{"id":2185,"date":"2008-07-10T23:44:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/07\/10\/hindraf-unhappy-with-pakatan-rakyat-in-perak\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:44:44","slug":"hindraf-unhappy-with-pakatan-rakyat-in-perak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/07\/10\/hindraf-unhappy-with-pakatan-rakyat-in-perak\/","title":{"rendered":"HINDRAF unhappy with Pakatan Rakyat in Perak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">HINDRAF is unhappy because only 48 Indian councillors were selected from a total of 338 appointed by Perak on Monday. The rest are as follows: 134 Chinese, 124 Malays, five representatives from special groups, such as Orang Asli and disabled people, and 27 from NGOs.<\/p>\n<p>Surely the disabled and NGO representatives are from one race or another right?<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/85927\">According<\/a> to HINDRAF&#8217; memorandum sent to Menteri Besar Nizar, 60 councillors were promised to be from the Indian community, but only 48 were selected in the end. This is just 7 more than the number of councillor under the previous government. The delegation to submit memorandum was led by Perak Hindraf coordinator Vathe Murthi.<\/p>\n<p>Further more, figures from Statistics Department indicate that 13% of the state&#8217;s population (300,000) are Indians.<\/p>\n<p>Hindraf wants the new government to revert back to its promise and also initiate affirmative policies to provide vast opportunities in all fields in both public and private sectors to marginalised Indians.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s pointless to merely talk on correcting the wrongs done by the<br \/>\nprevious BN state government when one failed to prove it\u2019s a government<br \/>\nwith a difference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HINDRAF warned that Nizar should act firmly, fairly and meet its demands. If not the movement may resort to other means (demonstration) to voice their satisfaction. Pakatan should not forget the contribution of Makkal Sakthi, says its coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Can Hindraf cause another tsunami, this time in Perak? Can Pakatan be rattled or toppled by Makkal Sakthi?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HINDRAF is unhappy because only 48 Indian councillors were selected from a total of 338 appointed by Perak on Monday. The rest are as follows: 134 Chinese, 124 Malays, five representatives from special groups, such as Orang Asli and disabled people, and 27 from NGOs. Surely the disabled and NGO representatives are from one race [&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":[21,103,165,148],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-marginalisation","tag-pakatan-rakyat","tag-perak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","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=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}