He was asked to comment upon speculation tipping him as the candidate for menteri besar in his home state of Perak.
Thasleem reliable which Pakatan Rakyat had approached him to contest possibly the state or parliamentary chair in the next polls, though which the probability of appointment as menteri besar had not been mentioned.
Regardless, he incited down the offer.
"To me it's very simple. Unless the transparent cut certain process for the Indian (Malaysian) village is in place, I'm not interested," he said, since which he has been apostolic for this for over thirty years.
Best well known for spearheading the campaign against the make use of of 'Interlok' as literature in school, the Tamil preparation romantic pronounced he is rebuilt to toe any party line as long as it is "fair, estimable as well as just", though pronounced the injustices felt by the village have not abated.
He pronounced Pakatan's policies had been ad hoc as well as unacceptable, as well as there is the need for the coalition to have the consider tank from the village to "bang tables during the back of closed doors".
"I do not consider they will do it," he said.
Thasleem al! so prono unced Pakatan's efforts to compromise issues associated to Tamil schools as well as Hindu temples have been no different from those of the BN.
While praising Pakatan for during slightest being willing to "sit down as well as listen", he pronounced the federal opposition coalition needs to do more, including detailing skeleton for uplifting the poor in the choosing manifesto.
"What more have we (Pakatan) done? That is my question. What aboutemployment, for example, within the state system?" he asked.
Because Pakatan made promises in 2008 which it could not keep 2008, he said, there has been the little return of Indian Malaysian await to the BN.
Thasleem did not chop difference in assessing the BN, describing the polices as "systematic discrimination as well as marginalisation" of the Indian Malaysian community.
"...whatever we (BN) have finished after 2008 does not convince me (that there has been) the genuine effort (by the) BN as well as Umno. It is more of an choosing ploy," he said.
Asked to comment upon Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's c! alls to the village to placenambikei(Tamil for 'trust') in the government, Thasleem retorted: "Does he even know what it means?"
He pronounced the village has already put 51 years ofnambikeiin the government, as well as should stop unless there is genuine effort to change.
"Things similar to 1Malaysia, for example. Najib, as an individual, is doing everything. we do not see the others in Umno ... Everybody is only echoing what he is saying.
"God forbid, if tomorrow, the prime minister drops dead. What (would) happen? What happened ! to Islam Hadhari?" he said, referring to the 'civilisational Islam' judgment advocated by Najib's prototype Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Passion for preparation issues
Fleshing out the single of his ideas for certain action, Thasleem talked about the need for government-funded boarding schools where 80 percent of students would be Indian Malaysians.
"This will not be for the long-term, though during slightest .. let's get started," he said, arguing which this is required to compensate for the community's lower socio-economic status.
Education should be the bona fide seductiveness of the minorities to be protected under Article 153(1) of the federal constitution ! as well as ther e should be no discrimination in the provision, he asserted.
While the preparation needs of Malay as well as Chinese Malaysians have been looked after by the supervision as well as commercial operation village respectively, those of their Indian counterparts have been neglected.
Thasleem's passion for preparation issues proposed early. In 1963, his father's food supply as well as catering commercial operation was busted when Indonesia's 'Confrontation' with Malaysia gathering up food prices.
"My father was the single of the largest contributors to Anderson School (in Ipoh) when it came to sports," he reminisced.
But hard times forced his family to container up as well as go to India in 1966, withdrawal Thasleem during the back of to go on his studies.
Needing the place to stay, he sought assistance during the lodging place for st! udents t hough was left embarrassed by the response.
"I said, 'Look, we do not have the place to stay', as well as asked either we could stick on the lodging place or during slightest get the room. (I was told) 'No, this lodging place is only for Malays'."
He pronounced the episode, when he was only 16, left the "deep wound which has healed, (although) the injure is still there".
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