCPD Asst Comm Azam Abd Hamid said the Thaipusam crowd over the last two days were more or less the same as last year’s.
“More than 80,000 devotees are in Penang. The morning and afternoon crowd were about the same as those in previous years,” he said.
It was earlier reported that more devotees were expected to converge on the island from Tuesday because of the call to boycott the celebrations at Batu Caves.
Special Pooja at Subramaniam Temple Port Klang
January 25th, 2008 | Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email There will be a special pooja (prayer) at Sri Bala Subramaniar Swamy temple, Port Klang today (25/1) at 7pm. It is located near to Port Klang KTM station and recently achieved fame due to the largest Thaipusam crowd in its 106 years history.
The special pooja is to mark the last day of “Unnavirtham” (fasting) at the Subramaniar Temple in Port Klang and prayers for Hindraf ISA detainee Uthaya who has been admitted yesterday.
Got the above from a friend.
