LETTER | MIC is a founding partner, along with MCA and Umno, in pre-Merdeka times, liberating the country from the yoke of British rule.

The Federal Constitution is inflexible in that policies such as those concerning the civil service, education, economy, government-linked companies, etc, should be applied fairly and equally distributed to reflect the multi-racial, multi-cultural, and multi-religious concept agreed upon by the founding fathers of pre-Independence.

There was some catching up for the Malays under special privileges within a time frame.

Today, the non-Malays’ legitimate rights have been clearly breached with little or no effort by the Madani government to rectify what was agreed upon.

PMX continues with institutional, race-based favouritism and has shown apathy in fulfilling his promised equality agenda.

The Indian community is dismayed with several of his moves, which were against what he preached over the years on his reform agenda for the country and equality for all races in his famous quote of “Anak India, anak saya” (Indians are my children).

Yes, he has support, especially from those leaders in government positions who continue to defend him by saying that PMX has little choice but to heed the request of the coalition partners, mainly Umno.

Having said that, let’s come back to the Indian community.

As usual, more and more Indian leaders from Pakatan Harapan are trying to make Anwar good with a sudden splash of paperwork producing points for the 13th Malaysia Plan for the Indian community.

Let me ask, are all these efforts of paperwork really meant to get PMX to even look at it?

The Indian blueprint, which was produced some time ago by academics, professionals, and commentators, had enough written material to take the Indian community forward.

At the end, the blueprint might have been dumped into the waste bin, I suppose.

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