{"id":3415,"date":"2013-01-14T15:23:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T07:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2013-01-14T15:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T07:23:51","slug":"bn-has-failed-indian-community-a-new-government-is-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/bn-has-failed-indian-community-a-new-government-is-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"BN has failed Indian community, a new government is needed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is not a scene of a group of desperate people in some war-ravaged country. This is Malaysia and this is BN\u2019s way of treating Indian community, with packets of rice. Yes, the elections will be here soon.<\/p><\/div>\n

KUALA LUMPUR, 14 JAN: After more than half a century of trusting Barisan Nasional (and the Alliance of UMNO, MIC and MCA), the Indian community in Malaysia continued to be marginalised by the Najib administration.<\/p>\n

DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng said the Indians have placed their trust or \u201cNambikei\u201d in BN but yet Tamil schools were neglected, Hindu temples torn down and Indians marginalised with forcible eviction from estates.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly when Pakatan Rakyat state governments took over in 2008 by allocating funds yearly for Tamil schools and Hindu temples as well as giving land, did the BN government respond for the first time with funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven then the Indians are not given the opportunity to manage their own religious and cultural affairs like the Penang Hindu Endowment Board.<\/p>\n

\u201cDAP urges that a Malaysia\u2019s Indian Endowment Board be established to allow Indians to manage their own religious and cultural affairs as has been done in Penang,\u201d he said in a message in conjunction with Ponggal festival here today.<\/p>\n

Guan Eng who is also Penang Chief Minister said that the Penang state government had also resolved the Kampung Buah Pala issue \u2013 a problem caused by BN when its leaders had secretively sold off the land without adequate compensation to the Indian villagers \u2013 when Pakatan state government offered double-storey terrace houses valued at RM800,000 each.<\/p>\n

\u201cDAP regrets the lies made by the Prime Minister that PR did not resolve the Kampung Buah Pala issue when it is only because of PR that Kampung Buah Pala is still alive and exists at the same place in Penang today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Yet, he said the Indian community has given BN 56 years \u201cto build a house\u201d and the time has come to change to allow PR to do what is right based on integrity, justice and good governance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn celebrating a new beginning under Ponggal Festival, the time has come to change to the new way of governance by doing what is right for the people instead of doing right for oneself,\u201d the Bagan MP added. \u2013 The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, 14 JAN: After more than half a century of trusting Barisan Nasional (and the Alliance of UMNO, MIC and MCA), the Indian community in Malaysia continued to be marginalised by the Najib administration. DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng said the Indians have placed their trust or \u201cNambikei\u201d in BN but yet Tamil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}