I’ve seen HINDRAF being accused of representing on Hindu, but never were there anything mentioned about representing only Tamils. In fact, those who attend the rallies and functions come from all kinds of sub-groups. Even Malaysian Chinese and Malays have supported them. Not sure how Mahathir connected 2 and 2, getting 5. May old age is indeed catching up with him.<\/p>\n
They must know that Hindraf represents Tamil racists who still look to their old masters, the British, to protect them. They don’t believe in Malaysian institutions.<\/p>\n
And they speak not just of Indians but of Tamils as a separate race. They and their apologists are racist to the core.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As for the other part of the accusation, Mahathir said that Samy Vellu was the stumbling block for other Indian parties to join BN. This is an open secret, and bearing in mind that BN is supposed to work on consensus, that means all the coalition parties are equally guilty for tolerating MIC. They could have easily kicked out MIC and accepted other parties like IPF into BN. Most probably MIC leaders will jump ship and joined IPF. Later MIC will come and join back BN as well.<\/p>\n
Did MIC lose because of Samy Vellu as claimed by Mahathir? Of course! It is one of the major factors, but not the ONLY factor.<\/p>\n
Mahathir said he will reveal the statements Samy Vellu said while Mahathir was the PM. Well, bring them on. It will only help to remove Samy Vellu from MIC faster.<\/p>\n
My opinion is that, these guys were in cohorts while in power. When the blame game starts, all the juicy secrets will come out. For more than 2 decades, we have seen the leadership of Mahathir and Samy running the country. These people are politicians, who will lie through the skin of their teeth to achieve the ambition and safeguard their position. When in power, they did not dare to reveal the shortcoming or criminal activities of each other, but now when retired or out of position, the can freely blame everyone else. What a lowlife!<\/p>\n
BTW, what would he say about all those UMNO people? ultra-racists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mahathir in his blog, labeled Samy Vellu as racist for the flimsiest of reasons: for asking HINDRAF ISA detainees to be released. He says Samy supports Hindraf.\u00a0 He then goes on to spin a yarn that HINDRAF are bringing violent racial politics like in Sri Lanka to our country. If I remember correctly, the authorities […]<\/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":[225],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}