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COMMENT | Gatco settlers’ saga - the great Harapan betrayal

COMMENT | The Gatco settlers have been betrayed many times by many parties. They thought all this would end with Pakatan Harapan taking power in 2018.

How better to describe this than to take a line from Karl Marx, “History repeats itself; first as tragedy, second as farce.”

The two statements on the issue by DAP and Harapan's Negeri Sembilan exco S Veerapan that were carried in the Tamil media on Nov 25 and 29, 2020 were a shocking example of the worst kind of betrayal.

Veerapan said that the remaining Gatco Settlers and buyers will be only offered four acres and two acres of land respectively and that this was final. This goes against all the actions, statements and rhetoric the Harapan leaders, especially those in Negeri Sembilan had been saying all this while.

MIC leaders had a field day, and rightfully so, attacking Veerapan and his counterparts, especially Ravi Munusamy, P Gunasekaren and Arul Kumar... 

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