{"id":1537,"date":"2008-03-12T13:29:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T05:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/12\/congrat-prof-ramasamy\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T06:02:59","slug":"congrat-prof-ramasamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/12\/congrat-prof-ramasamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrat Prof Ramasamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, looks like the <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/10\/one-for-you-one-for-me\/\">rumours <\/a>are becoming true! For the first time in history, in the 51st year of our Independence, the Indian community gets a Deputy Chief Minister. Its a good beginning since the country is starting to acknowledge other communities by offering more responsibilities.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even though the post is 2ND DCM, I think is to avoid having both\u00a0CM and 1st DCM coming from the same party. Thus, DCM 1 given to PKR, and DCM 2 given to DAP.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing Prof Dr Ramasamy all the best! May he perform to the best of his capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Do visit him at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/proframasamypalanisamy.blogspot.com\">Blogspot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Penang: Muhd Fairuz, Ramasamy are deputy CMs<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/79668<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"author\"><\/td>\n<td id=\"content\"><\/td>\n<p>Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng today announced that PKR&#8217;s Penanti state assemblyperson Muhammad Fairuz Khairuddin and DAP&#8217;s Perai representative P Ramasamy would be made the state&#8217;s deputy chief ministers. Muhammad Fairuz will be the Deputy CM 1 and <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Ramasamy, the Deputy CM 2.<\/span><br \/>\nLim, who was sworn in yesterday, said the decision to pick the duo was to have a leadership to represent all communities in Penang.\u00a0 This is the first time <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>an Indian has been awarded such a high post in Malaysia<\/strong><\/span>.<br \/>\nThe state&#8217;s executive council will consist of seven members from DAP and three from PKR. Meanwhile, both speaker and deputy speaker of the state assembly will be from PKR.<br \/>\nThe lone PAS state assemblyperson, who has been left out of the DAP-PKR government, has said he will cooperate with the state government.<\/p>\n<p>The DAP-led opposition made a clean sweep in Penang in the last general election, totally wiping out the BN&#8217;s hold in the island state.&#8221;<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, looks like the rumours are becoming true! For the first time in history, in the 51st year of our Independence, the Indian community gets a Deputy Chief Minister. Its a good beginning since the country is starting to acknowledge other communities by offering more responsibilities.<\/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":[119,130,90],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-dap","tag-election-2008","tag-role-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","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=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}