Seats demand behind the Hindraf-Pakatan impasse



Few would be means to deduce a genuine reason for a seeming impasse over a talks in between a Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) as well as Pakatan Rakyat as referenced yesterday by their national cabinet member P Ramesh fromremarks done by himon a matter.

One has to inspect his remarks, as reported by this news portal, in some abyss before coming to a vicious bit - easily couched in verbal effusion - which has had a similar outcome of a bone stuck in Pakatan's self-evident throat.

NONEAfter wailing a "inordinate delay" by Pakatan in endorsing a Hindraf blueprint for a Indian poor, Ramesh lets upon which there is also a make a difference of an "electoral agreement with Hindraf" which is also awaiting Pakatan's concurrence.

Hitherto, no details about a agreement have been strew in a open domain by either celebration in regards to a talks.

These have not had a broadside which details of a Hindraf blueprint for a Indian poor which were perceived in a open arena.

No doubt, a need for option must have been a ground behind both parties' overpower upon a pact's ingredients, but since a salience of this aspect of a talks as well as their potential for engendering deadlock, a quiescence has been extraordinary.

Hindraf has demanded of Pakatan, as a condition for their support of a opposition coalition in a 13th general! election, which a transformation be since a right to competition for seven parliamentary as well as 10 state seats.

The parliamentary seats which a Hindu rights transformation has asked for h! ave been Telong Kemang, Tapah, Kapar, Padang Serai (all PKR), Cameron Highlands, Segamat as well as Batu Kawan (all DAP).

bukit selambau by choosing pakatan rakyat dap pas pkrWhereas, a state seats asked for have been Bukit Melawati, Seri Andalas, Seri Setia, Jeram Padang, Port Dickson, Bukit Selambau (all PKR), Buntong, Prai, Tanah Rata as well as Tiram (all DAP).

In effect, Hindraf is asking Pakatan components, PKR as well as DAP, to palm them upon a silver platter their incumbencies (where relevant) of these seats as well as (where it applies) cede a groundwork finished over a last 5 years in seats where PKR as well as DAP have been working to win over from BN.

Hindraf deals a intolerable blow to Pakatan


Pakatan were dumbfounded by these final done by Hindraf when both sides got down to coronet tacks after a latter's leader, P Waythamoorthy, met with Pakatan supremo Anwar Ibrahim early last November.

hindraf 5th anniversary 251112 waythamoorthy waytha moorthyWaythamoorthy (left), in contrast to his hermit P Uthayakumar - who was always meddlesome in a acquisition of parliamentary clout - had since a sense which as a amicable movement, Hindraf was some-more meddlesome in fighting for a agenda for a Indian poor than in domestic representation.

So when talks began after Waythamoorthy's assembly with Anwar was finished with, as well as Pakatan were apprised of a demand for seven parliamentary as well as 10 state seats by Hindraf, they were treated to a bold surprise.

On a demand for a seats itself, a talks were effectively dead in a water.
Pak atan, whose principal interlocutor for a talks with Hindraf was PKR, could conjunction secretly consent to Hindraf's seat demands, nor publicly announce which a talks had reached a stalemate.

Meanwhile, a home ministry's proclamation in Jan about a lifting of a five-year-ban upon Hindraf, no disbelief had a outcome of emboldening Hindraf in their negotiating stance vis--vis Pakatan.

mohd nazri abdul aziz interview 220206 piognantFurthermore, a idea byde factolaw minister Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz (left) which Hindraf could rivet with Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak upon Indian issues gave a transformation combined leverage.

Now with Hindraf cabinet member Ramesh portion notice to Pakatan which a latter is being "inordinately" tardy in surrender a movement's dem! ands, the! stage is set for an engagement in between Najib as well as Hindraf.

This is a inevitable option of a transformation that, from a start, has always taken a quasi-separatist in front of upon a whole emanate of a Indian poor - a hawking of their wares to a highest bidder among a competing parties in a domestic arena.

It's a poor in front of to take, because it prioritises expedience above element as well as sectarian interests over national ones.
TERENCE NETTO has been a journalist for four decades. He likes a function because it puts him in hit with a venerable but being under a necessity to admire them.
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