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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 Kamuuning 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 of the strange Minister of Hindu Affairs. This appointment once again reinforces and facilitates the polarisation of the various ethnic communities. It prevents the integration of Malaysians into one mainstream society with diverse political ideologies. Your action fences ethnic divisions and creates 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 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 by decades of politicians for the purposes of social and political control based on tribal loyalty based on race. Mr. Samy Velu revels in this form of segregation as his political intellect is limited to execute his questionable MIC leadership solely based on Indian tribalism. He is bankrupt 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 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. Our private century old social and religious values and social customs do not need a half baked politician like Mr. Samy Velu 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 to 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 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. 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.
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.
RKC (Ex Kamunning Estate Worker)
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