Roses Campaign 16 Feb 2008

Roses Campaign 16 Feb 2008

Anwar in Lunas

Election Date

[updated at 14.39, 14 Feb 08] Election Commission announced the nomination date on 24 Feb 2008 (sunday) and the voting date on 8 Mac 2008 (saturday). This time all the party has 13 days campaign period.

Anwar's promise to Indians

Where is your integrity?

[updated with photo at 3.55pm 13 Feb 2008] Yesterday Abdullah Ahmad Badawi denied parliament will be dissolved on 13 Februari 2008 but today he did that in a press conference after the cabinet meeting. He said after the endorsement from Yang DiPertuan Agong, government decided to dissolved the parliament.

What will be the people's perception against him at the grass root level? Can a person who self project him self with a religious character do this? Pa Lah you are losing the integrity.

CHANGE: We can believe in.

CHANGE is Barack Obama's motto to persuade American's to vote for him in America's Presidential candidate election. He said changes must come from individual. If individual can change then it will change the community. If community change then it will change the nation. He promised the better United States of America for the American's. His policy was the major reason for the American's to vote for him. American doesn't look at him as a black man but as a leader who have a clear vision and policy for American's.

I do believe, we Malaysian Indians also must CHANGE. If every Indians decided to change then we can change the Indian community's future generation. If we can change our voting trend from voting BN blindly then we can be a kingmaker and negotiate for better future. We should avoid voting BN who uphold the racist policy. The racist policy will create more harm to country. The racist will take care of their own community and not the citizens overall.

Indians must decide to change and reject the racist policy. We should dare to vote against our own Indian candidates if they represent the racist party. If we can take a stand to CHANGE then we will be part of the history, as community who are dare to push the racist to reform the country for better future. Change your mind to vote the party who can present the policy for all and reject the racially associated policy. CHANGE FOR BETTER FUTURE. [Hope GOD will bless Barack Obama to be the President of America]

Tamil and Mandarin Signage Too

Today The Sun (12 Feb 08) reported "Jawi road signs in KL" and the reason given by the DBKL was "directions in Jawi was part of the government's effort to promote Islam Hadhari and tourism. It's also a chance for non-muslims to learn Jawi."

Totally a stupid reason. At the first place, officers in DBKL it self failed to understand the meaning of Islam Hadhari and most of them are distancing their self from the concept. It's most stupid brains to think the non-muslim will learn the Jawi just by looking at the sign board. When majority of malay muslim's it self fail to learn or master the Jawi although after going through the official education for the number of the years, how do DBKL expect the nons will learn by just looking at the signage?

Some of the malay muslim's policy makers believe they will be more Islamic then others by just converting the roman alphabets into jawi. They believe the outlook must be Islamic rather than inner says. These are the policy makers who make noises when they see english signage but trigger happy to convert the signage to jawi even though it was in Bahasa Malaysia. When it's come for the Mandarin and Tamil language this no-sense policy makers will talk about the "National Language Policy" but they ignore the policy when it's come for the Jawi in the name of Hadhari.

The open secret of Malaysian Malays is identity crisis. They feel more secure to identify their self as muslim rather than Malay's but they fail to understand even the muslims in middle east are looking down at them because for the middle east, non middle east muslims are the second class muslim community. The originality of muslims belongs to middle east muslim and non middle east is "mualaf".

We are in Malaysia, so called multi culture, multi racial, multi religion yet the DBKL's decision doesn't represent the concept of multi malaysian's. Supposedly DBKL should used the Tamil and Mandarin signage too rather than poking their nose to unknown language for the majority of Malaysian. It's a waste of people's money too.

Valentine Roses Campaign

Red roses signify Hindraf's love and peacefull struggle whilst yellow roses would signify the demand for justice for 5 Hindraf leader held under the draconian law and for the right's of minority Indian community.

Date: 16^th February 2008 (Saturday)

Time: 11:00 am

Venue: Parliament House, Kuala Lumpur

The rose's campaign will be lead by W.Vwaishhnnavi the daughter of Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) chairperson P.Waythamoorthy.

LTTE is a freedom fighter

Two civilians were killed and two wounded Tuesday evening when Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed a suburb of Ki'linochchi town, firing air burst bombs over the UN compounds area with civilian settlements, 300 meters from UNICEF office near Kandasamy temple. A hostel used by UNDP and UNHCR staff workers was damaged in the attack. Six bombs were fired by two bombers, between 3:30 and 3:45 p.m. The wounded were rushed to Ki'linochchi hospital.

