Columnist Zubaidah Abu Bakar in today’s New Straits Times,29/10/11 at page 16 wrote that  “even the outlawed Hindraf admitted in Singapore that Indians were split down the middle.”According to Hindraf’s analysis,the opposition stands to lose between 22 and 50 state seats and 10 and 18 parliamentary constituencies in a 20% to 50% Indian vote swing. Including Lembah Pantai of Nurul Izzah with a 30% swing in Indian votes for BN, says academic Dr.Ong Kian Ming. ” A recent survey claimed that in a close contest,the outcome of 130 state seats in Kedah,Perak, Selangor, N.Sembilan,Penang and Johor could be determined by Indian votes”.

As if a coincidence senior journalist K.Baradan in his political analysis today in The Star,29/19/11 at page 36 titled “Winning back their ‘nambikai’(minus the UMNO implementation as successfully done for the Malay muslims) quoting UMNO Prime Minister Najib Razak sub headlined “What matters now to Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak are the Indian voters who had sided with Pakatan Rakyat out of anger for Barisan Nasional.It is their ‘trust,confidence or hope’ that he seeks at the next general election.

In her political analysis published in Free Malaysia Today on 27/10/11  Mariam Mokhtar observed that while the Malay votes are split in the centre, the Chinese votes being largely with PR, Deepavali was aggressively being made use of both BN and PR to woo the Indian voters for obvious reasons.

What is very clear from the above is that there is a scramble for Indian votes from both sides of the political spectrum.But both want it for free.And both taking advantage of the political predicament of the Indians who may form up to 20% of the population in Peninsula Malaysia (including the estimated 450,000 Indians systematically made stateless by being denied their innate BC,IC and citizenship) but have been systematically denied even one Parliamentary or State seat under UMNOs’ jerry mandering to keep the Indians politically weak, subservient and to perpetually remain at the mercy of the UMNO political masters(and by omission PR).

But the Hindraf @ HRP unwavering stand on the Indian poor as is documented and reported on a day to day basis in www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com remains.

There is no doubt that there has to be a regime change as UMNO 1 Malay-sia remains one of the last few regimes alongside Zimbabwe,China,Burma etc that has continuously ruled the country for 54 long years.But we are not prepared to give PR a blank cheque to Putrajaya either.

Thus our stand via Project  7/14 Focus Selangor/Perak.

P.Uthayakumar