One month after assembly the PM, Ladang Bukit Jalil residents fright which once the election is over, as great as if BN come to power, afterwards they will use all their might to explode the houses.
COMMENT
By S Arutchelvan It is exactly the single month since the Ladang Bukit Jalil cabinet met Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. Many people who saw the news of the cabinet eventually having the date with the PM would have concluded which the emanate of Ladang Bukit Jalil estate workers is over as great as done with. There was additionally the feeling which if the PM met them, definitely it is not to defect them.
Now exactly the single month later, the emanate of Ladang Bukit Jalil is still not resolved. The PM asked for the little time to investigate the issue. When the office of the powerful PM himself asks for more time to investigate the issue, it seems the complaint in palm is the complex one.
The assembly with the PM did not usually come so easily. The Bukit Jalil workers camped outward the PM's office until they got an appointment. After spending thirty hours, they eventually got news which the PM will give an appointment to encounter them. It was the climax of their prolonged struggle.
Not taking divided credit from Najib, the PM did actually encounter them (Janji Ditepati) though there was primarily the conjecture which he will usually guarantee though not encounter them. A assembly was hold during the estate upon the night before of the PM's meeting. The feedback from the people during the assembly was which they were all really hopeful which the emanate will be eventually resolved.
P! olitical ly, the Bukit Jalil emanate is torn in the strength emanate for the MIC as great as it is the single of the vital inhabitant emanate confronting them as the predicament of the Bukit Jalil ex-plantation workers is the inhabitant concern. The emanate get lots of coverage in the Tamil dailies as great as magnetism from many Malaysian Indians. For the PM, it is critical for him to execute which he is permitted as great as is listening to the voices of the people.
Now the single month after the PM's meeting, the little fright has crept in. There is right away the feeling which the PM's assembly was usually the play as great as once the election is over as great as if the BN come to power, afterwards they will use all their might to explode the houses.
There is many instances in story when urban bad houses being demolished usually after elections. Therefore any resolution to the Bukit Jalil estate workers has to be done now.
The stumbling block
Legally DBKL has won the case. Only domestic vigour seems to have stop them from carrying out an eviction. But again DBKL got the eviction sequence by stating which the ex-plantation workers were usually squatters as great as they used the draconian Emergency clearance of squatter bidding upon these workers.
But today, this law has been lifted after Najib announced the lifting of the 4 emergencies. It would look really bad for DBKL to explode the homes using the Emergency statute today.
Having pronounced that, what is afterwards gripping the Prime Minister for giving the former workers 4 acres of land out of the twenty-six acres of land which is right away available. There seems to be several factors which appear to be the stumbling block.
we raise three pertinent questions.
1. Not wanting to set the precedent
One of the categorical reasons since for not ancillary the Bukit Jalil worker's direct is w! hich the y don't wish to set the precedent. The DBKL as great as MIC think which it would be the bad precedent. DBKL has the story of not giving camp workers landed skill as great as they explain which many other kampung as great as the little estates will ask for landed skill if they were to give in.
Here once again capitalist seductiveness becomes the determining factor. Though when the supervision acquired Ladang Bukit Jalil (LBJ) in 1980, there were 1,800 acres. The supervision upon acquiring the land, sole the land piece by piece to in isolation developers such as Berjaya group, Talam as great as Ho Hup. The LBJ land was used to rise oppulance houses, tolled highways as great as golf courses between others. Never did it cranky their mind which they must finalise initial the housing needs of the village where they have been developing the land.
Now after all the prime land being sole for profits, there remain right away twenty-six acres of land which they devise to have it into the funeral ground. What about those living?
What the Ladang Bukit Jalil ex-workers have been asking is usually 4 acres of the last superfluous twenty-six acres. Why is there the complaint in giving in to these people? Why cannot the people who have been the longest upon the land be allocated land in the same place?
As we have been great aware, this republic was built upon the toil as great as sacrifice of, amongst others, hundreds of thousands of estate workers. Up to 1980s, the income from rubber as great as oil palm played the vital purpose in financing the growth of our country. Our republic prospered, as great as camp companies reaped fabulous profits, though camp workers lived in contemptible misery as great as deprivation generated by below misery line wages as great as the many behind of salary structures. Four acres of land as the amicable salary to compensate for their contribution towards the republic is surely not too most to ask for.
Why is afterwards wh! ich such the fair as great as eminent thought of giving land to the bad as great as the many honourable being seen as bad precedent? Bad fashion in whose eyes? It seems which for the chosen classes, these have been bad precedents when prime land is since to bad people. And sadly BN as great as MIC share this vision.
It is time to set great precedent. Will the statute celebration have the domestic will to do it?
2. The Internal MIC energy play
It is no secret which MIC vice boss M Saravanan, who is additionally the deputy FT minister, is strongly opposite the ex-workers removing the land. Saravanan was instrumental in removing the huge organisation of people to accept the relocation to the flats. Here once again, politicians internal seductiveness in helping supporters as great as office building bases overrule the subject of justice. The Federal Territory Minister Raja Nong Chik himself concurred in an official matter which of the 71 who have moved to the flats, usually 10 have been former camp workers whilst the others have been 'squatters'. Whereas he stated which the superfluous 39 who have been still vital upon the estate have been all former camp workers.
These problems have been not new. In many cases, politician interfere in helping their chosen people to get benefits, stratagem official census, assistance cronies etc. In this case, Saravanan await base is in those who have moved to the flats. On the other hand, MIC Youth leader T Mohan has supported the 4 acres of land asked by the Bukit Jalil workers.
Now the subject being asked for those opposing the 4 acres direct is if we give land to the 41 families, what about those who have already left to the flats? This emanate is used to divide as great as rule the people. Even now, those who have left the estates have been betrothed an additional bulk of compensation though with condition which usually if the superfluous 41 additionally accepted the flats offer.
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