The responsibility of good governance is to take care of all the citizens without any discrimination. Discriminating citizens in the name of race or religion is an act of terrorist. Sri Lanka Army are conducting a terrorist activity in the name of countering insurgency. They have gun down many Tamilian in the name of suspected LTTE rebels. They have bombarded the civilian locations in the name of suspected LTTE strong hold. What do we expect when the hand who supposed to safeguard the citizens is signing a military order to kill the Tamil people? Definitely any one in that situation will fight back and Tamilian see LTTE as a defender not a terrorist. A terrorist for government is a defender for the community and for my understanding LTTE is a freedom fighter group equal to the Palestinian's struggle for independence and sovereign state.

source: The People's Parliament

Press Release

We, a group of concerned Malaysian Indians residing in California, are holding a peaceful rally in front of the Consulate General of Malaysia, Los Angeles to present red & yellow roses to the honorable Dato' Seri Abdullah Badawi, the Prime Minister of Malaysia. We request that a representative from the Consulate General of Malaysia be present to receive the roses on behalf of the Prime Minister.


Date of event: February 16, 2008
Venue: In front of Consulate General of Malaysia, Los Angeles (address: 550 South Hope Street, Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90071)
Time: 10am – 2pm

Red roses would signify the Malaysian Indians love and peaceful struggle whilst yellow roses would signify the demand for justice for Mr. Uthayakumar, Mr. Manoharan, Mr. Ganabathirau, Mr. Kengadharan and Mr. Vasanthakumar, incarcerated without trial under the draconian Internal Security Act and for the rights of the minority Indian community who have been neglected for 50 years since the independence of Malaysia.

All are welcome.

Bhuvan Govindasamy
bhuvan.govindasamy@gmail.com

Silent Protest in London for HINDRAF 5 on Feb 1st
Photos send by: John Silva from London

Crowd of more than 1000 Malaysian Indians protested in front 10 Downing Street, London today with police permit and later at 2pm, a group of 5 representatives which included Mr Wathya Moorthy were allowed audience with the Prime Minister H.E. Mr Gordan Brown's representative to present a Petition requesting the British Government, who were responsible for bringing the Indians to work in the rubber plantation and to seek their assistance to ensure that the Malaysian government does not continue to discriminate and marginalise the Indian community any further. Later at 3pm, the same crowd gathered at the Indian High Commissioner office in London and 5 representatives including Wathya Moorthy were give audience by the Indian High Commissioner to United Kingdom, who was glad to receive the said Petition. ..

MIC protector of Tamil language?

Yesterday MIC hold another special meeting to address the Indian grievances and to strategies the new strategy to counter the political set-backs faced by the party. The out come of the meeting is not new. I believe the whole thing which was discussed is inside the HINDARF 18 points but the presenter failed to talk about the political reform. MIC actually need total reformation and not partially. The reform must start from MIC constitution and present leadership must set the date and majority of the state leadership must take the VSS scheme.

But the most damaging activities done yesterday were the attitude of the certain MIC leaders who was the die-hard of semi value. They propose and collected the signature of the delegates to close down Tamil newspaper "Makkal Osai". Doesn't make a sense, MIC called their self as a protector of the language yet they work hard to close another Tamil dailies. Semi Value must conduct special course for his stupid die-hards on the freedom of newspaper and explain to them, Makkal Osai circulation is far better then Tamil Nesan. So if they close down the paper just because they write the truth about semi value then it will bring more damages not only to MIC but for the country it self. The proposal raised the question, is it true MIC is the protector or destroyer of the Tamil language?

2004 electoral roll

Based on the 2004 electoral roll, Penang has 70,618 registered Indian votes, or 10.5 per cent of the 672,361 voters. Can Makkal Shakti rock the Penang state government which are lead by Koh Tsu Koon?

Penang State Seat

Perai (4,893 / 36%)
Bagan Dalam (3,780 / 22%)

Jawi (3,830 / 21.42%)

Bukit Tengah (2,412 / 17.91%)

Bukit Tambun (2,513 / 15.93%)

Datuk Keramat (3,050 / 15.47%)

Sungai Pinang (2,855 / 14.97%)

Padang Kota (2,689 / 14.7%)

Kebun Bunga (2,737 / 14.51%)

Batu Uban (2,778 / 14.5%)

Bagan Jermal (2,935 / 14%)

Seberang Jaya (2,385 / 12%)

Tanjung Bungah (2,014 / 12%)

Seri Delima (2,351 / 11.7%)

Telok Air Tawar (1,498 / 11.11 %)

Parliament Seat

Batu Kawan (9,818 / 23%)

Nibong Tebal (15.8%)

Bagan (14.08%)

Jelutong (12.26%)

Bayan Baru (11.52%)

Bukit Bendera (11.15%)

Bukit Gelugor (10%)

The actual number of voters for 2008 is expected much higher than previous election.