Once again MIC president Samy Vellu has taken a swing against his critics, claiming that MIC has done so much for the Indian community, similar to what former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad used to do every now and then.

He also claimed there were too many good things done to help Indian Malaysians that it will be too difficult to list all of them down.

Being a Malaysian (if I may claim) of Indian origin in this country, I must have been in the dark over improvements to the community's social, educational and economic status. Please my dear 'champion' of the Indian community, take some time off your busy schedule and list out clearly what these 'things' that the MIC has supposedly done for us in the last 22 years are. Enlighten us poor souls. What exactly is the MIC's so-called 'struggle' for the community?

From what I know, many of our brothers and sisters are suffering in the estates with terrible living conditions and below minimum wages, the majority of the Tamil schools are in a despicable state.

We are very far back compared to other races economically, our education opportunities are getting smaller and smaller due to the ever sharpened quota system at universities. We are listed as the most criminal race (based on statistics from the government). Our boys are dying almost every month in the hands of the police and lately we have also been blamed openly for losing a sports competition.

My dear MIC president sir, how is it that you measure the 'uplifting' of the socio-economic status of the community? Is it by the many Mercedes Benz S Classes that are parked in your driveway, or the designer clothes that you and your cronies wear? Is it by the amount of wealth that you and your cronies have enjoyed in the last 22 years or is it just by you claiming to have done so?

Also, as the alliance of the three musketeers have been broken by the departure of our dear Dr Mahathir and Dr Ling Liong Sik, I wonder what it would take for you to step down after 22 years, to give chance to a new bread of leaders. Frankly speaking, many of the new Indian generation are bored of your same old empty promises to the community. So please give others a chance to actually do something good for the people.

Hope to read something in the papers soon about what you have done for the community.