{"id":5704,"date":"2009-09-25T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T01:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2009-09-25T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T01:31:59","slug":"malaysian-makkal-sakthi-party-launch-by-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/09\/25\/malaysian-makkal-sakthi-party-launch-by-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Makkal Sakthi Party launch by PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I guess the guardian of Indian community won&#8217;t be squirming in his seat. After all, previous leaders have graced functions by PPP or IPF. But the move by PM Najib to <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/9\/25\/nation\/4782727&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>launch a new party<\/strong><\/a> is interesting to the Indian community. Especially more so when the new party is very much linked to HINDRAF. I still remember ex-PM Badawi saying &#8220;who are they&#8221; (referring to HINDRAF) in 2007. Anyway, its an open secret that MMSP got its application super-fast-tracked by ROS\u00a0 due to orders from the top.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister has accepted the invitation to launch the newly-formed Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party on Oct 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Party secretary-general Kannan Ramasamy said the Prime Minister accepted the invitation in late August to be the guest-of-honour at the party\u2019s official launch scheduled to be held at 10am at the Malaysia Agricultural Exposition Park in Serdang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are happy that he has accepted the invitation and we feel it is a good start for us with the Prime Minister launching our party,\u201d said Kannan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party, which was officially registered early this year, is a splinter group of the outlawed Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) which organised anti-government rallies in November 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although a large number of pioneering Hindraf members appeared to still be anti-establishment, Kannan and party president R. S. Thanenthiran ? both Hindraf coordinators ? have made peace with the Government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, will MMSP be in the mould of IPF, a BN supporter but remaining outside the coalition, with the lure of Senatorship for its leaders, special appoinments and cabinet positions a strong possibility after the next general elections?\u00a0 Or will infighting, sabotage, and other malaise affect it, eventually condemning the party into oblivion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the guardian of Indian community won&#8217;t be squirming in his seat. After all, previous leaders have graced functions by PPP or IPF. But the move by PM Najib to launch a new party is interesting to the Indian community. Especially more so when the new party is very much linked to HINDRAF. I [&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":[21,231,122,225],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-mmsp","tag-najib-tun-razak","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","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=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}