"......of a 900,000 Indian voters, less than half have been with a MIC"- G Palanivel ('Has awkward MIC thrown in a towel?'-The Malay Mail)
COMMENTNow, when former MIC strongman S Samy Vellu has admitted which during his tenure as celebration president, in those "closed doors, let's keep it in a (BN) family accord building meetings", a MIC had no voice whatsoever, it is pointless kicking a running dog, so to speak.
With a ubiquitous elections perpetually turn a corner, BN (race-based) member parties have been scrambling to find aptitude in a face of Umno domination as good as an pick front which has been really successful in propagating a multicultural/religious message.
While a MCA has a jot down of accomplishment to tumble behind upon (even yet a single might disagree with a achievements as good as agendas of pronounced record), a same cannot be pronounced of a MIC. The domestic celebration is covenant to a fact which a Indian village (or during slightest a large disenfranchised section) is estranged from mainstream governing body given a MIC has been failing in duty (I would argue criminally so) in a duties.
I could not be worried to recite a litany of a MIC's erosive machinations upon a Indian community. As a long-time pre-Pakatan Rakyat 'opposition supporter', you consider domestic parties similar to a DAP as good as PSM have finished distant some-more for ! a Indian village than a MIC ever (and recognising a state of a Indian community, though sadly, t! his did not amount to most in a long run).
In this post-2008 tsunami era, Hindraf as good as elements inside of Pakatan have shown which there is an pick to an determined race-based party, when it comes to a village expectations of a Indian community.
Well, let me be clear. So long as Hindraf (through a Human Rights Party) assumes an anti-establishment stance, galvanising certain elements inside of Pakatan, there could be an pick to an determined race-based party, when it comes to a village expectations of a Indian community.
MIC as good as Perkasa
To assimilate Hindraf's influence in a Indian village as good as a fear it raises in this appeaser organisation, all you have to do is listen to a speeches by MIC boss G Palanivel. When he rambles upon with something similar to this, "We might be outspoken during times, though it is really given you adore this nation as good as want it to be a most appropriate it can be," he certain as hell is not talking about a MIC.
These "vocal" Indians have been Hindraf as good as members of a antithesis alliance. When has a MIC ever been outspoken about a 'interests' of a Indian village beyond creation regular squeaks to uncover which they exist?
Moreover, when he goes upon about 'affirmative action programmes' which has benefitted a Malay village which could be used for a Indian community, he is ripping out total pages from a Hindraf playbook.
Furthermore, this total emanate of 'stateless Indians' which should additionally encompa! ss 'dis! placed Indians' has come about usually given Hindraf has been screaming about this for years as good as a antithesis coalition has reacted in a positive manner. Think about it. Hindraf has been a catalyst for any transformation when it comes to addressing 'Indian issues' for a domestic alliances in this country.
This is where Pakatan as good as Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim have been really politically keen in dealing with Hindraf. The brand new proclamation by Hindraf chief P Waythamoorthy (far left) which Anwar hasagreed in principleand will sign Hindraf's five-year plans is substantially a fatal blow to a MIC.
However a decline of a MIC (and hopefully not in a "rumours of my passing have been severely exaggerated" kind of way) has eventually drawn a line in a silt of a simmering class tensions which have existed in a Indian village for some time. This should not be confused with a 'caste' tensions which have been a permanent tie in MIC politics.
The strategy employed by a MCA as good as MIC in reclaiming their lost share of electorate as good as holding up their end of a secular bargain has been markedly different. Whereas a MCA has possibly embroiled itself in a shade play uncover of defiance towards Umno, (where Umno stays silent upon MCA attacks upon a supremacist ideology or blusters regulating a outsourced thugs) or zeroed in upon a "Islamic" bulletin of PAS, a MIC seems to have reverted to extreme sycophancy as a means of domestic survival.
A great example of this is MP P Kamalanathan (Hulu Selangor) (right in photo) who during a march of a hotly contested Hulu Selangor chair justified a existence of right-wing pressure group Perkasa as a healthy extension of village governing body as good as which a group was merely seeking after a interests of a Malay community, most similar to a MIC was for a Indian community.
