{"id":2423,"date":"2008-10-07T09:34:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T01:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/10\/07\/gerakan-vice-president-aspirant-parameswaran-promises-240-new-members\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T04:19:38","slug":"gerakan-vice-president-aspirant-parameswaran-promises-240-new-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/10\/07\/gerakan-vice-president-aspirant-parameswaran-promises-240-new-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerakan vice president aspirant Parameswaran promises 240 new members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting promise by the Ampang Gerakan division chairman G. Parameswaran, who is vying for one the vice-president&#8217;s posts. He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Tuesday\/National\/2368185\/Article\/index_html\">plans to recruit<\/a> more than 240 Malay and Indian members if he wins. Well, one may ask why not 500 or 1000? Why 240? Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, best of luck to him. Some of his comments are below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Gerakan has always been a multicultural party. While the opposition is now championing that cause, we were the original. Somewhere along the way, we had become MCA&#8217;s younger sibling,&#8221; he said, referring to Gerakan&#8217;s Chinese majority makeup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that the party fielded all Chinese candidates in the last election didn&#8217;t help. That alienated voters,&#8221; said the 51-year-old businessman whose father previously worked as a gardener in Parliament House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The grassroots are asking for a change. They say if Gerakan is a real multiracial party, then the leadership has to reflect that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting promise by the Ampang Gerakan division chairman G. Parameswaran, who is vying for one the vice-president&#8217;s posts. He plans to recruit more than 240 Malay and Indian members if he wins. Well, one may ask why not 500 or 1000? Why 240? Your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, best of luck to [&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":[196,70],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-elections","tag-gerakan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}