{"id":2322,"date":"2008-09-09T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/09\/09\/kohilan-wins-gerakan-selangor-state-chairman-post\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T14:21:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T06:21:31","slug":"kohilan-wins-gerakan-selangor-state-chairman-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/09\/09\/kohilan-wins-gerakan-selangor-state-chairman-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohilan wins Gerakan Selangor State Chairman post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Other than a certain Ahmad who may well cause another 13th May incident (if we are to believe a pendatang&#8217;s son from Indonesia), one other news was of interest over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Senator Kohilan Pllay <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/9\/7\/nation\/20080907200937&amp;sec=nation\">became the first <\/a>non-Chinese to win the Selangor state chairman position. He beat the incumbent Datuk Lum Weng Keong 187-175. I could probably reason that his position as Deputy Minister and Senatorship meant that if he lost, it will be a big blow to Gerakan&#8217;s multi-racial aims, but I won&#8217;t said it out loud \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Gerakan is trying hard to shed their one-race party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Kohilan, buoyed by the win, seem to set his sights on higher platform:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Asked if he would contest for the vice-president post, he said he would leave it to the party&#8217;s leadership to decide, although he had received support from many members<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">All the best to Kohilan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other than a certain Ahmad who may well cause another 13th May incident (if we are to believe a pendatang&#8217;s son from Indonesia), one other news was of interest over the weekend. Senator Kohilan Pllay became the first non-Chinese to win the Selangor state chairman position. He beat the incumbent Datuk Lum Weng Keong 187-175. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[196,70,225],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-elections","tag-gerakan","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}