Professor Ramasamy’s last term in Prai and Batu Kawan for failing to raise in Parliament or champion up to 13A Indian students denied scholarships

Professor Ramasamy’s last term in Prai and Batu Kawan for failing to raise in Parliament or champion up to 13A Indian students denied scholarships and University places.

This was the message Human Rights Party (HRP) Secretary General P.Uthayakumar gave some 300 HRP and Hindraf supporters at the launch of the Tawan Prai and Batu Kawan HRP bilek gerakan for the 2012/ 2013 general elections.

P.Uthayakumar asked why even a prominent scholar like Professor Ramasamy, who appears to be the best person to talk about educational issues, failed to raise or move an emergency motion in Parliament on the issue of bright and top scoring Indian students from especially poor families being denied JPA, Petronas, Mara, TNB, Shell, Khazanah, Sime Darby, 13 Yayasan Negeri scholarships, PTPTN loans etc and entrance into local and overseas Universities, Scholarships and Matriculation places. There was pin-drop silence among the crowd. They were listening very attentively. The silence was very intense! This was the same silence that we saw shortly before the 12th General Election, which subsequently translated into the disastrous tsunami!
P.Uthayakumar expressed regret that despite there also being 11 Indian mandore MPs’ from PKR, DAP and PAS in Parliament, not a single MP raised this issue or put in an emergency motion in Parliament against these UMNO atrocities. Let alone for the scores of the other critical Indian issues.

P.Uthayakumar thereafter launched the HRP’s Project 15/38 as the only way for forward and said that Prai and Batu Kawan will be the first seats to be won by HRP. These two seats are very special to P.Uthayakumar as Prai is P.Uthayakumar’s birth place.

In his speech P.Uthayakumar said that HRP has had had five think tank meetings to train our very own HRP MPs’ and ADUNs’. So that our HRP MPs’ and ADUNS can also fight for these 7As’ to 13As students right up to Parliament, Inter Parliamentary Union, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the United Nations, European Union and other international forums. With their status as elected representatives they would become politically empowered. These future HRP MPs and ADUNs will do nationwide campaigns without fear or favour of losing Malay votes or the tuans, tuan hajis or towkays in PKR, PAS and DAP.

The MIC, PKR, DAP and PAS Indian MPs and ADUN mandores are powerless because they fear losing Malay votes and will not speak up for the Indians. Their tuan, tuan haji and towkays in PKR, PAS and DAP will not allow them to raise Indian issues because they fear losing Malay votes.

Because in these proposed 15 and 38 seats they would all have won on Indian majority seats our HRP MPs and ADUNs will become politically empowered.

The Prai HRP bilik gerakan opening ceremony commenced with the reciting of Thevaram. This was followed by the Hindraf and HRP flag raising ceremony, raised in a solemn and timed motion that the flag reached the top as the Hindraf/HRP theme song, “Tholvi Nilaiyena Ninaithaal” ended. Every time this song is played or sung at the Hindraf/HRP functions, it never fails to touch the audience to their deepest core. What a song this is, so powerful, moving, and connecting everyone present. The end of the song, much to everyone’s delight, was greeted by a spectacular display of fireworks to the roaring thunder of cheers and claps from the swelling crowd.

The atmosphere was further enhanced by an interesting video show entitled, “The Teh Tarik Session” scripted and acted by the Penang HRP team on police ASP plant K.Vasanthakumar planted into Hindraf to create confusion, division and to break up Hindraf under Ops Padam Hindraf and now claims to be a Hindraf leader. The Hindraf accounts being made public, P.Uthayakumar’s Project 15/38 and Hindraf Chairman P.WaythaMoorthy’s International campaigns.

HRP and Hindraf coordinator Mr. Sambulingam roared to the crowd first spilling the 1001 problems inflicted upon the Indian society in this country by UMNO from womb to tomb. The Indian mandore’s in the Opposition parties were chided for failing to raise these pertinent problems in Parliament for which they were voted in by the Malaysian Indians on Hindraf’s political directions. Instead of championing this 13A issue this Professor makes time to question irrelevantly the Hindraf accounts that was cleared in Parliament by the Home Minister himself. To this, the crowd responded, “kick them out in the next election!” Mr. Sambulingam continued, “come what may, Hindraf and HRP’s struggle will continue until justice is served to the Indians in this country!”.

Next, was a very touching and poignant event. A group of people representing various problems laden in this society presented Hindraf’s 18 point demands to Uthayakumar and urged him to lead, guide and free the society from the gross injustices they are trapped in.

HRP and Hindraf National adviser Mr. N. Ganeson explained that this was the third state office opened after Puteri Wangsa in Johor and Sri Andalas in Selangor apart from the HRP HQ in Jalan Bangsar, and four more offices opened nationwide to facilitate HRP’s and the poor and powerless Indian struggle. He also explained HRP’s progress thus far since its official launching in July last year. Further stressed upon the importance of having the real political power via Project 15/38 to find solution to the society’s many plights!

Finally, Mr. P. Uthayakumar officially launched the 15/38 Project, accompanied by another spectacular display of fireworks. This was followed by three loud shouts of “Naam Namakke Vaakalipom” or “We Vote for Ourselves” by Mr. Sambulingam. The curtains of the ceremony finally fell with once again, singing of the Hindraf/ HRP theme song by all.

Later a press conference was held in the office before dinner was served to all.

S.Jayathas