{"id":1032,"date":"2008-01-05T22:15:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T14:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/01\/05\/mic-saravanan-interview-on-radio\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T22:15:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T14:15:04","slug":"mic-saravanan-interview-on-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/01\/05\/mic-saravanan-interview-on-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC saravanan interview on radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Heard the interview of Datuk Saravanan, MIC information chief today between 2 and 3pm over Minnal FM. Among other things he said:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>1. the sri lankan indians, northern indian, indian muslims, and indians who lived in town areas around 50 years ago were better off unlike the southern indians bought to malaya by the british as workers. The southern indians who were primarily in estates and rural areas were given lodging, schooling, and liquor shops were contented until in early 80s when the realization to improve their lives came about. He said TDM&#39;s policy was one of the main factors. (Perhaps closing of estates and discriminative policies played a role too.) <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>2. He said, if compare in the last 20 years or so, indians from estates have progress well if compared to malays and chinese. this is due to efforts of MIC and other groups as well. this was because the chinese had economic strength and the malays were helped by the govt. but the indians did it on their own.  <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>3. He said the indians, especially youths,&nbsp;are now more politically aware and show interest in national issues, due to the &quot;happenings&quot; lately. He thanked all those who have created this awareness, without mentioning names (i assume he meant HINDRAF?). <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>4.&nbsp;He asked indians to attend the 20th january function by MIC to voice out their opinions and ideas. He said PM will be there and we should come and show the support to PM so that PM will agree to provide more for indians. He asked all interested parties to contact MIC with their ideas\/opinions so that can compile and present to PM. (perhaps he forgot to mention that the gathering is organised by MIC to show that indians still support PM, BN, UMNO, and MIC). <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>5. he said let bygones be bygones and make use of the opportunity created by &quot;recent events&quot; to voice our needs to the govt. he said it is important to stay united (behind MIC?) so that the govt will listen to the community. <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I didn&#39;t listen to the early part, only managed to catch it at 2.30pm.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard the interview of Datuk Saravanan, MIC information chief today between 2 and 3pm over Minnal FM. Among other things he said: &nbsp; 1. the sri lankan indians, northern indian, indian muslims, and indians who lived in town areas around 50 years ago were better off unlike the southern indians bought to malaya by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[131,21,24,225,141],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-bn","tag-hindraf","tag-mic","tag-politicians","tag-umno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}