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| Hindraf dares Kit Siang to an open debate Posted: 02 Apr 2013 03:56 PM PDT
N Ganesan, via e-mail After studying the contents of the DAP Gelang Patah Plan for the Indians, it is very obvious that most of the plan is plagiarised from Hindraf's five-year Blueprint. After having been through the effort to draw up the blueprint ourselves, we cannot understand how a serious document in this category can be developed otherwise within 24 hours. Since a large part of the Gelang Patah document really comes from the Hindraf Blueprint, we cannot understand why in the first place DAP does not want to endorse the Hindraf Blueprint itself or negotiate on it till it becomes acceptable and then to endorse it. In our opinion if DAP is sincere there was abundant opportunity to have worked with us on this matter since November of last year. But they let all of that slip and just before the General Elections and in a matter of hours they turn up with this plan. In our opinion all of this reeks of political opportunism and another impending grand deception for the Indian poor. We cannot stand by and watch another attempt to cheat the poor people and to run off with their votes and then return peanuts to them. The sincerity of DAP in coming up with this document in this manner right on the eve of the GE and announced in a constituency that Lim Kit Siang is rumoured to contest, is really questionable. There are over 12,000 Indian voters (12%) in Gelang Patah . DAP Chairman Karpal Singh had just on the the 30th of March called on Waytha Moorthy to end his Hunger Viratham and resume discussion with Anwar Ibrahim. He also urged Anwar Ibrahim to find an amicable solution to end the Hindraf blueprint stalemate. The next day Lim Kit Siang announces the Gelang Patah Plan. We find all this baffling. We are left wondering if there is any seriousness at all in this entire episode. So, instead of us just calling the effort insincere, we will let the people decide, if the effort is sincere or otherwise. We call upon Lim Kit Siang personally for such a a debate in front of an open audience to clear the air on this. We will debate the proposition that the "DAP Gelang Patah Plan for the Indians is not a sincere plan to address the problems of the Indian poor in comprehensive and permanent ways." We hope Lim Kit Siang will accept this challenge and show the country that Hindraf is wrong , that DAP is indeed sincere in trying to improve the lot of the Indian Poor. If however, Lim Kit Siang does not accept this challenge , then we have to conclude that DAP is doing what they are doing only because it is good politics – nothing more, nothing less. Please let us know through an open acceptance or you can contact me, N Ganesan at 012 -480-3284 and let us know of your acceptance and we will arrange the necessary details for the event. |
| What do DAP and race car drivers have in common? Posted: 02 Apr 2013 03:38 PM PDT
Wong Saikim What do political leaders and racing car drivers have in common? They are both in a race of sorts. The politicians want to win at the polls, and the racing drivers want to win at the Grand Prix. But the DAP and ace driver Lewis Hamilton had one more thing in common-- they each suffered crushing embarrassing moments this week. Hamilton's embarrassment happened at the race track in Sepang last week. The Formula One racer made a blunder when he pulled in at the McLaren pit stop instead of the Mercedes box. For one brief moment, he had forgotten that McLaren was his previous sponsor and Mercedes was his current. Describing this gaffe, a foreign correspondent said that Hamilton was usually drawn to controversy like a moth to a lampshade. His old McLaren mechanics were briefly stunned but his fans couldn't hide a big smile at the blooper. To them, it was no big deal. They were just amused.
DAP's embarrassment happened a few days ago. DAP admitted to a faux pas of gigantic proportions. The Penang DAP government admitted that there has been a mistake in the entire costs for the mega project involving the undersea tunnel and the three highways. The earlier costs were under reported by RM2.22 billion. Not by RM2.22, not by RM2.22 hundred, not by RM2.22 thousand, not by RM2.22 million, but by a staggering RM2.22 billion! The error was dismissed as a 'typo'. But unlike the case of Lewis Hamilton, the rakyat are not so forgiving. They are not amused. How can anyone, leave alone a government, make such a boo-boo? What rocket fuel was used to propel the costs sky-high? Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng cannot dismiss this mother of all blunders as a mere 'typo'. A 'typo' is a typographical error which only happened in the days when manual typewriters were in use. Typewriters have long given way to computers which always flag mistakes as they occur, and prompt corrections. The rakyat demands a detailed explanation. After all, it is they who are finally going to foot the bill, one way or another. Whatever happened to Competency, Accountability and Transparency? Why is DAP silent? Has the CAT got its tongue? This was not DAP's first blooper. The party could not even get it right in its elections to its party central executive committee last December. A 'technical error' in calculation resulted in an inaccurate result. Candidate number 65, Zairil Abdullah who had the same number of votes received by candidate number 35 Manogaran Marimuthu (305 votes) actually received 803 votes, the party only claimed two weeks after the election. These are serious mistakes. If a student makes mistakes like these in school, he will be punished by his examiners; if an adult makes mistakes like these at work, he will be punished by his employer; and when politicians make mistakes like these they should be punished by the voters.
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