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BN parties just doing their job

May 13th, 2007
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BN parties just doing their job
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/5/13/nation/17715895&sec=nation
By A. LETCHUMANAN, JANE RITIKOS and PARVEEN KAUR GILL newsdesk@thestar.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR: There can be “friendly competition” among Barisan Nasional component parties in looking after the interests of their own communities as long as they consider the aspirations of others and are not selfish and extremists.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said he was sincerely happy that party leaders took care of their own race’s interests, as it was the Government’s aim to ensure that no race lagged behind.
“I believe they are afraid of lagging behind, that their interests are not considered and they are sidelined, so they take steps to strengthen their communities.
“It would appear as if there is a competition among us, as if we only want to develop our own race. There may be those who are worried and wonder what is going to happen if all are just interested in their own race, that may be the view of outsiders,” he told delegates at the MIC 61st general assembly here yesterday.
Abdullah, however, said that people should not be worried if leaders strived to look after the interests of their communities but were conscious they had a common destiny and struggle for the nation’s future.
“In my good relationship with the party leaders, listening to them and looking at their attitude when we discuss racial, inter-racial and religious matters in the Cabinet, I assure you that we all discuss them responsibly to ensure that harmony and mutual respect among the people are maintained,” he said.
He said Malaysia and its people had always been safe because all races advanced together in the pursuit for progress.
“It is a friendly competition to do the best and offer the best that we can, like what we wish for our children. This competition will bring good progress for everyone. But don’t be selfish or extremist in the ways we do things, in the policies we pursue and strategies we develop.
“Think of others too because we don’t live just for ourselves,” he said.
“We are all in the same ship and if the ship leaks, we will all sink,” he said, adding that this must be taught to the younger generation who are full of ideas and idealism.
“We don’t want people who are clever but extreme in their thinking, who act without considering others or have religious or racial extremism,” he added.
Abdullah said there was an important lesson to be drawn from the recent Ijok by-election. He said that while many of the electorates had complained about the past state assemblyman, they still voted for the MIC candidate.
This was because they were confident of the party, Barisan and the candidate’s capabilities.

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MIC to go all out to register voters

May 3rd, 2007
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MIC’s confidence is sky high! Would this be chance to demand for extra seats in coming election? Or MIC going to ask for more goodies for Indians?
– Most Indians voted for BN
– Malays supported BN due to promises by MB to personally look into their problems. In other words, the Malays still want their own people there in the form of a proxy for MB. Cikgu Parthiban not enough. Also, strong campaign by UMNO and the development projects in IJOK swayed the votes.
– Chinese voters are the trump cards. they seem to know what the Indians and Malays votes would be and they voted accordingly. Forcing MCA to be more vigilant. All this “discussion behind closed doors” story doesn’t seem to placate the Chinese voters.

MIC to go all out to register voters
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/5/3/nation/17612431&sec=nation
KUALA LUMPUR: The MIC will conduct a massive voter registration exercise, its president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.
He said a national committee, to be headed by one of the party’s three vice-presidents, would be set up to spearhead the campaign.
“We want every eligible Indian to be registered as a voter to face the next general election,” Samy Vellu said.
He said that in the Ijok by-election, it was found that many Indians had not registered as voters.
“The Indian votes are very crucial for Barisan Nasional, as evident from the Ijok by-election,” he said in reference to the polls on April 28, which saw Barisan’s K. Parthiban beating Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim of Parti Keadilan Rakyat by a 1,850-vote majority.
Samy Vellu, who said that almost 80% of the registered Indian voters in Ijok had cast their votes for Parthiban, added that the more than 4,000 MIC branches had been given a month to submit to the party headquarters the list of eligible but unregistered voters.
“The MIC headquarters will then assist the Election Commission to register them,” he said, adding that he had asked all branch heads to make house-to-house visits to identify the new voters.
In some cases, he said, a single house would have as many as four or five unregistered voters.
Samy Vellu also said the MIC branches had been told to identify voters who had changed their house addresses so that they could be traced during an election. – Bernama

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NEWS:Villagers fork out RM1,455 to thank DAP

