June 6, 2012
Solidarity for Ambiga @Pakatan Ulu Tiram Ceramah
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
Despite a fact that a distance of a assemblage during their ceramah has become an object of scorn by their BN adversaries, Pakatan Rakyat have been enthused by a reception they received upon Sunday from a throng in Ulu Tiram in Johor.
The ceramah was organised by Johor PKR as well as featured speakers from bloc partners DAP as well as PAS.
An crawl throng of about 2,000 people, overwhelmingly Indian
Malaysians, incited up to listen to Pakatan heavies, Salahuddin Ayub of PAS as well as M Kulasegaran of DAP. They sat in a tented area located near a quarrel of shophouses in a residential suburb of Ulu Tiram, a municipality in a parliamentary constituency of Tebrau, northeast of Johor Bahru.
The local element of Pakatan was represented by Johor DAP arch Dr Boo Cheng Hau as well as Dr Mahfodz Mohamed, a PAS state chief.
PKR Vice-President N Surendran was a top ranking central of his celebration to speak during a ceramah, that dwelt in no small measure upon a theme of stateless Indians in a country.
The biggest cheers from a throng were indifferent for Mahfodz (left) when he voiced astonishment that a little r! esidents innate in Malaysia cannot appear to get citizenship papers since workers innate in foreign soil have obtained such papers as well as registered as voters.
The throng additionally voiced their oneness for a difficulty of BERSIH co-chair Ambiga Sreenevasan, a target of attacks by Perkasa as well as alternative right-wing groups distressing of her role in a organisation of a polls advocacy pressure group's mass protest of Apr 28.
Every mention of her name by a evening's speakers drew a round of sympathetic acclaim from a crowd, a little of whom were seen carrying banners emblazoned with her picture.
BN's wooing of a Indians
Indians have been a mainstay of support for a BN until a 2008 general choosing when they deserted a statute bloc in droves over a host of grievances ranging from a autochthonous poverty of uprooted plantation workers forced by estate fragmentation to find their vital in towns to a dispersion of Hindu temples.
Prime Minister Najib Razak has attempted to win back mislaid Indian support with direct money assist to a bad as well as alternative inducements similar to an one some-more ministry for a MIC in a sovereign cabinet.
These measures have been trumpeted by a MIC as having had a outcome of interesting Indians back to a BN overlay though a audience of Indians during opposition events such as that in Ulu Tiram tends to gainsay those projections.
Surendran said: "The contribution upon a belligerent have been some-more ambiguous than a claims done by perspective surveys as well as a BN in all that Indians have returned to backing a sovereign coalition."
He added that a attacks of PERKASA as well as alternative Malay right-wing groups upon Ambiga have drawn a magnetism of India! ns to he r, that could interpret into a choice to stay with a Opposition rsther than than reconcile with a BN.
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