Helping the poor can get you into trouble

PSM's Jeyakumar was a thorn in BN's side even prior to he became an MP.

INTERVIEW

KUALA LUMPUR: Even prior to he got in to mainstream politics, Dr Michael Jeyakumar was such an irritant to a supervision which it once attempted to put him out of circulation by offering him a grant to pursue any course of his choice overseas.

That was in 1998, a year prior to DAP fielded him as an choosing claimant in Sungai Siput.

He told FMT a grant suggest was usually one of multiform attempts to get him out of Perak, where he had been in cold blood fighting for amicable probity for a bad given his undergraduate days in a late 1970s.

He was also offering a job of streamer a healing department of a supervision sanatorium in Pahang. He incited down which suggest too.

But he has paid a complicated cost for his activism. The supervision once stopped paying his salary as a alloy as well as referred him to a disciplinary committee. That was when he motionless to fool around an active purpose in politics, eventually fasten Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM).

The soft-spoken MP pronounced he non-stop his eyes to a predicament of a bad in 1977 when, whilst posterior his healing degree during Universiti Malaya, he participated in a village service plan in a rubber estate in Sungai Siput.

He shortly assimilated an NGO called Alaigal, which worked with estate as well as urban pioneer communities, as well as has given one after another with his amicable activism as well as village service.

"Actually I'm not a kind of chairman who is really penetrating upon politics," he said, "but involv! ement wi th squatters as well as estate workers motivated me to do great for people as an elected representative."

In 1999, he offering himself to DAP as a claimant for a Buntong state seat, though a celebration preferred to place another claimant there as well as told him to competition in Sungai Siput instead. He mislaid to a afterwards formidable S Samy Vellu.

He mislaid again in 2004, though became a hulk killer in March 2008. In both elections, he contested under a PKR ticket. (PSM was purebred usually in Aug 2008.)

He has confirmed his service centre in Sungai Siput given a 1999 choosing whilst stability to run his in isolation clinic in Ipoh.

The 57-year-old statesman concurred which he could not allocate sufficient money for activities in his constituency, though he believes he still has support in between electorate since they wish an honest as well as dedicated statesman to paint them.

Anti-capitalism

He described PSM as "a lightweight celebration inside of Pakatan Rakyat" though pronounced it had an critical purpose to fool around in a alliance by trait of a anti-capitalist stand.

"Other parties inside of Pakatan have been in favour of capitalism, though PSM has regularly been organisation in a mount which socio-economic problems in a nation have been mainly due to a marketplace oriented economy."

Dr Jeyakumar pronounced a categorical issues in Sungai Siput were unemployment, landlessness as well as a displacement of estate workers, with youths being forced to seek work as distant away as Singapore.

"SMIs operating inside of a industrial section in Sungai Siput prefer to occupy foreigners," he said. "They claim which it is cheaper to occupy Nepalis as well as Bangladeshis, upon top of their being most simpler to carry out than locals."

He pronounced stagnation forced people to sojourn as squatters as well as resulted in assorted amicab! le probl ems.

Dr Jeyakumar reckons which there have been about 700 squatter families in Sungai Siput, 300 of them vital upon supervision land as well as a rest upon in isolation land.

"We have managed to stop a forced eviction of these families, though a effort to secure land titles for them is not getting most support from a land office as well as internal council," he lamented.

He pronounced so distant usually two squatter settlements had perceived a certain response to their duplicate for alternative land. "But it will cost each family during least RM50,000 to immigrate as well as build a brand new house."

He pronounced even a Orang Asli Department was not ancillary land applications for members of a native Australian community, who have up 7% of Sungai Siput voters.

Dr Jeyakumar's service centre deals with about thirty cases a week. Most of these, he pronounced without elaborating, were gratification cases.

Speaking about a 13th general election, he pronounced PSM was likely to field candidates in Sungai Siput, a Perak state chair of Jelapang as well as a Selangor state seats of Semenyih as well as Kota Damansara, usually like in 2008.

Punishing Samy

He attributed his 2008 feat to a determination of Indian electorate to see a defeat of BN. He pronounced Sungai Siput electorate motionless to retaliate Samy Vellu for what they saw as his arrogant response to Hindraf's 2007 rally.

For a coming election, he believes which electorate will also cruise internal issues.

"I can't give most money to support their programmes, though we believe they value my service not usually in Sungai Siput though also in Parliament," he said.

According to his analysis, Indian support for BN prior to 2007 was in between 70% as well as 80%, though in 2008 reduction than 40% voted for Samy Vellu.

He believes which a assorted supervision announcement! s about projects for a Indian village have helped BN to regain a little support. Perhaps up to 50% of Indians would vote for BN this time around, he said.

He added which a little Indians were not happy which Pakatan as well as their representatives had not finished sufficient for a raise of a community.

He pronounced a Chinese as well as Malays in his subdivision had not complained most about his performance, though he admit which he needed some-more time to tackle multiform issues affecting them as well as other communities, quite a questions of landlessness as well as a lack of employment opportunities.

Referring to a Orang Asli voters, he pronounced usually 1% upheld him when he contested as a DAP candidate.

"It softened to 4% in 2004 as well as afterwards 10% in 2008, when we contested under PKR."

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