Speech by M.Kulasegaran at Pantai Remis Kg. Tun sambathan on DAP Ceramah.

Speech by M Kula Segaran, Dap National Vice Chairman and MP for Ipoh Barat at DAP Ceramah on "interlock" on 24th April 2011 in Kg.Tun Sambatan, Pantai Remis 

 
Come the next general election, the Indian voters must play the King Maker role again to bring about  a second political tsunami and deal  the arrogant BN and spineless MIC  with their worst ever electoral defeat. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Muhyiddin said that the Interlok issue has been resolved. 

But the government knows s too well that the issue is not over.

The government knows the Indian community still demands that the novel be withdrawn as a school text.

The government knows too that the book is not suitable for use as a school text.

It knows that the factual inaccuracies and distortions in the contents of the novel have hurt the feelings of the Indian community.

Why then is the government still so adamant in its stand not to withdraw the novel from being used as a school text?

The reason is because the BN government is still the same insensitive and arrogant government that it was before the 2008 general election.

Despite having suffered its worst electoral debacle in the previous general election, it has not learnt its lesson.

It is obvious that the BN government now believes that the Interlok issue will not affect the BN's electoral performance in the coming general election.

It is also obvious that, with the swing back of some Indian support towards BN in the recent by elections, MIC is also confident that Interlok has become a non issue.

This explains why though the Interlok issue is still unresolved; MIC Youth chief Mohan could openly declare that Indians have backed BN again.

Let me ask MIC what is its stand on the Interlok issue?  Does MIC regard the issue as resolved?

Interlok issue is only over for the BN government which is insensitive and arrogant.

Interlok issue is only a non issue to the MIC which has no backbone to fight for the novel's withdrawal as a school text.

Interlok issue is certainly not over for those who can see that the novel is not suitable as a school text.

It is not over for those who know that its usage will spew poison among the young and will not help in forging racial harmony.

Interlok is definitely and cannot be over for those who have been hurt by the novel's contents as well as the BN's government's insensitivity and arrogance.

If BN government continues to ignore the people's voice, then the Indian community must make their demand through their powerful weapon – their votes in the coming general election.

The Indian community's King Maker role in the 2008 general election has dealt BN its worst electoral debacle.

Come the next general election, the Indian voters must play the King Maker role again to bring about  a second political tsunami and deal  the arrogant BN and spineless MIC with their worst ever electoral defeat.

Thanks.

M.Kulasegaran

Ipoh Barat MP

http://ipohbaratvoice.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/mkula

M.Kulasegaran's speech in Miri, Sarawak.

 Speech by M.Kula Segaran MP Ipoh Barat and DAP National Vice Chairman in Miri,Sarawak on 12/4/11

Let April1 6 be a day of political tsunami which will cause Taib to go and bring about a better Sarawak for all.

Enough is enough. 30 years is long enough. Taib must not be allowed to stay even one day longer.

Prime Minister Najib said Taib will quit after the state election. Taib said he would quit in few years. PM Najib can bargain with Taib. Taib can negotiate with Najib. But the Sarawakians must say "no bargaining, no negotiations from us, Taib must go".

Bargaining only takes place in the pasar, even then a fishmonger and his customer will bargain over the price of a fresh fish, not a rotten fish.

Taib is just like a rotten fish that stinks and must be thrown away.

It is obvious that Najib is powerless and unable to ask Taib to go. So the Sarawakians must do the job by sending the strongest signal through the ballot box that Taib must go.

Come April 16, Sarawakians must vote for change.

When speaking at the 1 Malaysia night concert in Kuching last night, PM asked what is change.

He said, "What is the change? There must be a reason. If we want change, we shouldn't change for the sake of change. We must change for the better."

If Najib truly does not know or see the reason why Sarawakians are now clamoring for change, then he has only been listening to the shouting of the 1 Malaysia slogan and has not been listening to the voices of the Sarawakians.

Has he not heard about the people's anger against corruption and nepotism that has been happening for so long in Sarawak?

As such, Sarawakians must now shout louder "enough is enough" and let " UBAH" fly higher.

Let Najib and his ministers bring in all the goodies, be they tupperware or allocations or what not, let Najib repeat his "you help me, I help me" words or shout his 1 Malaysia slogan, but the brave Sarawakians must continue to shout "enough is enough" everywhere, whether at coffee shops, pasar or long houses.

Most important of all, let the enough is enough sentiment be translated into votes for change on April 16.

In the 2008 general election, the then prime minister Abdullah Badawi warned the Chinese voters of lesser Chinese representation in the Cabinet if MCA and Gerakan did badly, the voters refused to be cowed and helped create an unprecedented political tsunami that caused BN its worst electoral debacle.

When people don't fear, when people say "enough is enough", it is the BN which will fear about the occurrence of a political tsunami.

Let April16 be a day of political tsunami which will cause Taib to go and bring about a better Sarawak for all.


Thanks.


M.Kulasegaran
Ipoh Barat MP
http://ipohbaratvoice.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/mkula

Konvensyen Kaum India Pakatan Rakyat Negeri Perak

Dear YB / Comrade / Friends,

Good day to you.

