Shameless and disgraceful Uthaya
No one can be sure whether Uthaya is working for Pakatan to undermine Waytha and Hindraf.
Megat Jittendran
Human Rights Party (HRP) secretary-general P Uthayakumar has fallen from grace.
He has transformed from hero to zero within five years.
He pressed the fast forward button to become a source of embarrassment to the very community that he claims to represent.
If one were to probe into his past, one would realise that Uthaya had been fond of abandoning his own organisations to start or hop to another to pursue his selfish political goals.
In 1999, he joined newly formed PKN, the predecessor of PKR, only to leave in haste after a fallout with the party leadership, mainly caused by his own arrogant “my way or no way” style.
Almost immediately, he formed his first political party, Parti Refomasi Insan Malaysia (PRIM), which was obviously a non-starter.
He copied the term “refomasi” from Anwar Ibrahim’s “refomasi” cry.
Uthaya is indeed a tacit fan of Anwar.
One can notice this from the way Uthaya choreographs his political drama over the years, like waving to a few supporters from car roof tops, frequently challenging the authorities to put him behind bars and spreading lies at will.
Even the recent drama of refusing bail to serve a 30-month jail for sedition conviction was straight from Anwar’s catalogue of political antics.
Now he has appealed against his conviction. Real clown, isn’t he?
Uthaya just wanted to make Waytha, who was being sworn in as senator and deputy minister at the same time on June 5, look bad in lay public eyes.
It’s not an overstatement to suggest Uthaya has been an Indian replica of Anwar.
Sensing he was heading nowhere with his PRIM, politician Uthaya then suddenly “transformed” into a human rights activist by quickly setting up the Human Rights Committee and Police Watch Network (HRCPWN).
HRCPWN was focused on highlighting deaths of Indian youths in police custody and encounters, and other unfair treatment and abuses meted out on the group, such as detention of innocent youths on suspicion of crime.
At that time, Uthaya’s younger brother, P Waytha Moorthy together with some NGOs have formed Hindraf – the Hindu Rights Action Force, in December 2005.
Hindraf actually started as a coalition of some 15 organisations.
Living up to their reputation as useless coward movements, the organisations however all fled from the coalition after Waytha Moorthy became the first Malaysian NGO Indian leader to handover a petition to His Majesty, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong urging the royalty to stop temple demolition.
It was left to Waytha to operate Hindraf all on his own.
Uthaya voluntarily joined Hindraf in April 2006 and was appointed by Waytha as the legal advisor.
Waytha, who was desperate for manpower then, authorised Uthaya to issue statements on behalf of Hindraf.
Even though he was active in Hindraf, Uthaya still kept his Human Rights Committee and Police Watch Network and Parti Refomasi Insan Malaysia.
Now how the hell can Uthayakumar now claim ownership of Hindraf?
He was nowhere near Hindraf when Waytha Moorthy founded it.
Why are the media, especially certain online portals, shirking their responsibility to probe into this? Why is the media playing to Uthayakumar’s tune of malicious lies?
Why are responsible media seemingly comfortable with these lies?
Under Waytha’s Hindraf, the two brothers of course worked together to highlight various Indian-related issues, including statelessness, temple demolitions, Hindu burial grounds disappearances, Tamil schools, conversions, body snatchings and deaths in police custody.
Hindraf’s struggle reached a peak with the mammoth rally at KLCC on Nov 25, 2007.
In the aftermath of the rally, Uthaya and several other lawyers linked to Hindraf were detained without trial under the now repealed draconian law, Internal Security Act.
Waytha Moorthy submitted an application to register Hindraf in 2007, 2009 and 2010.
The ban was lifted in January 2013 and Hindraf was duly registered as Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia (Hindraf) in March this year with Waytha as its chairman.
The registered name clearly confirms the Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia as the rightful descendant of Hindraf Makkal Sakti.
After Uthaya served 514 days in Kamunting Detention Centre, he instantly formed his Human Rights Party (HRP) upon his release in May 2009.
In the process he abandoned his own PRIM and HRCPWN, and of course Hindraf.
He justified his HRP by claiming that political empowerment was the only path to end Indian woes, by definition confirming his belief that Hindraf was a spent force and had outlived its purpose.
HRP was grandly launched at Hokkien Hall in mid-2009 and Uthaya took advantage of the function to launch his book on Indian political empowerment.
Uthaya opened various HRP service centres all over the country and a website that made famous the word “mandore.”
One can remember that Uthaya was adamant that HRP was the only answer for Indians.
On record, he even launched the grand 15 / 38 project to empower Indians via constituency political empowerment.
He also insisted Waytha was the only Hindraf leader while he was only a legal advisor.
For over two years, he preferred to highlight himself as HRP sec-gen and not Hindraf legal advisor.
Waytha out of goodwill told his Hindraf comrades to work with HRP and Uthaya for Indian benefits.
But the Hindraf – HRP relationship inevitably did not last long.
Hindraf activists and Waytha cannot tolerate and put up with Uthaya, with his hard nutshell political style.
Uthaya will never listen to anyone. “It’s my way or no way” was his motto.
Uthaya was acting like a political king with absolute power in the same mould of a circus clown downed by mad cow disease.
Finally the split took place in late 2012 when Hindraf decided enough was enough with the big-headed and arrogant Uthaya.
Now Uthaya knew he had lost the plot.
His HRP was in shambles. HRP was a absolute failure, a miscalculation. He was lost in the political woods.
Now to hide his fallacy and in a way to exact revenge on Waytha, he unashamedly hijacked Hindraf, capitalising on his previous stint in the organisation prior to his rush to form HRP.
He shamelessly claimed himself as its de facto leader, another terminology copied straight from Anwar’s vocabulary.
He tells a lie that he was founder of Hindraf and heads a mysterious supreme council, magically constituted overnight.
He shamelessly announced that Hindraf had sacked founding chairman and still chairman Waytha.
The media, like obedient school children, played to his tune.
Given certain pro-Pakatan online news portals have their agenda to destroy Hindraf, Uthaya is just their willing pawn to achieve the objectives.
This explains why the so-called responsible online news portal failed to question Uthaya on what happened to his HRP, his 15 / 38 goal and his political empowerment agenda.
No one can be sure whether Uthaya is working for Pakatan to undermine Waytha and Hindraf.
But his lavish campaign style in Kota Raja and Sri Andalas during the 13th general election suggests he has money now.
His legal office in Bangsar, which was near close-shop, has now been resurrected and reinvented, kicking and running alive after kissing death due to lack of funds.
But no one can be sure where he got his sudden financial strength.
But one thing for sure, Uthaya has now become a political sham, comedian and clown.
He has transformed from hero to zero, and now a shameful isolated figure to the Indian community.
He is a disgrace to his family as no one should ever stoop so low to hit hard at his own brother publicly, no matter how wicked he is.
Uthaya is a model Indian politician and brother that no one shall emulate.
He has brought shame to himself, his family and Hindraf.
His 30-month jail is just a godly retribution to his karma.
Once, a PKR MP described political clown Uthaya as a sick mad cow.
One can’t agree with the MP more.
Uthaya surely has been showing symptoms of mad cow disease.
A mad cow attacks everyone, doesn’t it?
