source<\/a><\/p>\nKUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s estranged friend and former tennis partner Datuk K.S. Nallakaruppan met with Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Wednesday to pledge his full support to the Prime Minister. The meeting, however, lasted only for five minutes, as the Prime Minister was busy. “He said he would fix another appointment,” he told reporters at the Parliament lobby.<\/p>\n
Nallakaruppan denied that Abdullah was a weak leader, and on his way out.\u00a0 “To me, he is a good leader. That’s why I have come to support him. He’s my Prime Minister and I have to trust him and I have to love him,” he added.<\/p>\n
Nallakaruppan, who was formerly with PKR, said he did not believe Anwar’s claims that he had enough Barisan Nasional MPs who wanted to crossover to topple the Barisan Federal government.\u00a0 “All the time he bluffs me, so I take this as one of his lies,” said the 61-year-old businessman.\u00a0 “Morning, his face is different, afternoon his face is again different and night it is different too. “I don’t believe him and I don’t trust him.”<\/p>\n
Nallakaruppan said he had tolerated Anwar, whom he described as someone “who did not know how to value friendship,” for more than 30 years. “Now I want to keep my distance,” he added.<\/p>\n
To a question he said, Anwar could be the Prime Minister in waiting for as long as he liked. “He can wait. I thought he will change, but he has not,” he added.<\/p>\n
Nallakaruppan quit PKR last May after a rift with Anwar over not being chosen as the candidate for the Ijok by-election. Barisan Nasional won the by-election. He then went on to set up his own party, Malaysian Indian United Party (MUIP).<\/p>\n
Nallakaruppan, who is the president, said he had applied for MUIP to join Barisan. He believed that MIUP would get better support under Barisan.<\/p>\n
Describing MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu as a good friend, he said: “He taught me a lot of things when I was young. He can also be my guru.”<\/p>\n
Nalla: Anwar lying on crossovers<\/strong>
\nFauwaz Abdul Aziz & S Pathmawathy | May 21, 08 5:41pm<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/83221
\nMalaysian Indian United Party (MIUP) president KS Nallakaruppan today claimed that PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim was not telling the truth by claiming that scores of Barisan Nasional parliamentarians will crossover to the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition soon. “He is lying. I don’t believe him, and I don’t trust him,” he said of Anwar when met by reporters in the lobby of Parliament this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Nallakaruppan, who has previously said he had known Anwar personally for 30 years, had a falling out with the former deputy premier and current leader of Pakatan after claiming that he was \u2018stabbed in the back’ by Anwar. According to Nallakaruppan, the falling-out was over the 2007 by-election in Ijok, Selangor as well as the contest for one of PKR’s three vice-presidents’ posts. “This character and myself, we cannot get along. I tolerated him for 30 years. Now I want to stay away,” he added.<\/p>\n
After Pakatan’s overwhelming victory in the general election, Anwar has claimed that he has about 30 BN parliamentarians ready to defect to his side, thus allowing him to form the government. He has given a September deadline for a change in the government.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters after a brief meeting with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in Parliament today, Nallakaruppan said that he was there to give his support to the embattled Abdullah.\u00a0 He said that the meeting with Abdullah was arranged with the help of his friend, Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Hamzah Zainuddin, and was to allow him to express his support for Abdullah and Barisan Nasional.<\/p>\n
\u2018I love my PM’<\/strong><\/p>\nAsked why he was doing so while certain parties were claiming Abdullah lacked leadership qualities and that Abdullah was on his way out, Nallakaruppan said he does not think Abdullah was a weak leader. “He is a good leader. That’s why I came to (express my) support,” he said. Asked further, Nallakaruppan said: “I have to trust my prime minister. I have to love my prime minister.”<\/p>\n
He also said he had applied after the March 8 general election in writing to Abdullah for MIUP to be accepted into BN, and will accept any decision – positive or otherwise – from the BN chairperson. “I hope for the best. He’s got the right to accept or reject (the application),” said Nallakaruppan.<\/p>\n
On his own party, Nallakaruppan said it was getting more support, and hoped that BN’s acceptance of MIUP would lead more people to become members.\u00a0 He also said there is nothing wrong with BN having an additional Indian-based party “as long as every party can support the people.”<\/p>\n
Previously similar applications by other Indian-based parties have been rejected by the MIC on the grounds that that party alone was sufficient to cater for the needs of the Indian community.\u00a0 When pointed out that his application may face similar objections, Nallakaruppan said MIC president S Samy Vellu was “a good friend”.\u00a0 “He taught me a lot of things when I was young.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Now, this is interesting. A public meeting arranged between Nalla and PM (5 minutes only). Again, Nalla uses this chance to blast Anwar. In the same breath, he talked about his party MIUP joining BN, even though MIC has always opposed another Indian party joining BN. He says Samy Vellu is like a “guru”. Well, […]<\/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":[131,60,225],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-bn","tag-miup","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","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=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}