UMNO’s Indian Wawasan slaves by 2020

Guru Gobind Singh the tenth guru in Sikhism had said that “when all avenues are exhausted raise the sword”. As a lawyer I was neither trained nor attuned or inclined to raise the sword. But Waytha Moorthy and myself had raised our pen and we had proceeded to seek redress overseas. And seek the attention of the international community and the world! By doing this I knew that we were trading in very dangerous waters, walking on thin ice and on a tight rope to ISA detention. Our assessment was that if we did not act now we would never do so and by 2020 most of the Indians would degenerate into the Wawasan Malay-sian slaves of Malaysia when Malaysia achieves developed nation status under their Wawasan 2020 National Development Plans. Perhaps that is what UMNO wants when it keeps harping on Malay muslim supremacy and Malays being the Masters (tuan) while the Indians in particular are intended to be their serfs and slaves.

As outlined in my earlier chapter, we had to execute our plan to file the London Publi Interest Civil suit against the British government to seek redress and also to seek the attention of the International community on or by the eve of Malaysia’s 50th year golden jubilee independence celebrations i. e. on or before the eve of the 31st day of August 2007. Lawyer R. Kengadharan was in discussions with Waytha Moorthy on the preparation of the said london British Courts Civil Suit. Waytha Moorthy has had various long and laborious  discussions with Kengadharan. Kengadharan burnt the midnight oil on many days to meet the deadline by the eve of 31/08/2007. From time to time I used to contribute by emphasizing on the Malaysian Indian problems suffered by the Indians in the present day. On 15/8/07 Waytha Moorthy and myself met up Kenga at his law office in Petaling Jaya. Kenga had prepared a draft Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim. It was obvious from the Summons that Kenga had taken the time to do a lot of research and had actually put pen to paper as opposed to the many other “theoretician” lawyers. We went through the Summons and gave our views and input. Amendments were made accordingly.

While I thought that the summons was a bit lengthy, I was cautious not to interfere too much as I did not want to upset Kengadharan’s hard work. I thought
that the prayers (what we were actually claiming for in the Summons) was not specific and so I prepared most of the prayers myself as Kenga lacked the knowledge and focus on the actual and critical issues faced by the community. Kenga must have done extensive research and put in a lot of work. Manoharan Malayalam only managed to join us towards the tail end of our discussions and therefore could not take an active part in the discussions. After having gone
through and perfecting about fifteen drafts, I finally forwarded my fair copy of the prayers to Kenga to be incorporated into the Summons which was duly
executed without much amendments.