The High Court has allowed Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar to challenge the Home Minister and Registrar of Societies to reply to his application to register the Human Rights Party as a political party.
On Friday, High Court judge Justice Rohana Yusuf granted the leave application.
The court will hear on August 16 the merits of Uthaya's judicial review application for the respondents to approve and register HRP as a political party.
Uthaya, himself a lawyer, said the respondents had now to reply within 14 days to his November 25 application to register the party or go to court in August.
A thorn in the flesh of the BN
Uthaya is seeking a mandamus order for the respondents to approve and register the HRP in accordance with provisions in the Federal Constitution and the Societies Act 1966.
Hishammuddin Hussein, the current Home Minister, and the ROS had rejected the HRP application on March 29, 2011.
According to Uthaya, he has been applying for HRP to be registered since 2000, when it was then called Parti Reformasi Insan Malaysia.
“The respondents have acted with mala fide, by refusing to register HRP,” he had said in his application, adding that “selective approval” was practised by the respondents when approving and registering parties.
Indeed, Uthaya has been a thorn in the flesh of the BN lawmakers. The Hindraf founder led a mammoth rally of more than 30,000 in downtown Kuala Lumpur in late 2007.
The police brutality towards the protestors and the subsequent ISA detention of Uthaya and four other Hindraf leaders galvanized the Malaysian electorate into voting for change at the 2008 general election.
Malaysia Chronicle
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