I bought the Hindraf DVD outlining its blueprint for the betterment
of Indians on Thaipusam day and watched it along with my mother. My mom
always watches the programme Vizhuthugal on Astro Vaanavil and TV2 Tamil
news where BN blows it’s own trumpet that it is a caring government
doling out goodies and the proposed national celebration of Ponggal. I
stopped listening to and reading mainstream news a long time ago whilst
my mother depends on it for information of the goings on.
Basically, in that DVD, Hindraf outlined its six-point blueprint
during the group’s fifth year anniversary celebration last November.
With all that said and heard, one day my mom came up to me and said that
BN seems to care for Indians with all the feel good festivities
organising and goodies galore and told me that she would vote for BN
since BN seems to have repented. She is also sizably concerned about
riotous skirmishes that might take place if PR takes seat in Putrajaya.
Now, this is the problem of Indians here, the Indian dilemma,
prevalent especially among the aged and those in rural areas, my mother
included. We tend to settle for temporary provisions and succumb to
gratification when our festivals are given hype. We have a short memory
and are driven by gratitude which is knowingly preyed on by the ruling
coalition. And, fear mongering is another factor that would make
unthinking Indians become BN’s vote repository again.
The dilemma of Indians here is that they are happy if they are given a
fish a day rather than learning the skill of fishing and upgrade the
skill in order to develop themselves and BN is capitalising on this
stumble of ours. This trait alone befits the claim that Indians are
pathetic beggars. Why get angry when others call us beggars when we act
like beggars?
Indians here don’t have ahead of time and critical thinking. Our kids
don’t get seats in public universities scholarships despite being more
than qualified, their spirits, crushed, ambition, quelled, potential and
capability, repressed and yet for a meager RM500, a packet of rice, few
cans of sardine and other groceries and a nationwide Ponggal
celebration and we are more than willing to lick the boots of BN goons
and cast our votes to the very political entity that denied our
existence and our contribution to the building Malaysia for the past 55
long years.
These goodies galore and the celebrations are nothing but kiss ass
gestures to gain the canvass of the Indian community back for BN. We
must ask ourselves, why only now BN has come up with the term Nambikei
and is giving us a literal yet non sustainable windfall? What were they
smoking in the period of 55 years of rule? Why only after failure of
getting 2/3rd majority is BN paying attention to Indians and why is the
handouts parcel executed so close to the general election?
Is it because they had a sudden enlightenment? Is it because they
have turned over a new leaf and sincerely want to serve the Indian
community? No! BN is doing this for its own political survival and this
Nambikei thingy and the splurge are their 11th hour attempts. It is do
or die. Najib wants to preserve his position as PM; that is his only
motive.
If Najib is truly sincere to uplift the Indian community sincerely he
should have implemented long term nitty gritty uplifting policies and
supplementary monetary aid the minute he got sworn in as our PM, in
genuine
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