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‘Smiling prince’ a big hit with locals

April 24th, 2007
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Ijok by-election: ‘Smiling prince’ a big hit with locals
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/National/20070424082343/Article/index_html
BATANG BERJUNTAI: He is Punnagai Mannan (smiling prince) to the people of Ijok.
K. Parthiban truly lives up to this image as he is never without his trademark smile.
This is clearly reflected in the posters that have flooded the constituency which show a beaming Parthiban.
Amirtham restaurant owner Subramaniam Sinnasamy said this trait has endeared the Barisan Nasional candidate to locals.
“Even if you scold him, he will smile at you. He’s a jovial and easy-going person who never loses his temper.” Parthiban, who was born in the Raja Musa Estate, is popular with local Indians who see him as a local boy made good.
“Parthiban is a good person. I’ve known him since he was a child. He used to drop by the restaurant when he was in school. Now he’s an educated man and not at all proud or arrogant. He has not forgotten his roots.”
Subramaniam said the constituency had developed over the years with many shophouses and factories which offered jobs to locals.

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Samy fights for estate workers and hits out at Khalid

April 24th, 2007
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Land for housing in talks with KL Kepong
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/24/nation/17528657&sec=nation
IJOK: KL Kepong Berhad will be asked to allocate land for housing and agriculture for workers in the Tuan Mee, Caledonia and Coalfield estates, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.
He said this came under the Selangor government’s regulations requiring estate owners to provide housing schemes for the workers.
Samy Vellu said this following a request for land by Tuan Mee Estate MIC branch chairman K. Ramavellu at a meet-the-people session at the estate last Sunday.
“I will have discussions with KL Kepong, which owns the estates, on the matter. We will urge them to allocate land for housing for the more than 200 workers in the three estates.
“We will also ask for agriculture land so that the people can farm and cultivate vegetables to raise their income,” he added.
He said that more than 56 housing schemes for estate workers had been implemented by the various estates in the country, with the first scheme in Dovenby Estate in Sungai Siput.
Earlier in his speech, Samy Vellu said the estate workers in the country were being paid a monthly wage because of his relentless efforts in compiling a working paper for the Cabinet.
He claimed that when opposition candidate Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim was at the helm in Guthrie, he had opposed housing schemes for estate workers.
“He (Khalid) was the one who insisted in putting the estate workers in low-cost apartments. If he had the interest of the estate workers in mind, he should have approved the housing schemes for them.”

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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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NEWS:Selangor to help estate workersÂ’ children

April 23rd, 2007
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Selangor to help estate workers’ children
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/23/nation/17519884&sec=nation
THE Selangor government will set up a foundation to help the children of estate workers in their studies so that they will not be dependent on estate jobs, said Tamil Nesan.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo said the state government realised that estates had to make way for development in future and there would be less estate jobs.
He said the state spent about RM1mil last year on the education of estate workers’ children and RM2mil had been set aside for the purpose this year.
Last year, he added, the state government worked with MIC’s Social Strategic Foundation to train children of estate workers acquire vocational skills at the Inpens International College in Klang.
The daily also reported that all MIC branch chairmen in Johor had been asked to register Indian youths who attained the age of 21 as voters.
Johor MIC chief Datuk K.S. Balakrishnan said the chairmen must identify the youths and get them registered without delay

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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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