YOURSAY 'Waytha, are you going to Pasir Mas to campaign for Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali? You should, to please your new master.'

Najib pact unimaginable and historic, says Waytha

Proarte: Hindraf has splintered into different groupings each vying for a share of the crumbs which BN has thrown at them since 2007.

RS Thanenthiran (remember him?) was loaned Hindraf leader P Wathyamoorthy's photogenic daughter as a publicity stunt for his grubby agenda. He was co-opted by BN chief Najib Razak and became leader of the BN-friendly Malaysian Makkal Sakti Party (MMSP).

Now it is Waythymoorthy's turn. His conniving brother P Uthayakumar, also from the MIC fold, will feign disappointment at his brother's 'treachery' of the Indians and try to carve another niche for himself on the back of 'the original Hindraf'.

Pakatan Rakyat was fully aware of the Hindraf leaders' duplicitous agenda and therefore could not take them seriously. The crux of the issue was Hindraf is in the mould of BN, which fights only for race and religion.

Pakatan is for all Malaysians. What is "unimaginable" is that Hindraf has agreed to drop 'racism towards Indians' and 'custodial deaths' in their MOU (memorandum of understanding) with BN.

Kgen: Was it enough for Pakatan to merely sign the blueprint? Hindraf also wants seats from Pakatan but the same condition was not applied to BN. Obviously the negotiation with Pakatan was intended to fail by setting such unpalatable conditions.

Anonymous #76965586: Waythamoorthy, why do you allow only parts of the blueprint be adopted by BN while you insisted that Pakatan must adopt all of it?

It is obvious that you know no political party will accept the blueprint completely. Hence, you have misled the Indian community.

Onyourtoes: I feel sorry for you, Waytha, if this is the way you look at issues and solving them.

Did we not have a written constitution? Is that constitution more supreme than any written law and agreement? Did the ruling regime which governed this country for more than 50 years give any respect to that sacred document.

What was the original intent of the New Economic Policy (NEP)? What happened to the eradication of poverty and the removal of the identification of race with economic functions?

When we assess the sincerity of any counter party, we look at track records and consistent pattern of behaviour. What track record has BN got? What consistent pattern of behaviour have they persistently shown?

If you want to play politics and seek your fortune, it is within your right. But please don't use the poor and ignorant people.

Anonymous #58815597: Waytha, are you going to Pasir Mas to campaign for Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali? You should, to please your new master.

Cala: The marginalisation of the Indian community under the Umno-led BN regime has been going in the last 56 years.

So what forces Najib to claim that change is underway when pressed by Hindraf on something MIC has failed for over five decades?

Simple, Najib realises that Hindraf may influence the vote on May 5. Once past the general election, the utility of Hindraf will be drastically reduced. By then, our Indian community will be left on the side of the road to fend for themselves.

Thus, the only way forward is to make sure that there is an equal and opposing opposition in place. For Waytha to claim that he has succeeded is sheer childishness. An autocratic regime is not known to take care of the minorities.

Anonymous999: I get it that like me, many of you guys are seething at the way things have turned out in this whole issue.

Let's show some maturity in not tarring all Indians with the same brush. Profanities and insults merely get a like response and resolves nothing. There are rotten apples in every barrel but let's not throw away the whole barrel because of a few bad ones.

Hold Awam Accountable: I'm sure Waythamoorthy is also very much looking forward to the 'historic' and 'unprecedented' honour of becoming Malaysia's first minister of minority affairs.

Raja Chulan: Indians gathered in thousands on the streets of Kuala Lumpur in 2007 due to the discrimination and marginalisation they faced for over 50 years perpetrated by no other than Umno-BN.

The Hindraf movement so happened to be the coincidental 'banner' for these thousands to come together and do what they did in 2007.

To say that all these Indians will go back and vote for Umno-BN just because a piece of paper, called the MOU, was signed on Thursday and that Waytha said so, would be too simplistic and grossly underestimate the intelligence of these Indians.

From the many Indians I know, their enemy number one is Umno-BN. They tell me that their first and most important priority is to defeat it, come what may.

Fifty years of manipulation, humiliation and suffering under Umno-BN cannot be so easily forgotten by just signing a MOU or by saying sorry.

I therefore think that the present Hindraf move is not in line with the general feeling of the Indians. For the Indians, Umno-BN is the problem, not the solution.

When is an MOU a legally-binding document?

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