{"id":2206,"date":"2008-07-16T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T02:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/07\/16\/oppskimma-does-it-again\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:20:14","slug":"oppskimma-does-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/07\/16\/oppskimma-does-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Opps&#8230;KIMMA does it again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Is this another candidate for Malaysian Book of Records? Or maybe Guinness even? Can&#8217;t blame these guys for not trying. This time, KIMMA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/7\/16\/nation\/21833383&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">decides<\/a> to join the protest bandwagon and says that it will organise a protest of 10,000 people (looks like have to close quite a few mamak shops for half day) and hand in memorandum (READ: fill up garbage bin) to PM&#8217;s Office.Its president Muhammed Ali Naina Mohd said that they had applied to be Barisan Nasional members five times, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/7\/16\/nation\/21833383&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">had been rejected every time<\/a>. Well, that&#8217;s pretty obvious. If you are applying for 6th time, it means the last 5 times failed.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that KIMMA is one of the biggest loser since there were no Indian Muslim councillors, senators or MPs from Kimma.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if they had considered joining the Pakatan Rakyat government, the president of KIMMA said it \u201cis under consideration\u201d but they had never applied.<\/p>\n<p>I thought KIMMA is already IN BN by <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/18\/kimma-joins-ppp\/\" target=\"_blank\">virtue of joining<\/a> with PPP? KIMMA also <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/27\/indian-muslims-demand-for-bumiputra-status\/\" target=\"_blank\">asked<\/a> for bumiputera status, but most likely not entertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this another candidate for Malaysian Book of Records? Or maybe Guinness even? Can&#8217;t blame these guys for not trying. This time, KIMMA decides to join the protest bandwagon and says that it will organise a protest of 10,000 people (looks like have to close quite a few mamak shops for half day) and hand [&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":[131,121],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-bn","tag-kimma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","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=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}