{"id":727,"date":"2007-11-20T07:45:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/11\/20\/mic-says-ignore-calls-to-attend-rally\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T23:45:12","slug":"mic-says-ignore-calls-to-attend-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/11\/20\/mic-says-ignore-calls-to-attend-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC says ignore calls to attend rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/11\/20\/nation\/19518381&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIC: Ignore calls to attend rally <\/p>\n<p> KUALA LUMPUR: The Indian community has been advised to ignore calls by certain groups urging them to attend a rally at the British High Commission this Sunday to protest against the demolition of an Indian temple in Klang.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> MIC secretary-general Datuk S. Veerasingam said the party had informed its members not to attend the gathering. He claimed the event was being held for the benefit of the Opposition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;There are SMSes calling participants to go against the authorities. Such matters will create a tense situation and innocent people will get caught while the perpetrators will walk free,&#8221; he added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Veerasingam said the MIC would discuss what action to take against its members who attend the gathering. He added that several social activists had acted irresponsibly by inciting the Indian community to hate the Government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;These people are not assisting the Government in solving problems affecting the Indian community. We have no problem with social activists. But this past week, the community has been confused by the actions of this group, including four lawyers, which we believe will only help the Opposition,&#8221; said Veerasingam at the Parliament lobby yesterday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n He added that problems could be settled through proper channels in the coalition government. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> In SEREMBAN, police raided the office of lawyer and Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) head P. Waythamoorthy at Kemayan Square yesterday for allegedly possessing seditious materials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n The 10-man team arrived at Waythamoorthy&#8217;s office at about 3.30pm and spent more than an hour searching for documents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Waythamoorthy said the police had a search warrant, but the raid was an attempt to intimidate him and others not to attend a mass gathering this Sunday outside the British High Commission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Waythamoorthy said the policemen took away several documents from his office including copies of letters he had written to the United Nations secretary-general, the Prime Minister and the Inspector General of Police on matters relating to the plight of the Indian community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n He said the police also took photographs at this office, adding that this was not provided for under the warrant conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n His brother Uthayakumar&#8217;s office in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, was also raided at the same time. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> City CID chief Senior Asst Comm 11 Ku Chin Wah said: &#8220;The raid follows a report lodged by a civilian at the end of July regarding a book deemed to be seditious.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source MIC: Ignore calls to attend rally KUALA LUMPUR: The Indian community has been advised to ignore calls by certain groups urging them to attend a rally at the British High Commission this Sunday to protest against the demolition of an Indian temple in Klang.&nbsp; MIC secretary-general Datuk S. Veerasingam said the party had informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21,24,225,27,275,105,22],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-mic","tag-politicians","tag-protest","tag-temples","tag-uthaya","tag-waytha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}