{"id":1520,"date":"2008-03-10T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/10\/prof-ramasamy-thanks-makkal-sakthi\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T03:12:11","slug":"prof-ramasamy-thanks-makkal-sakthi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/10\/prof-ramasamy-thanks-makkal-sakthi\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Ramasamy thanks Makkal Sakthi"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was <em>makkal sakti<\/em> (people&#8217;s power) that propelled me to victory and I will never forget all of you,&#8221; he told them. \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Giant-killer pulls in the crowd at estate<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/3\/10\/nation\/20596064&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By K. SUTHAKAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BUKIT MERTAJAM: In Tamil movies, scenes of villagers rushing out of their homes to catch a glimpse of the handsome M.G. Ramachandran (MGR) as he arrives to rescue them from villains are common.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home, Dr P. Ramasamy, may not have the looks of the late Kollywood matinee idol but he was a crowd-puller at the Batu Kawan Estate where he made his first constituency visit since winning in the general election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Men, women and children came out excitedly upon hearing that the giant-killer, who defeated Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon by 9,485 votes, had come to thank them personally for electing him their MP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also bagged the Prai state seat by a 5,176-vote majority, defeating Barisan Nasional&#8217;s L. Krishnan and independent candidate R. Ulaganathan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was <em>makkal sakti<\/em> (people&#8217;s power) that propelled me to victory and I will never forget all of you,&#8221; he told them. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It was makkal sakti (people&#8217;s power) that propelled me to victory and I will never forget all of you,&#8221; he told them. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[119,130,21],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-dap","tag-election-2008","tag-hindraf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}