Helen Ang, a single of a some-more (if not a most) judicious observers of a Indian experience in this cou! ntry, di ssects Kamalanathan's position in'Why MIC Hulu Selangor candidate defends Perkasa?'and succinctly ends her square by alluding to a 'mandore' underpinnings of a MIC.
"Kamal's defence of this ultra-movement is untenable though not astonishing as after all, this is a candidate who pronounced which he would "take behind a sovereign chair as good as deliver it to Prime Minister Najib Razak as present for his first year in office? Like a housecat boring in an charity of a prisoner mouse," writes Helen in conclusion.
Common DNA
However, what you would argue is which a MIC as good as Perkasa share common DNA when it comes to their purpose in competition governing body in this country. Whereas Perkasa reflects a conservative hostility towards viewed slights outwards against o! ther comm! unities, a MIC turns it rage inwards towards a own community.
In other words, a MIC over a long Umno watch became a Indian communities' own small Perkasa nightmare in conditions of a bullying force whose sole bulletin was to keep everyone in line.
Just as Perkasa's purpose is to maintain a hegemony of Umno elites by a inclination of competition as good as religion, a MIC, suppressed inner dissent as good as any goal of evolutionary change by a perpetuation of standing governing body as good as a enlightenment of vulgar cronyism as good as sycophancy to maintain a order of a chosen few, who seemed to revel in their 'house negro' status inside of a BN.
Both entities savoured a bully proceed to politics. The brand new story of a MIC is repl! ete with distant too most examples where muscle was lucky over receptive dialogue. By a own admission, a MIC welcomes 'reformed' criminals as good as to contend zero of a well-documented rumours of a intersection of a criminal black market as good as a plums domestic positions inside of a MIC.
As a long-time former MIC politico tells me, all of this would mean zero if a Indian village benefitted from a crime inside of a MIC. He goes upon to contend "the MIC representing a smallest ethnic group in this nation should have had a satisfactory easier time ... what is a word again ... 'uplifting' a village with a 'goodies' thrown a way. But a masters knew a greed of their servants, as good as they knew damn good a income was not starting where it was ostensible to go".
This brings us behind to a 'class' being of a post-MIC era. These days a some-more you read upon 'Indian' issues, a some-more it becomes transparent which a class groups inside of a Indian village is reflected in a tensions in between an 'Indian' social as good as domestic organisations similar to Hindraf/Human Rights Party as good as antithesis forces which work under a multicultural cloak similar to Pakatan.
MIC's disaster is not a single of 'race' though a single of 'class'. This should warn nobody given a noxious fumes of 'caste' has always been embedded in 'class'. There is most to blame Umno for though a being is which a MIC had a one after another bulletin of promulgating a enlightenment of subservience which served not usually Umno ends though additionally some-more importantly theirs.
The MIC has no forgive for a horrible state which a sizeable territory of a Indian village find themselves in. Unlike a MCA, which never authorised a crime to get in a proceed of implementing discernible programmes which would safeguard a incomparable slice of a economic pie, a MIC authorised crime to become a raison d'etre of a existence.
The same can be pronounced of Umno, actually. What it chose to do is define Indian village ! expectat ions in such a proceed which it was neither necessary nor domestic expedient for a Umno machine to perform them.
Culture of subservience
COMMENTNow, when former MIC strongman S Samy Vellu has admitted which during his tenure as celebration president, in those "closed doors, let's keep it in a (BN) family accord building meetings", a MIC had no voice whatsoever, it is pointless kicking a running dog, so to speak.
With a ubiquitous elections perpetually turn a corner, BN (race-based) member parties have been scrambling to find aptitude in a face of Umno domination as good as an pick front which has been really successful in propagating a multicultural/religious message.
While a MCA has a jot down of accomplishment to tumble behind upon (even yet a single might disagree with a achievements as good as agendas of pronounced record), a same cannot be pronounced of a MIC. The domestic celebration is covenant to a fact which a Indian village (or during slightest a large disenfranchised section) is estranged from mainstream governing body given a MIC has been failing in duty (I would argue criminally so) in a duties.I could not be worried to recite a litany of a MIC's erosive machinations upon a Indian community. As a long-time pre-Pakatan Rakyat 'opposition supporter', you consider domestic parties similar to a DAP as good as PSM have finished distant some-more for ! a Indian village than a MIC ever (and recognising a state of a Indian community, though sadly, t! his did not amount to most in a long run).
