Indian dilemma

Waythamoorthy is back again, this time on the side of the people he or rather his adviser N Ganesan condemned as having plagiarised Hindraf 14-points demand. For more, see Malaysiakini's Plagiarism cries, and the tragedy of Hindraf.

Waythamoorthy 

During the campaign for the seat in Gelang Patah, Lim Kit Siang, then a DAP election candidate, avowed to adopt 11 of Hindraf's demand.

However this time, Waythamoorthy as Hindraf chairman blamed MIC for the plight of downtrodden Indians in the country. He wants the BN indian member-party “to be taught a lesson”. In fact he boasted that MIC will be completely wiped out.

But of course to do, he wants Pakatan Harapan to allow it to contest in the seats its components had lost to MIC in the last general election. MIC currently holds 3 federal seats (I won't bother with state seats).

One of the 3 seats is the federal constituency of Segamat, in which the current MIC president Subramanian Sathasivam beat PKR's Jimmy Chua Jui Meng by a majority of 1,217 votes in GE13. I also note Jimmy Chua has gone silent in recent times.

serving as Minister of Health  

formerly MCA, then PKR, now ??? 

The other is M Saravanan who beat PKR's 

K. Vasantha Kumar and 2 others in Tapah in 2013 with a majority of 7,927 votes - wow, must be a MIC stronghold.

 serving as Deputy Minister of Youth & Sports 

The 3rd seat is in none other than Hulu Selangor where 'kissy hand-some' P Kamalanathan beat PKR's Khalid Jaafar and 2 others, also in 2013, with a comfortable majority of 3,414.

serving as Deputy Minister of Education  

Well, do you think PKR will surrender those 3 seats to Hindraf? Wakakaka. Taan ku-ku lah (tunggu selama2nya).

Hindraf's position is the same as PSM's, where it's unlikely the opposition established biggies (PKR, DAP) will give way to kutu parties who only side with Pakatan when they want seats, like currently Hindraf.

As an example, PSM lost in Jelapang Perak twice to DAP. It did not even gain second position, when in 2013 in a 3-cornered fight it was thrashed kau kau by DAP and BN.

Dr Jeya, PSM MP for Sg Siput

Despite its severe thrashing, PSM has again staked its intentions to contest in, would you believe it, Jelapang, part from some other Perak seats. Apart from PSM's masochistic behaviour, could you blame Nga Kor Ming (DAP) for playing tit-for-tat with PSM by DAP contesting in Sungai Siput?

But now almost everyone is blaming DAP for 'giving away' Sungai Siput to BN, without examining what PSM intents to do to DAP.

Dr Jeya's argument is that Pakatan's hold on its 2013 (also 2008) won-seats has left PSM with little options, in short, Dr Jeya wants Pakatan (whether DAP, PKR etc) to move aside for PSM.

OK, let's examine PSM contest in Jelapang in 2013 and PSM's then-demand that DAP gave way, despite the state constituency being a DAP stronghold.

The ethnic ratio in Jelapang was 7% Malays: 68% Chinese: 25% Indians and these wouldn't have changed much even now, unless new army camps have sprung up there, wakakaka. I doubt BN would bother in Jelapang.

A 25% Indian votes could be considered a typical reasonable constituency for PSM, which in the final analysis showed(s) PSM was/is just an Indian-majority party.

But Jelapang is only viable for PSM if the party could secure more Malay and Chinese support, say at least 15% from each. I believe most Malays are repulsed by PSM's socialist character and its logo which shows semblance to communist-type or revolutionary-type parties.

aggressive?

Chinese term such gestures as showing one's 'koon t'au boe' - an aggressive fighting hand gesture

But with the DAP contesting there, how will PSM chip away at the almost 70% Chinese vote-base?

One could argue that the DAP should now 'give' that seat to compatriot PSM but alas, in the 2013 general election the 3-corner fight showed PSM came out last, yes, bloody last, even losing to the BN candidate.

While the DAP candidate, Teh Hock Ke, won 68.9% of the votes and BN 18.9%, Sarasvathy Muthu (Saras) of PSM could only secure 10.4%.

For all her party's Indian-ness, Saras couldn't even marshal together a decent proportion of the 25% Indian votes in Jelapang, yet PSM obdurately stood her in a DAP stronghold. Yes, PSM has been known to stubborn at times, but only to its great disadvantage.

If DAP had given that seat to PSM, the BN candidate would have laughed his way to the Perak DUN.

The sad truth is, notwithstanding PSM has noble politicians and Hindraf has wakakaka-politicians, there is no further room for them. Best option would be to join PKR or DAP but on historical records, Indians don't fare well in PKR, wakakaka.

Sorry, Pribumi cannot accept Indian members as its name Pribumi says aloud it's only for bumiputeras.