Hindraf in slipstream of its own confusion

Will Hindraf play the spoiler as it has voiced its intention to do so in some constituencies, with the effect of Pakatan candidates losing to BN in a three-corner contest?

But regardless of the election outcome, wouldn’t it be Hindraf or for that matter, anybody’s democratic rights to stand as an election candidate, even in Pakatan contested constituencies?

So why are Pakatan supporters condemning Hindraf? What? Both Pakatan and Hindraf will lose in such a three-corner fight?

But Hindraf said: ‘So what! F* you Pakatan selfish bastards … and of course (being equal opportunity people) … bitches.’

Who are the people behind Hindraf?

We have certainly heard of the brothers Waythamoorthy and ‘I am God’ Uthayakumar wakakaka, but what about M Manoharan and V Ganabatirau.

The latter two are DAP members. M Manoharan became the 3rd person in Malaysian history to win an election while detained under the ISA. He stood as a DAP candidate in the Kota Alam Shah state seat on 08 March 2008 and won magnificently, despite being behind bars then.

In that constituency dominated by ethnic Chinese voters, Manoharan garnered 12,699 votes to thrash Gerakan’s Ching Su Chen (5515 votes) kau kau by a majority of 7,184 votes.

Yet whenever Uthayakumar or some people in his camp talked about Hindraf, it’s as if their No 1 enemy is DAP, when the fact is that half of Hindraf’s original leadership have been or are DAP members. That’s the unfortunate lie to the real political picture the so-called Hindraf people have been (mis)representing.

Even sweetie Helen Ang has unfortunately walked down that same path, adopting so-called Hindraf’s postulation, perhaps because the DAP has since become her most disliked political party.

And why has Helen taken the BN’s ‘road to Damascus’ one may ask, when she was previously known to be anti BN?

I won’t claim to be the only one to know the reason but I certainly do, perhaps only one of a rare few, but sorry, I’ll never ever reveal the secret. Even among adversaries (and lamentably Helen and I, once good friends, have become so) there must be honour (of confidentiality).

Today Helen wrote an interesting article in Free Malaysia Today with a catchy title of Hindraf in slipstream of two-race system.

Disregarding for a moment the incorrect and inappropriate claim by some to sole ownership of the Hindraf name, Helen’s article indirectly alluded to a 3 race struggle, with Hindraf’s Hindu Indians (mind, not Christian Indians or Muslim Indians or Buddhist Indians but Hindu Indians) struggling in the Malay-Chinese political wake or in a position to cause turbulence to an already turbulent Malay-Chinese roiling vortex. So with Hindraf as an angry spiteful spoiler, it’ll be a three-race and not two-race system.

Though at times I don’t agree with Helen’s views (in her articles), I have always admired and respected her writings (with one previous exception wakakaka), but she has once again spoiled her latest by the invincible bias she holds against DAP. While we all have our prejudices (and everyone knows mine wakakaka) we should always endeavour as far as possible to stick to substantiated facts. Alas, Helen didn’t when she wrote: “Looking into the future, the Indians will necessarily have to pick sides and their choice will boil down to siding either with the Malays or the Chinese, the latter dominated politically by Christian Anglophiles.”

The Chinese dominated by Christian Anglophiles? Puhleeeze lah, my darleeeng!

Of course when Helen mentioned Chinese being dominated by Christian Anglophiles, make no mistake, she was referring to the DAP.