{"id":2069,"date":"2008-06-19T00:02:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T16:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/19\/prof-ramasamy-for-all-community\/"},"modified":"2008-06-19T00:02:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T16:02:52","slug":"prof-ramasamy-for-all-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/19\/prof-ramasamy-for-all-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Ramasamy for all community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reiterating his earlier statement, Prof Ramasamy clarifies that he represents all community, not only Indians. There have been <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/04\/26\/penang-indian-assemblymen-under-fire\/\">heavy criticism<\/a> from Indian DAP members themselves, which Prof attributed to a minority voice of discontent. There were also unhappiness when he supposedly said that &#8220;he did not represent the indian community&#8221;, which Prof Ramasamy <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/04\/27\/prof-ramasamy-replies-to-critics\/\">denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;However, they cannot expect us to resolve all the problems involving Indians overnight. We have to handle the situation delicately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been trying hard to change the mindset of not only the Indians, but also other races. We have adopted a multiracial approach to handling issues. I am an Indian, but I don&#8217;t hold an Indian affairs portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many Indians still come and see me because of their mindset that Rama (Ramasamy) is an Indian and he must be in charge of Indian affairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tell them, look, the state government represents all communities and if they have problems involving local government issues, they have to see the executive council member in charge of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is difficult to satisfy every wish of all segments of society, but we are trying our best. We are taking a gradual approach to right the wrongs and make Penang a glorious place to live in once again.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Tuesday\/National\/2269731\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reiterating his earlier statement, Prof Ramasamy clarifies that he represents all community, not only Indians. There have been heavy criticism from Indian DAP members themselves, which Prof attributed to a minority voice of discontent. There were also unhappiness when he supposedly said that &#8220;he did not represent the indian community&#8221;, which Prof Ramasamy denied. \u00a0&#8220;However, [&hellip;]<\/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":[143,225],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-penang","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","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=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}