In this post-2008 tsunami era, Hindraf as good as elements inside of Pakatan have shown which there is an pick to an determined race-based party, when it comes to a village expectations of a Indian community.
Well, let me be clear. So long as Hindraf (through a Human Rights Party) assumes an anti-establishment stance, galvanising certain elements inside of Pakatan, there could be an pick to an determined race-based party, when it comes to a village expectations of a Indian community.
MIC as good as Perkasa
To assimilate Hindraf's influence in a Indian village as good as a fear it raises in this appeaser organisation, all you have to do is listen to a speeches by MIC boss G Palanivel. When he rambles upon with something similar to this, "We might be outspoken during times, though it is really given you adore this nation as good as want it to be a most appropriate it can be," he certain as hell is not talking about a MIC.
These "vocal" Indians have been Hindraf as good as members of a antithesis alliance. When has a MIC ever been outspoken about a 'interests' of a Indian village beyond creation regular squeaks to uncover which they exist?
Moreover, when he goes upon about 'affirmative action programmes' which has benefitted a Malay village which could be used for a Indian community, he is ripping out total pages from a Hindraf playbook.
Furthermore, this total emanate of 'stateless Indians' which should additionally encompa! ss 'dis! placed Indians' has come about usually given Hindraf has been screaming about this for years as good as a antithesis coalition has reacted in a positive manner. Think about it. Hindraf has been a catalyst for any transformation when it comes to addressing 'Indian issues' for a domestic alliances in this country.
This is where Pakatan as good as Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim have been really politically keen in dealing with Hindraf. The brand new proclamation by Hindraf chief P Waythamoorthy (far left) which Anwar hasagreed in principleand will sign Hindraf's five-year plans is substantially a fatal blow to a MIC.However a decline of a MIC (and hopefully not in a "rumours of my passing have been severely exaggerated" kind of way) has eventually drawn a line in a silt of a simmering class tensions which have existed in a Indian village for some time. This should not be confused with a 'caste' tensions which have been a permanent tie in MIC politics.
The strategy employed by a MCA as good as MIC in reclaiming their lost share of electorate as good as holding up their end of a secular bargain has been markedly different. Whereas a MCA has possibly embroiled itself in a shade play uncover of defiance towards Umno, (where Umno stays silent upon MCA attacks upon a supremacist ideology or blusters regulating a outsourced thugs) or zeroed in upon a "Islamic" bulletin of PAS, a MIC seems to have reverted to extreme sycophancy as a means of domestic survival.
A great example of this is MP P Kamalanathan (Hulu Selangor) (right in photo) who during a march of a hotly contested Hulu Selangor chair justified a existence of right-wing pressure group Perkasa as a healthy extension of village governing body as good as which a group was merely seeking after a interests of a Malay community, most similar to a MIC was for a Indian community.Helen Ang, a single of a some-more (if not a most) judicious observers of a Indian experience in this cou! ntry, di ssects Kamalanathan's position in'Why MIC Hulu Selangor candidate defends Perkasa?'and succinctly ends her square by alluding to a 'mandore' underpinnings of a MIC.
"Kamal's defence of this ultra-movement is untenable though not astonishing as after all, this is a candidate who pronounced which he would "take behind a sovereign chair as good as deliver it to Prime Minister Najib Razak as present for his first year in office? Like a housecat boring in an charity of a prisoner mouse," writes Helen in conclusion.
Common DNA
However, what you would argue is which a MIC as good as Perkasa share common DNA when it comes to their purpose in competition governing body in this country. Whereas Perkasa reflects a conservative hostility towards viewed slights outwards against o! ther comm! unities, a MIC turns it rage inwards towards a own community.
In other words, a MIC over a long Umno watch became a Indian communities' own small Perkasa nightmare in conditions of a bullying force whose sole bulletin was to keep everyone in line.
Just as Perkasa's purpose is to maintain a hegemony of Umno elites by a inclination of competition as good as religion, a MIC, suppressed inner dissent as good as any goal of evolutionary change by a perpetuation of standing governing body as good as a enlightenment of vulgar cronyism as good as sycophancy to maintain a order of a chosen few, who seemed to revel in their 'house negro' status inside of a BN.