Secretariat PR is organising a Konvensyen Kaum India Pakatan Rakyat Negeri Perak as per details below :

Date/Time : 10th April 2011 ; 9am-1pm
Venue : Heritage Hotel, Ipoh

Hereby, we need your kind assistance to circulate and fwd this message to all your Indian friends as to encourage them to attend this convention which is first time being held in Ipoh.

Please highlight this program via your blog/facebook/twitter, etc.

As this is a pre-registration program, the participants can email their names & contact numbers to :

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before 9th April 2011.

Your assistance in the dissemination of this program's info is utmost appreciated.

Please do join us in this convention...

Tq & Regards,

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Prog Assistant Secretary
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M.Kulasegaran "BN government is still the same arrogant, insensitive and non responsive"

Speech by M Kula Segaran, DAP National Vice Chairman and Mp for Ipoh Barat at Ceramah held at Kg Tawas , Ipoh on Friday, 1st April, 2011

The Interlok issue has clearly proven that the BN government is still the same arrogant, insensitive and non responsive government that it was prior to the 2008 general election.

On 30th March, 2011, Chinese associations from across Malaysia in a statement issued said the Interlok was not only offensive to Indians but Chinese as well, as it depicted the character Kim Lock as a "miserly opium addict and callous adulterer" and his son, Cing Huat, as "cunning, greedy, unscrupulous and someone who would happily sell his daughters".

"'Interlok' in its totality propagates the ideology of ketuanan Melayu. In our considered opinion, this novel is not only unhealthy but an insidious poison," the statement said.

The statement added, "In fact, 'Interlok' is barely a step away from the Biro Tata Negara (BTN) brainwashing that promotes racism and disunity.

'Interlok' conveys the central message that Chinese, Indian and other minorities are second-class citizens in addition to perpetuating the divisive notion of a host community (the Malays) versus foreigners ('bangsa asing' Cina dan India)."

The statement was signed by the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH), LLG Cultural Development Centre, Malaysian-China Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of Chinese Associations Johor, the Penang Chinese Town Hall and 40 others, including the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST), Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia (SABM) and several Indian organisations.

I am glad that the group has come out to lend support to the voice calling for the withdrawal of the novel as a school text book.

The issue has been allowed to drag on long enough by a government which has declared the era the government knows best is over.

It is so plain for all to see that the novel is totally unsuitable as a school text. It is so clear that the book will not be able to promote unity.

In the statement released d by the group, some excerpts appended as evidence of the book's alleged racism include:

* "We eat anything. Roots if we can get them. We beg. We steal. We don't have a daughter. If we have a daughter, we can sell her." (Kim Hock, pp 119-120)

* Kim Lock takes Mei Hwa to smoke opium and has sex with her every time they meet like that. (p 200)

* In a big and strange city like this, people cannot be kind, if they are kind they can't be rich. Here money becomes the measure. In this world, money is the number two God. (pp 155-156)

* "Cina Panjang says all that land rightfully belongs to him. The cows we kept are also his. My father pawned it to him." (p 88)

* Seman said he gave all the land to Cina Panjang, and the Chinese man then asked Seman to leave the kampung. (p 92)

The Indian community has been hurt by the factual distortions and inaccuracies in the novel as well the demeaning words contained therein.

Yet the government is not prepared to do what is right and necessary.

The Interlok issue has clearly proven that the BN government is still the same arrogant, insensitive and non responsive government that it was prior to the 2008 general election.

It is obvious that the BN government has not learned the lessons of the 2008 general election when it suffered its worst ever electoral debacle.

If the BN government is unwilling to change its stand on the Interlok issue, then the people must be prepared to teach BN a bigger lesson come the next general election—Change the federal government.


Thanks

M.Kulasegaran
Ipoh Barat MP

M.Kula Segaran "Pakatan’s situation viv-a-vis Indians "

Speech by M.Kula Segaran MP Ipoh Barat and DAP National Vice Chairman at the PR INDIAN LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE SESSION in Penang on 2/4/11

Pakatan's situation viv-a-vis Indians

First things, first. Indian or, more precisely, Hindu sentiment played a galvanizing role in the prelude and culmination of the last general election.

Indians were aggrieved by the videotape of the destruction of a nearly century-old temple in Shah Alam that took place in July 2007.

Hindraf disseminated the tape widely and used it to draw a huge throng of supporters to their famous gathering of 25th November, 2007. Some say, Chinese voters took heart from the display of Hindu solidarity and were moved to join Indians and disenchanted Malays in rejecting BN in the general election of March 2008.

The spectacle of Hindu activism which helped deny BN their customary two-thirds majority in Parliament and the loss of four states - Penang, Perak, Kedah and Selangor - to the opposition Pakatan Rakyat, in addition to Pas' retention of Kelantan, inevitably stoked unrealistic expectations on the part of Indian Malaysians.

This was understandable given the magnitude of results of the general election. Pakatan, despite granting due recognition to Indian electoral support by giving a deputy chief ministership and a speaker's post to Indians, were at a disadvantage when trying to meeting the broader expectations of the community.

