{"id":7457,"date":"2011-06-20T22:26:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2011-06-20T22:26:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:26:34","slug":"mic-says-400000-malaysian-indians-not-registered-as-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2011\/06\/20\/mic-says-400000-malaysian-indians-not-registered-as-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC says 400000 Malaysian Indians not registered as voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me clarify: Malaysian Indian here means Malaysian of Indian origin\/descent\/ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>So, we got 400,000 makkal not interested or ignorant on voting. \u00a0That would be a big chunk of eligible makkal voters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MIC leaders should register more voters to make Indians \u201ca powerful vote bloc\u201d as this would allow the community to get concessions from the Govern-ment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MIC\u00a0president Datuk G. Palanivel said some 400,000 Indians had yet to register as voters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He called on the party\u2019s 4,000 branch chairmen to get them registered, saying that they should target one new voter each month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palanivel said many issues were plaguing the community that needed to be resolved, especially healthcare, poverty, scholarships, allocations and employment op-portunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Government needs to address these issues because the community is not in the mainstream but has become a sub-stream community,\u201d he said, adding that the community can de-mand for more recognition and help by forming a strong voting bloc.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/6\/20\/nation\/8933538&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/6\/20\/nation\/8933538&amp;sec=nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me clarify: Malaysian Indian here means Malaysian of Indian origin\/descent\/ancestry. So, we got 400,000 makkal not interested or ignorant on voting. \u00a0That would be a big chunk of eligible makkal voters. &nbsp; MIC leaders should register more voters to make Indians \u201ca powerful vote bloc\u201d as this would allow the community to get concessions [&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":[196,24,225],"class_list":["post-7457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-elections","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457","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=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7460,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions\/7460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}