{"id":1921,"date":"2008-05-16T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T04:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/05\/16\/rhina-bhar-quits-gerakan-citing-racial-bias\/"},"modified":"2008-05-16T11:47:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T03:47:15","slug":"rhina-bhar-quits-gerakan-citing-racial-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/05\/16\/rhina-bhar-quits-gerakan-citing-racial-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhina Bhar quits Gerakan citing racial bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was VP some time back, and after stepping down, no news in the media about her. Guess its time to move on (or jump ship?).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"100%\" \/><strong>Rhina Bhar quits Gerakan after 30 years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/5\/16\/nation\/21268011&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PENANG: Former Gerakan vice-president and Wanita national chairman Datuk Rhina Bhar has quit the party after 30 years, citing racial bias in the leadership. &#8220;It is impossible for me to continue working under the present conditions,&#8221; she said.\u00a0 &#8220;Gerakan is to be a multiracial party but<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> the leaders have been making many racist remarks<\/span><\/strong>. Enough is enough,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Rhina, 59, who tendered her resignation on Monday, also hit out at Gerakan adviser Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik for &#8220;practising double standards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rhina also expressed <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">her disappointment over Gerakan acting president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon&#8217;s comments for not fielding any Indian candidates in the last general election<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Both Dr Koh and Dr Lim could not be reached for comments.<\/p>\n<p>The Bukit Bendera Gerakan Wanita chief said she was taking a break from politics to &#8220;heal her broken heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I am keeping my options open <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>to consider joining other political parties or non-governmental organisations,<\/strong><\/span> which can provide me an opportunity to serve the people,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was VP some time back, and after stepping down, no news in the media about her. Guess its time to move on (or jump ship?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[112,70],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-discrimination","tag-gerakan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","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=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}