source<\/a> <\/p>\nBy JANE RITIKOS<\/b><\/p>\n
KUALA LUMPUR: The Indians here have been led to believe that they will each get a huge sum of money as compensation in the class action suit filed by the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) against the British Government, said MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu. Samy Vellu said this was how Hindraf had been gathering support from the Indians here for its plan to hold a gathering in front of the British High Commission this Sunday. <\/p>\n
The gathering is to submit a petition with 100,000 signatures to Queen Elizabeth II to appoint a Queen’s Counsel to represent the Indian community in the suit. <\/p>\n
“According to them (Hindraf), the Indians in the country are still deprived. They are dreaming of big support (for the rally) and told the people that they would get RM1mil compensation per Indian from the British Government. “Many Indians are thinking that they will get RM1mil from them. Let them get RM1mil. I also want to join them and take RM1mil from them,” he told reporters after attending a Deepavali gathering organised by Tenaga Nasional Berhad yesterday. <\/p>\n
The class action suit was filed at The Royal Courts of Justice in London in August against the British Government for bringing in Indians as indentured labourers into Malaya and exploiting them for 150 years and thereafter failing to protect the minority Indians rights in the Federal Constitution when independence was granted. It was reported that the sum sought was US$4tril (RM13.5tril) or US$1mil (RM3.4mil) for every Indian residing in Malaysia. <\/p>\n
\n To a question, Samy Vellu said he would not stop any MIC member from joining the gathering. “Those who want to join anything, that’s their business. We will not tell them (not to),” he said, but added that the people “must use their own head” in deciding whether joining the gathering was the right thing to do. <\/p>\n
\n Meanwhile, the police said they have rejected Hindraf’s application for a permit to hold the gathering on Sunday. Cheras OCPD Asst Comm Ahmad Amer Mohd Hashim said he received the application letter on Nov 7 but decided on Nov 16 not to issue a permit as the rally could pose a disturbance to the public. He said Hindraf could appeal again through city police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Zulhasnan Baharuddin by today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We will not tell them (not to) says Samy. – indirect support??? anyway, MIC said they will monitor if any members are attending it, so they themselves should be sending many people to do the "monitoring". Finding excuse to attend? \ud83d\ude42 Indians ‘lured by reward’ source By JANE RITIKOS KUALA LUMPUR: The Indians here have […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}