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Samy piles pressure on PM

/* May 22nd, 2008 by poobalan | View blog reactions No comments »

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Wonder what Samy was thinking about. Election pledges will take long time to be implemented, probably end of 5 years. Only Pakatan led states are expected to implement their pledges within months, if not days 😆

Probably Samy realises its not easy to get the RM300 million the party is asking for ANNUALLY and starts reminding his boss about it.

Samy would have also noticed that the focus is now on Sabah and Sarawak, and if this goes on, MIC would be left floundering behind. He has to remind the coalition that MIC is still around.

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Nalla plots his move

/* May 22nd, 2008 by poobalan | View blog reactions 1 comment »

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Now, this is interesting. A public meeting arranged between Nalla and PM (5 minutes only). Again, Nalla uses this chance to blast Anwar. In the same breath, he talked about his party MIUP joining BN, even though MIC has always opposed another Indian party joining BN. He says Samy Vellu is like a “guru”. Well, no matter how much he praises his “guru”, “guru” is always smarter than the student.

I was watching on TV the interview with Nalla and realised he mentioned his party as “Malaysian United Party”, and then corrected himself by saying “Malaysian Indian United Party”. Kind of a prominent gaffe shown on prime time.

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Parliament abbatoir or market

/* May 22nd, 2008 by poobalan | View blog reactions No comments »

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Not sure if anyone remembers cows and goats being slaughtered in parliament compound which happened last year July. Reason? Celebrating the wedding of our prime minister. The MPs organised a “kenduri” (reception). Agreed, the slaughter was in the compound and not in the building itself. But I doubt the cries and smell of the animals were more pleasant compared to a 6-year old’s birthday which was surrounded by about 15 people. TV3 showed the birthday celebration clip which was held in the lobby, during the 8pm news. They focused on comment by one of the officials that Parliament is becoming like “Central Market”.

I think its not an appropriate place to have birthday parties, even though its a simple cake cutting ceremony only. Of course only the opposition MPs will attend and show support. And this will be used by the others to cast a bad light on the whole thing.

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Samy goes begging again for scholarships!

/* May 22nd, 2008 by poobalan | View blog reactions 3 comments »

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I remember Samy saying “no more begging” when Pahang EXCO line up did not have any Indians in it (well, only one candidate is available!). I suppose he only meant for that specific case. Now its that time of the year (nope, not X’mas or Deepavali) where a short serial drama is played out.

This time, only 72 out 2000 (3.6%) recipients were Indians. Stories are aplenty about students with lesser As getting scholarship due to their privileged status. Just check the letters section in The Star yesterday for some examples.

As usual, the aggrieved students and parents have no choice but to approach political parties (heard PKR’s Gopalakrishnan is organising a meeting as well, while Sivanesan had done so in Perak). Then, the party will be made to look like saviours when in fact it was their failure that bought the community down to this level in the first place. I think the parents and student are more mature now. They’ll just nod their heads at Samy’s speech, agreeing to everything he says, put up with “words of advice” until their kids get the scholarships. But when come to election time, another rout for MIC is expected. Don’t think that the community can be fooled by this kind of drama. » Read more: Samy goes begging again for scholarships!

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wife claims ISA detainee wheelchaired due to torture

/* May 22nd, 2008 by poobalan | View blog reactions No comments »

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Wow! This is quite serious, detainee (temporarily?) paralysed until need to use wheelchair. His condition was not informed to even his wife until brought out for treatment. Wonder why he is detained for until end up like this.

Wife of ISA detainee lodges report, alleges torture

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KUALA LUMPUR: The wife of an Internal Security Act detainee lodged a police report yesterday against the Home Ministry, police and the Kamunting detention centre in Perak, claiming her husband had been tortured.
Sharmila Uthiakumar claimed her husband Sanjeev Kumar Krishnan, 25, is now wheelchair-bound because of the torture.

In her report at the Dang Wangi police headquarters, she claimed her husband’s legs and his left hand were paralysed.

This was the second report to be lodged. The first was lodged by Sanjeev on April 25, at the Taiping police headquarters.

Sharmila said before her husband’s two-year ISA detention, he was remanded for 60 days until Sept 22 last year.
“I was only informed about my husband’s condition in April this year, after he was brought by the camp authorities to the Taiping Hospital for treatment.”