April 25th, 2007
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Villagers fork out RM1,455 to thank DAP http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=17687
Giam Say Khoon PETALING JAYA (April 20, 2007): About 70 Machap Baru “grateful” villagers today resorted to a “Fancy It” way to thank the DAP for contesting in the recently concluded Machap by-election in Malacca. They passed the hat around to collect about RM1,455 and placed a “Thank-you” advertisment that was published in Sin Chew Daily today.
For the DAP, it was the first time that the party has received such a response from the electorates, though it contested the seat with little hope of winning. However, it managed to garner more Chinese votes compared with in the 2004 General Election.
A check with Sin Chew showed that the 10cm X 11cm black and white advertisment cost the villagers RM1,455.30, before discount if any.
Basically, the villagers thanked the DAP for “forcing” the Barisan Nasional (BN) to spend money and bring “development funds” to the villages in Machap.
Translation of the advertisement:
“Thank you DAP
The villagers of Machap Baru would like to thank DAP for participating in the Machap by-election, enabling us to enjoy various allocations, benefits and treatments, like building a recreational park, upgrading road, lamp, and irrigation system, building low-cost houses, upgrading the Machap clinic as well as allocations for three Chinese primary schools in the area.
In the past 50 years, the villagers have never been given the chance to enjoy all these infrastructure development.
Because of the by-election, the villagers’ lives have changed drastically, it is a blessing for the villagers and we hereby thank the DAP. – From a group of grateful Machap Baru villagers.”
When contacted, DAP’s losing candidate Liou Chen Kuang thanked the villagers for their support for putting up the advertisement.
“Obviously, the advertisement consisted some sarcasm against the BN. The infrastructures problems were already there for quite some time.
“The problems were only settled during the by-election,” he added.
Liou said he hoped the state government would keep its promise and realise all the pledges made by BN during the by-election campaigning period.
He said the government should always be concerned about the peoples’ woes, not just during elections.
A villager who wanted to remain as anonymous and who contributed to the advertisment, told theSun by phone that the villagers had chipped in for the advertisement to thank the DAP sincerely.
“We also want to tell MCA that they should keep their promises made during elections. If it was not for the DAP which made a lot of noise, we would not have all the infrastructure problems resolved,” he said.
The villager also said the government should not neglect the people once the election was over and they should continue to answer the people’s call.
Liou was defeated by MCA’s Lai Meng Chong with a majority of 4,081 votes in the by-election on April 12 following the death of Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam on March 15.
DAP secured 527 votes and MCA got 914 votes in Machap Baru compared with DAP’s 356 votes and MCA’s 1,270 votes in 2004.

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NEWS:180 in Taman Suria get CFs after 15-year wait

April 23rd, 2007
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180 in Taman Suria get CFs after 15-year wait
KUALA SELANGOR: About 1,000 residents of Taman Suria here received their certificate of fitness (CF) for the 180 houses in the estate after waiting for 15 years.
MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu also announced that the flood problems faced by the residents in the housing estate the past five years were also being tackled with the expansion and deepening of the drain near the area.
Hundreds of residents of various races had gathered to greet Samy Vellu, who is Works Minister, and the Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate for the Ijok by-election, K. Parthiban, 38, yesterday.
The residents, 90% of whom comprise the Indian community, also expressed their appreciation to the BN Government for looking into the problem caused by smoke emitted from a glove factory nearby.
Samy Vellu said the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment had asked the factory to install an appropriate device to overcome the smoke pollution.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo said the opposition was being narrow-minded and had deliberately confused the voters in Ijok by saying that Muslims could not vote for non-Muslims.
“Muslims can vote for anyone for cooperation, as was practised since the time of the Prophet,” he said.
“We have to be fair to anyone even if they are of a different religion and even if we have to fight a war for them, we would do so because in Islam, we have to take care of the non-Muslims who can cooperate with the Muslims,” he said after handing over sponsored Science and Mathematics workbooks to schools in Ijok. – Bernama.

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SV and Pandithan – NST

April 23rd, 2007
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They are friends again
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/20070423081237/Article/index_html
BATANG BERJUNTAI: After 20 years of enmity, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu and Datuk M.G. Pandithan finally made their peace here yesterday.
The leaders of MIC and Indian Progressive Front (IPF) appeared together on stage as friends to campaign for the Barisan Nasional in the Ijok by-election.
The frail-looking Pandithan said he wanted to bury the hatchet, admitting that despite their differences, both parties had a common goal to help the Indian community.
“Enough is enough. No more animosity with MIC. We want to work together, not only for this by-election but also beyond this,” he said at a gathering of BN component leaders.
Pandithan, 67, was diagnosed with cancer last year. His party is not a member of BN although IPF has been campaigning to be admitted into the coalition for many years.
Pandithan and Samy Vellu last met on stage in 1999 during the Teluk Kemang by-election in Negri Sembilan.
Although both were campaigning for the BN, they were political adversaries.
Samy Vellu said he was touched by Pandithan’s efforts to campaign in Ijok although he was sick.
“It’s an emotional time for me. I’m welcoming back a friend. Two hearts have become one,” he said.
The bad blood between Samy Vellu and Pandithan began in 1988 when the former MIC vice-president was issued a show-cause letter for allegedly practising caste-oriented politics.
On June 4 the same year, Pandithan started a hunger strike in front of the MIC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, bringing along a coffin to signify that democracy was dead in the party.
This led to Pandithan’s expulsion from the party on July 16, 1988, together with 13 of his supporters. In August 1990, Pandithan formed IPF.
IPF’s application to join the BN has been rejected a few times, opposed by MIC.

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