The more the grass root Indian can write to Pak Lah about Sam the better. Pak Lah would soon realise Sam is a political liabilty.
I am posting here when YB Lim revealed that last week the Prime Minsiter has made Sam Head of Hindu Affairs. What a joke.

23 Dec 2007

Y.A.B. DATO SERI ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI
Prime Minister of Malaysia
Block Utama
Bangunan Perdana Putra Fax: 03-88883444
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan
62502 Putrajaya

Dear Prime Minster

As an educated rubber estate worker, hailing from Kamuning Estate, Sungei Siput, I must question your wisdom in appointing Mr. Samy Velu of the Malaysian Indian Congress and the Minister for Public Works with the additional portfolio as Head of Hindu Affairs. Your unilateral decision without any consultation on the private community affairs is depoloarable.

This appointment once again reinforces and facilitates the polarisation of the various ethnic communities and capsulates them for easy social and political manipulation. It prevents the integration of Malaysians into one mainstream society with diverse political ideologies. Your action fences ethnic divisions and reinforces community divide based on race. This is abhorrent in the 21st century.

The British in granting the independence in 1957, segmented the Malayan population into their respective ethnic groupings, ( the British tend to label every non Anglo-Saxons as ethnic communities even now ) and since the Malayan Independence, as long as 50 years ago, the Malaysians have been capsulated into their respective ethnic enclaves, unable to crossover from their respective racial boundary into a mainstream society as Malaysians. In fact the BN dominated government has deliberately prevented the creation of a single mainstream Malaysian society. Racial divide is the order of the day, preventing a cohesive nation of pluralistic society. These racial classification has been slyly crafted for decades of sneaky politicians for the purposes of social and political control based on misplaced tribal loyalty of race.

Mr. Samy Velu revels in this form of segregation, as his political intellect is limited to questionable MIC leadership hinged on Indian tribalism. He is bankrupt of other political ethos or ideology.

Now, Sir, you have unilaterally appointed him as the Head of Hindu Affairs, as an additional tool of political power, at the expense of private Hindu religious activities. Sir, ethnicity, social customs and religious values should not be politicised in the modern day governance of a State. Race and religions are the private domains of the individual citizens and the community and they should be left alone, free of any form State sponsored political interference. This is the foundation of a strong nation. Political parties has no right to intervene in these private affairs of the respective communities, otherwise you are courting disaster.

Your move to appoint Samy Velu has the head of the Hindu Affairs shows lack of sensitivity on your part. The century old social and religious values and social customs do not need a half baked politician like Mr. Samy Velu to lead as the head. This only gives him more unqualified power to suppress the Indian community, and, Sir, we will desist and resist him more at the grass root level. He will attempt to politicise our private affairs for his own personal and political purpose. This, we at the grass root level will prevent.

As the political representative of the Indian community in Malaysia, mandated to work for the benefits of the Indians, with integrity and in a fair and fit manner, he is expected to be transparent. We at the grass root level has asked him to take the lead and voluntarily declare all his assets, owned by him and his immediate family members , including those involved in MICA and publicly disclose all his assets. He is refusing to do so. He is purported to have vast amount of assets accumulated in Malaysia, Australia, India and rest of the world. We have advised Mr. Velu to forgo some of his personal privacy as he is an elected leader, and that such an act of disclosure would be in the interest of the wider Indian community.

His total assets would may well reveal that it is not disproportionate to, and within the means, of his full time Ministerial salary, . This would allay the common perception, currently held by the Indian community, that his personal vast wealth has uniqueness of enormity, to that of a Indian leader charged with the Ministerial power on behalf of the millions of the Malaysian Indians.

It is not uncommon for the Malaysian government to allocate the share of national wealth for the Indians through the Malaysian Indian Congress in which Mr. Samy Velu is the head and as such he has the responsibility to the community to be transparent and accountable. The 9miilion telecom shares, of the 10 million share, allocated to Indians, is alleged to have been diverted to his son’s company and this issue is still in the minds of the Indians. Even though the Anti Corruption Agency, that was under the direct control of his friend the previous Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr. Mahahathir, has given him a clean bill of health, the prevalent perception of the Indian community still sees him under a cloud on this issue. The community is suspicion as to how he would have these vast wealth, which is well known, that he is alleged to have accumulated all over the world, and that such vastness is disproportionate to his fixed monthly minsters salary. I am sure you would like to ask him, as the Prime Minster of the country, to put an end to such community perceptions with facts. Further as a representative of the Indian community and head of MIC, through whom and which body, most of the government benefits for the Indian community have been channelled through, like the 10ml Telecom shares, he has an obligation to be transparent, and sacrifice some personal privacy for the common benefit of the Indian community as its leader. This is expected of community leaders through whom the government has opted to channel its share of national wealth now and than.

I therefore call upon to Government to :

· Dismantle government institutions that reinforces the race of it citizens

· Cease to allocate national share of wealth through the racially constituted political parties for the Indians and the Chinese

· Deliver government benefits and services without having to go through racially constituted political parties,

· Cease to intervene as form in the private social and religious affairs of the citizens for political control and social engineering,

· Regard the demand of HINDRAF leaders as genuine and not hand it over to MIC

· Release the HINDRAF leaders forthwith

As the general election is expected soon, we in the grass root level is committed to unseat Samy Velu and make MIC irrelevant, for his past antics and failure to safeguard the interests of the Indian Community.

Yours faithfully.

Robert Chelliah

Mr. Samy Velu
President
MIC
KL

Good morning Mr Velu,

In yesterday’s The Star you referred to Malaysia as the country of adoption for the Malaysian Indians. Do you understand what this terms means. This is what migrants refer to the country into which they have migrated to, Australia, UK and USA, not born in. You may not have the knowledge to use proper political terms, so I suggest sometimes it pays to have your lips gummed or seek intelligent counsel if you really have something useful to say. As a Malaysian, born of Indian parents, I find your remark offensive and lacking in political intellect. You are not talking to the uninitiated. Please don’t ever forget, there are educated Indians who have put you on judgement.

As far as Malaysian Indian are concerned, Malaysia is their country of birth with full birth rights equal to all and everyone in the country. I am a third generation Malaysian born and brought up in Perak, more precisely in Kammuning estate, not far from the estate where you were a Mandore or clerk along Lintang Road.

By your ill conceived utterance of the term, country of adoption, you are further alienation Indians of people of their rights in their own country. UMNO members may well reward you more. It is most unfortunate the majority of Malaysian Indians are served by individuals like you.

In future please think before you utter nonsense.

May Lord Murga expdite the process of Karma as it is written for you.

Anak Sungei Siput

We are the enlightened ones. blogging within our field. Every one of us should be thinking as to what role can each one of should undertake prior to the GE to promote the oppostiton and deny the MIC and the BS components parties to reduce their votes significantly.

Most of the rural voting Indians are exposed to simple carrots from the MIC during election days.

The opposition parties, not many though, will have to be assisted to (financial, voluteers, house to house cold calls etc) to attract the family vote to DAP and non-BN compliant parties.

As for Nallas party i would not caste a single vote as Datok Nalla has pledged his unquestioning loyalty to BN. My view is that he may well turn out to be another Samy Velu.