Increased allocations for Tamil schools, land for squatters for residential and agro-based enterprises, scholarships for poor Indian students, higher intake of Indians into the civil service, allocations for welfare programmes targeting Indians, and allocations for the upkeep of crematoriums, were measures that required Pakatan' control of the federal government rather than merely the control of a few, albeit, significant states.

The Kampong Buah Pala issue on Penang island underscored the helplessness of Pakatan in trying to satisfy the needs of Indians in the face of the control of bureaucracies and ancillary matters by authorities if not hostile, then unsympathetic to Pakatan.

What more could the Pakatan Government have done in the Kg. Buah Pala case?
The MIC manipulated and gave a negative picture of the Kg.Buah Pala issue successfully to the voters in the by-elections for the state seat of Bagan Pinang in Negri Sembilan in October 2009 and in the parliamentary seat of Hulu Selangor in April 2010.

The euphoria over Indian success at helping to change the political scenario in the country had waned by the middle of 2010, causing analysts to think that the Indian voter was drifting back to BN.


BN by-election victories in Tenang in Johor, Kerdau and Merlimau in Pahang and Malacca respectively earlier this year only underscored the talk of Indian disenchantment with Pakatan and a return to BN.

How do we check and reverse this trend?

There is no magic formula for Indian betterment that does not require Pakatan's occupation of Putrajaya. A Pakatan central government would improve the fortunes of Indians across the board -- from employment in the civil service, to mother tongue education, to land for the deserving landless.

But short of occupation of Putrajaya, what can Pakatan do tell Indian Malaysians that their future is better sticking with Pakatan than returning to BN.

Fortunately, for Pakatan the Interlok issue, which Indians brought up for national attention, has now stirred the Chinese to anger and denunciation of the novel.

Pakatan has to fight this novel's retention as a literary text in schools not only because it is derogatory to Indians, Chineses and also Malays, but also because the book mirrors the intention of the Umno-directed bureaucracy to infuse the non-Malays with a subservient mind-set.


Therefore, Pakatan has to sustain a concerted effort to reject the novel's use in schools and tell all races that cultural imperialism is a big 'No-No' in Malaysia.

Meanwhile, in the run-up to the general election, which is expected in the middle or late this year or early in 2012, the Pakatan governments of Penang and Selangor must be conspicuous in dealing out aid in the fields of welfare and education to Indians.

When such aid is rendered, we have to publicize these deeds so that Indians can see that Pakatan is certainly not indifferent to their plight.


Thanks

M.Kula Segaran
Ipoh Barat MP


http://ipohbaratvoice.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/mkula

M.Kula Segaran " Indian last policy a form of clear discrimination against the employment of Indians"

 

Media statement by M.Kula Segaran MP Ipoh Barat and DAP National Vice Chairman in Kuala Lumpur on 31st March 2011

Indian last policy a form of clear discrimination against the employment of Indians must be done away with.

During question time in Parliament today I posed the following question to the Human Resources Ministry :

a) why Government says we have full employment when many have difficulty getting jobs and any plans for unemployeds?

b) why there is no unemployments benefits for those in need?

The Human Resources Minister in reply said that only 3% of Malaysians are unemployed namely about 420 thousand of them. He gave 4 reasons why graduates are unemployed;

1) the field of study possessed by the graduate is not much in demand

2) Many employers wants experience before employing

3) Lack of communication skill

4) Not proficient in the English language

Also he said in the cases of non graduates 4 factors are responsible:

1) too choosy to choose a place of work

2) hopping for a high salary

3) lack of information on job opportunities

4) offer of jobs is insufficient to meet costs of living

He further said that it is the priority of the Governments policy to employ locals rather then foreigners.

Its hardly believable that Malaysia has only 420 thousand people unemployed. Infact I said the reality is nearly a million or more could be unemployed and these can be seen if one is on the ground. Although the Ministry disputes the figures I gave there is no doubt at least among the orang asli and the Indians the unemployment is very high.

"Indian last policy"

Of late it is said "employ Indian last" policy is being practiced in the private sector. It is well known that in the private sector the reluctance to employ Indians and Orang Asli is well known. Although the minister refuted my view but the truth on the ground is that most lowly paid job in the private sector are held by Indians. Office boys, cleaners, drivers and the like are all most all Indians. Why?

Why there is a Indian last policy being practiced actively without any concern by the government?

Even in the Government sector its no different! Invariably the lowest paid jobs are occupied by the Indians. The Minister cannot just pretend this is not a factor to be looked into and a solution to be worked out the soonest possible.

The employing of Indians as the last choice should stop. Indian last policy a form of clear discrimination against the employment of Indians must be done away with.

Unemployment benefits

In almost all countries which professes to have full employment there is adequate protection to workers who can be gainfully employed but cannot find a job.

The rational for unemployment benefits, is to ensure that those workers who cannot be gainfully employed the state will provide a minimum sum until such time the worker finds a employable job. A people concern Government will have such a policy.

The absence of such a policy in Malaysia is most unfortunate.


Thanks

M.Kulasegaran
Ipoh Barat MP

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Ubah vs Taib