MIC Kapar using cash to lure BN support?

Thousands of Indian residents of Kapar, Selangor have reportedly been reception income handouts from MIC over multiform weekends final month in an alleged try to seek votes support for a BN in a entrance ubiquitous election.

However, MIC Kapar division which was behind a exercise, has strongly denied which it was a vote-buying exercise, insisting a income was for MIC branch members only.

Kapar chief T Ganesan, when asked about reports of residents in Taman Sentosa, Kapar, reception envelopes containing RM20, toldMalaysiakinithat residents usually "goods" were distributed to them, not cash.

The RM20 handouts were "allowance" for local MIC members, not meant for a public, he said.

Explaining which as a practice had been reason in a open space, it was destined which some members of a open who additionally happened to be ! there ma y have gotten reason of "a few a envelopes".

"We can't usually contend 'don't take it'," he said, adding which such events were being carried out throughout Malaysia.

"I assure we which it is notpancing undi(fishing for votes)," he pronounced when contacted byMalaysiakiniyesterday.

Thousands perceived a cash

The practice reportedly began around a May 13 weekend, according to a proprietor from Taman Sentosa in Kapar town, who requested anonymity.

The technician in his early twenties claimed which MIC representatives from a subdivision including Ganesan were holding events around locale to discharge income to a infancy Indian population there.

He sa! id which recipients were initially asked to vote for BN if they wanted a cash, though they shortly dropped such direct references.

His family members as well as his neighbours had all perceived a RM20, adding which none have been MIC members.

On a May 13 weekend, rounded off 500 residents per day showed up to collect a cash, pronounced a technician.

The practice was pronounced to have continued over a subsequent multiform weekends during opposite locations around a town.

He additionally complained which before to a exercise, residents perceived unknown phone calls as well as melancholy text messages advising them to vote for a BN.

However,Malaysiakiniwas unable to secure a copy of a pronounced SMS.

Residents were additionally told which they would receive RM200 for registering as citizens during a circuitously centre, nonetheless this never materialised, he added.

His accounts were advanced by a neighbour, a lorry motorist in his mid-twenties, who toldMalaysiakinihis wife's family had additionally perceived a RM20.

Paid 'vote checking' exercise

Malaysiakinicitizen journalist Annantharajan Palaniandy's visit to one such eventuality during Taman Sentosa upon Sunday, May twenty-seven additionally paints a opposite story from Ganesan's.

Annantharajan reliable which income was being given out in envelopes during a event, though did not see any indication during a venue of a eventuality being limited to usually MIC members.

Instead, a organisers upon site claimed which it was an practice to 'check a eligibility' of residents' voter status.

Held during an open margin nearby Jalan Kapar, a organisers erected tents as well as set up a! counter to discharge a handouts.

The eventuality was separate into morning as well as evening sessions, with a latter pulling over a thousand people.

Envelopes with RM20 notes were handed out to people "pre-registered" for a eventuality with a photocopy of their MyKad, as their names were read off a list.

However, when a attendees exceeded a 400 purebred recipients limit, a others were incited away.

When asked, Ganesan pronounced a supports came from a party as well as a Prime Minister's Department.

Questioned upon a timing of a event, he denied it was meant to drum up support for MIC or a BN ahead of a entrance ubiquitous election.

"These have been really normal events. We're sure all parties have been we do a same," he said, explaining which sometimes NGOs would proceed them to organise such events.

The greatest parliamentary chair in Selangor, Kapar is a Malay-majority chair though has a sizeable Indian population, comprising about 15 percent of a citizens in a area.

MP: Kapar indians 'not stupid'

Kapar MP S Manikavasagam criticised a income handouts as a case of "double standards" as well as an indication which a government was not critical about assisting a Indian community.

"It is considered fine when BN hands out cash, though when Pakatan Rakyat distributes aid, it is deemed corruption," he pronounced when contacted byMalaysiakinion Thursday.

'If they have been really critical (about assisting a people) afterwards they should work upon infrastructure, as well as raise people's customary of living," pronounced a PKR parliamentarian (left).

He claimed which he was aware of ! such all eged vote-buying efforts in his constituency, observant which people had complained of MIC calling upon Tamil schools as well as houses offering money.

However, he does not foresee such efforts undermining Pakatan's opening in a entrance polls, observant which "Kapar Indians have been smart".

Subang MP R Sivarasa additionally panned a income handout practice, adding, however, which he had not listened of it occurring in his constituency.

"It is something which should be taboo by law," he said, explaining which in Malaysia such exercises were usually barred during election campaign periods, leaving open a loophole for a praticise.

He acknowledged which such tactics could still reason lean among some of a poorer communities, though pronounced which as a whole, some-more people were "seeing a bigger picture".

He combined which he would privately feel angry if offered RM20 to vote for a BN.

"My greeting would be, 'What do we ! consider my value is (to be paid for over for RM20)?'," he pronounced when contacted byMalaysiakini.

Kuala Selangor MP Dzulkefly Ahmad described a tota! l event as "preposterous", adding which he, too, has come to sense of 30 Jun 2012 such handouts in his constituency.

"That's how they courtesy people, they consider which with usually RM20 they can buy people," he pronounced in a phone interview withMalaysiakiniyesterday, adding which a pierce degrades "the Indian community".

Although his 4 years of service have not been perfect, a PAS parliamentarian believes his altogether opening would be a some-more critical factor, rsther than than income handouts in his constituency.

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