{"id":2610,"date":"2008-11-12T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/11\/12\/pm-praised-murugiah\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T22:37:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T14:37:42","slug":"pm-praised-murugiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/11\/12\/pm-praised-murugiah\/","title":{"rendered":"PM praised Murugiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Even though he was called a school boy, and being investigated by his own party president, Murugiah still maintain his cool. I guess he thinks that Kayveas&#8217; days are numbered.<\/p>\n<p>Murugiah also checkmates future attacking moves by announcing that PM Badawi himself <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/11\/12\/nation\/2521251&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">praised him<\/a>. So Kayveas, Saravanan, Syed Hamid etc. can keep their less-than-smart and annoying comments to themselves. Only that there&#8217;s a small matter of getting endorsement from PM-in-waiting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deputy Minister in Prime Minister\u2019s Department Senator T. Murugiah,<br \/>\nwhose aggressiveness in overseeing the Public Complaints Bureau has<br \/>\nlanded him in trouble with his party boss, claims he has been praised<br \/>\nby the Prime Minister.Murugiah, who is the PPP Youth chief,<br \/>\nsaid he recently received a call from Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi<br \/>\nto see him in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was on medical leave then. When I<br \/>\nmet him, he praised me and said I was doing a good job (with the<br \/>\nbureau). What more do you want?\u201d he told reporters after chairing a<br \/>\nmeeting between residents in Kg Pandan and City Hall authorities at his<br \/>\noffice yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Adding<br \/>\nthat he had \u201cno issue\u201d with Kayveas, Murugiah said he had met the<br \/>\nlatter on Monday and that \u201che had then said nothing about the letter\u201d<br \/>\nto him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have my job to do and I don\u2019t have a choice about<br \/>\nthis. He (Kayveas) is my boss and mentor, and he groomed me. I am<br \/>\nalways grateful to him,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though he was called a school boy, and being investigated by his own party president, Murugiah still maintain his cool. I guess he thinks that Kayveas&#8217; days are numbered. Murugiah also checkmates future attacking moves by announcing that PM Badawi himself praised him. So Kayveas, Saravanan, Syed Hamid etc. can keep their less-than-smart and [&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":[225,120],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-politicians","tag-ppp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","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=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}