{"id":2210,"date":"2008-07-17T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T06:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/07\/17\/hindraf-wants-to-meet-pm\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T06:21:16","slug":"hindraf-wants-to-meet-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/07\/17\/hindraf-wants-to-meet-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"HINDRAF wants to meet PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second attempt<\/a> by HINDRAF, the first attempt<\/a> made after the November 25 rally. It goes without saying that their attempt failed. I doubt it will succeed this time as well. What more with Waytha facing<\/a> ISA if he returns and Uthaya already in ISA detention.The call was made by Waythamoorthy via an press statement. According to him, Badawi should have a dialogue with leaders of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) if he is sincere in his efforts to improve the lives of the Indian community in the country. The dialogue should be a closed-door affair and on a one-to-one basis between Abdullah and,
\neither himself or detained Hindraf legal adviser, P Uthayakumar. He told Malaysiakini via telephone that:<\/p>\n

If the prime minister and his government are sincere and honest in wanting to resolve all outstanding issues on the political and socio-economic status of Malaysian Indians, I am prepared to return for the dialogue session. I am prepared to return to Malaysia to have a dialogue with the prime minister. But only the prime minister and not any other political leader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, Waythamoorthy is convinced that Abdullah would detain him under the Internal Security Act if he returned to attend the dialogue. (that goes without saying!)<\/p>\n

Waythamoorthy called for the dialogue with Abdullah because the prime minister\u2019s office was the “rightful authority” in the country to resolve the problems facing the Indians.<\/p>\n

He also said that HINDRAF will focus on its 18 point memorandum during the discussion.<\/p>\n

Since the cabinet committee<\/a> has been created, I doubt the government will even consider HINDRAF’s proposal. And nothing will happen without MIC being involved as its the BN spirit not to sideline its coalition members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the second attempt by HINDRAF, the first attempt made after the November 25 rally. It goes without saying that their attempt failed. I doubt it will succeed this time as well. What more with Waytha facing ISA if he returns and Uthaya already in ISA detention.The call was made by Waythamoorthy via an […]<\/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":[21,22],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-waytha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}