December 10, 2012
Contest for Indian Votes enters the wilful phase
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT Five years after the booming Hindraf criticism of Nov 2007, the contest for the Indian vote during the 13th General Election is headed for the wilful proviso upon the vigilance emanate the numbers of stateless residents as good as what's to be done about their plight.
On Wednesday, the speculative series of the stateless as good as their sympathisers will accumulate during the National Registration Department (NRD) to denote their concerns as good as roar for quick remedy.
Today, the prominent activist for the stateless, PKR Vice-President as good as lawyer N Surendran (left), will record an duplicate in the Kuala Lumpur High Court asking for the judicial review of the NRD's warding off to emanate the blue MyKad to Sarojini as good as Mala, dual stateless residents of Kapar, in Selangor.
Sarojini, 32, as good as Mala, 34, neither of whom have been to school, have long been denizens of which night before zone to which the stateless have been consigned in Malaysia.
Surendran will be asking the justice to accede to an sequence of mandamus against the NRD as good as the supervision to compel them to emanate the dual with the blue MyKad as good as also an sequence of certiorari to stifle the preference not to accede to them the blue MyKad, in addition to looking the declaration which their elemental rights were breached as good as which this merited damages.
Neither Sarojini nor Mala has been to propagandize since they don't have the birth certificate as good as an temperament card, the indispensable accoutrements of citizenship. Sarojini as go! od as Ma la have been Indian Malaysians though their stateless incident is not disdainful to bankrupt members of the community.
Though there is no doubt which the overwhelming infancy of the stateless have been Indians, in new months it has come to light which not inconsiderable numbers of Dayak as good as Kadazan have been likewise afflicted.
Whether the statelessness of these people is due to bureaucratic slight or their own destitution, the emanate is the sign of the border of the superiority of apocalyptic misery among Malaysia's 28 million people.
The stateless exist in the night before zone. Without birth certificates or temperament cards, they cannot go to school, hospitals or be gainfully employed. They have been the wretched of the country, to borrow from Third World liberationist Frantz Fanon's luminous phrase, 'The Wretched of The Earth', which is the pretension of the book he wrote.
Urgent need of remedy
At present, 3 parties espouse the indicate which the incident of the stateless is in urgent need of pill 3 parties, which is, as good as the single man.
The 3 parties have been PKR, which claims which the complaint is substantial in magnitude as good as final surgical remedy; MIC, which says which PKR is grandstanding upon the border of the complaint that, it claims, is good upon the approach to rectification; as good as DAP, which has highlighted the complaint by national Vice-Chairperson M Kulasegaran (right), though has gone beyond verbal sacrament to take the step towards alleviation of the problem.
This step was the hiring final month by the Penang supervision of five officers who have been commissioned to seek out out the stateless wherever they have been not only in Penang as good as comp! ile the register of their names as good as addresses to commence the task of legitimising their presence in the country.
The abovementioned the single male who has shown the little solicitude for the stateless is Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who to the Indian Malaysian village in new times has sounded similar to the regular Dr Marcus Welby, famed from the American TV programme as the ubiquitous practitioner with attractive bedside manners.
Najib, benign dispenser in final dual years of palliatives for the problems of entrenched misery in sections of the Indian Malaysia community, struck the characteristic note during the MIC convention yesterday when he suggested which the numbers of the stateless were in the four-digit region, far from the "exaggerated" six-digit levels dramatised by PKR.
This drew an immediate riposte from Surendran who accused the PM of grossly underestimating the numbers, an effect, the PKR Vice President held, of the ubiquitous trivialisation with which problems to do with the Indian Malaysian village have been regarded by the Barisan Nasional
Last week Surendran was called up by the OCPD in Putrajaya for doubt about the programmed criticism to be staged by stateless people as good as their supporters upon December 12.
After being questioned, Surendran told the press which the police were being officious about the programmed criticism whereas the organisers of the demonstrators had made plain their intention to dramatise the predicament of the stateless.
"It's the human rights issue," argued the counsel who has made the name for himself in human rights advocacy in the final decade.By operation of law, these people have been ostensible to have been adults of this country. That they have been not is the great contrition as good as! the out rageous injustice."
Dramatisation of the emanate has resulted in Pakatan Rakyat supremo Anwar Ibrahim announcing final Thursday during the public rally in Padang Serai, Kedah, which once elected, the Pakatan Rakyat supervision will make the stateless adults in the month, probably by the stroke of the sovereign pen.
The Pakatan personality has opted for the cure-all to the Barisan Nasional chairperson's placebo.
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