Open Letter to Ex-Senator Waythamoorthy

Dear Moorthy,

I am writing you this open letter with hope that it will reach you as all my attempts to reach you directly over the telephone and SMS and requests to meet you directly through your associates FAILED!

I am one of the many thousands of my fellow brothers and sisters who were on the streets in November 2007, taking the water cannons and tear gas from the police and FRU, stood steadfast to the struggle that you and your friends voiced to the government of Malaysia.

I am also one among the many supporters of Hindraf who gave our hard-earned money to support Hindraf’s cause back then.

Furthermore, I am also one of the many Hindraf supporters who were upset with you when you left the country and ran away to UK, leaving your other friends to rot in jail!

And last but not least, I am one of the many Indians in this country who lost our trust and hopes in you when you decided to sign a deal with the BN government and accepted the deputy minister’s post!

For all these reasons above, I believe I have the locus standi to voice out my opinion to you.

First of all, you made a blunder by gambling with our Indian community’s fate. Who are you to represent the poor Indians in Malaysia? Didn’t you just abandon many of those who stood with you and suffered life in prison, while you escaped to London? Your decision to threaten the government and the opposition with support only to the coalition that signs an agreement with you clearly shows how you choose to gamble with our life and future.

And when you chose to sign a pact with BN, didn’t you anticipate that you were going to have a tough time getting it materialised?

Today, after already disappointing and failing the hopes and aspirations of thousands of poor Indians, you are coming out to the public crying foul of the Najib administration for your failures! You have lost our trust and support long ago. And do you think we will be fooled again now with your so-called revelations of how ineffective the government is? Do you think we will buy your story? Are you coming out with statements after statements to convince us and build back your already diminished support?

You have to come clean this time, really. If you were wise, you would have remained an NGO leader and pressured the government to get things done for the Indians. With pressures like these, I am sure the Najib government would have done something. The reason I’m saying this is not because I’m not a supporter of Najib or BN, but I can see that at least he does something for the Indians as compared to the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, whom I honestly cannot recall having done anything for the Indians. I can only remember him as a racist till today.

Coming back to you Moorthy, if you think you need to get back the support and trust of the Indians, work hard to get it because we are not prepared to be fooled again, we are not prepared to let someone ride on us again. Enough is enough, so enough of your public statements, enough of your attacks on Najib, we are not buying it. Think of some other ways to convince us, and to be fair, we will consider whether to give you another chance or not!

Thank you.

Yours Sincerely,

R. Jambulingam