Both entities savoured a bully proceed to politics. The brand new story of a MIC is repl! ete with distant too most examples where muscle was lucky over receptive dialogue. By a own admission, a MIC welcomes 'reformed' criminals as good as to contend zero of a well-documented rumours of a intersection of a criminal black market as good as a plums domestic positions inside of a MIC.As a long-time former MIC politico tells me, all of this would mean zero if a Indian village benefitted from a crime inside of a MIC. He goes upon to contend "the MIC representing a smallest ethnic group in this nation should have had a satisfactory easier time ... what is a word again ... 'uplifting' a village with a 'goodies' thrown a way. But a masters knew a greed of their servants, as good as they knew damn good a income was not starting where it was ostensible to go".
This brings us behind to a 'class' being of a post-MIC era. These days a some-more you read upon 'Indian' issues, a some-more it becomes transparent which a class groups inside of a Indian village is reflected in a tensions in between an 'Indian' social as good as domestic organisations similar to Hindraf/Human Rights Party as good as antithesis forces which work under a multicultural cloak similar to Pakatan.
MIC's disaster is not a single of 'race' though a single of 'class'. This should warn nobody given a noxious fumes of 'caste' has always been embedded in 'class'. There is most to blame Umno for though a being is which a MIC had a one after another bulletin of promulgating a enlightenment of subservience which served not usually Umno ends though additionally some-more importantly theirs.
The MIC has no forgive for a horrible state which a sizeable territory of a Indian village find themselves in. Unlike a MCA, which never authorised a crime to get in a proceed of implementing discernible programmes which would safeguard a incomparable slice of a economic pie, a MIC authorised crime to become a raison d'etre of a existence.
The same can be pronounced of Umno, actually. What it chose to do is define Indian village ! expectat ions in such a proceed which it was neither necessary nor domestic expedient for a Umno machine to perform them.
Culture of subservience
This is why an organization similar to Hindraf is aversion to a current discourse. They neither pay courtesy to a enlightenment of subservience which characterised a Indian village nor welcome a 'multicultural identity' of oppositional politics.
However, what a Hindraf as good as Pakatan fondness might create is a brand new proceed of recognising as good as addressing a problems inside of a Indian community. A sermon which is cognizant of competition though which (hopefully) ultimate goal is for a class-based approach. It is additionally a partnership of equals or during slightest it is a partnership which has been completed after an extremely torturous courting phase.
What this possible agreement/alliance in between Pakatan as good as Hindraf demonstrates is which an Indian-based NGO can negotiate a settlement with a domestic celebration creation a necessary compromises (if any) upon a own trems.
And this is critical after years of a MIC subservience culture. Now most would find this discomforting. When you have mocked Hindraf as a racist organisation, it is difficult to face a secular being where compromises need to be made for domestic presence in an every vote counts environment.
However, what a Indian village needs to do is commission itself as good as a first proceed to do this is a rejecting of a MIC as good as to set up accord with parties which could make their (Hindraf's) aspirations a reality.
Even if this does not work out, during slightest for a first time, it would have been something which was ! finished upon a community's own conditions as good as not an bul! letin se t out by a appeasers in a MIC.
However, what a Hindraf as good as Pakatan fondness might create is a brand new proceed of recognising as good as addressing a problems inside of a Indian community. A sermon which is cognizant of competition though which (hopefully) ultimate goal is for a class-based approach. It is additionally a partnership of equals or during slightest it is a partnership which has been completed after an extremely torturous courting phase.
What this possible agreement/alliance in between Pakatan as good as Hindraf demonstrates is which an Indian-based NGO can negotiate a settlement with a domestic celebration creation a necessary compromises (if any) upon a own trems.And this is critical after years of a MIC subservience culture. Now most would find this discomforting. When you have mocked Hindraf as a racist organisation, it is difficult to face a secular being where compromises need to be made for domestic presence in an every vote counts environment.
However, what a Indian village needs to do is commission itself as good as a first proceed to do this is a rejecting of a MIC as good as to set up accord with parties which could make their (Hindraf's) aspirations a reality.
Even if this does not work out, during slightest for a first time, it would have been something which was ! finished upon a community's own conditions as good as not an bul! letin se t out by a appeasers in a MIC.
S THAYAPARAN is Commander (rtd) of a Royal Malaysian Navy.
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