So who's the liar - Waytha or Najib?

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YOURSAY ‘KJ, can you show that promises made in the MOU were kept?’

Don't blame PM for your failure, KJ slams Waytha

Mushiro: What Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin is indirectly admitting here is that after nearly 300 days, nothing was done for the Indian community.

Even if Premier Najib Abdul Razak did not agree to Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia chief P Waythamoorthy's method of requesting for funds, Najib himself should have made some improvements for the Indian community.

But no, nothing was done. Yet Najib wants the government to be praised when the price of kangkung went down.

Sirach: Waytha at least had the dignity to quit as deputy minister and senator when he thought he was not achieving what he, perhaps naively, thought he could by joining Najib.

His resignation says something about the insincerity and opportunism that marks the Umno Baru agenda.

Khairy was criticised by former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad, and Najib, petrified of the old dictator's wrath, sidelined him for a long time. Yet he now kowtows to the spineless one.

WDA: Khairy, were you present when this alleged conversation between Waytha and Najib took place? It seems out of place for the youth and sports minister to stick his nose in this matter.

If you heard it from a second-hand source, you should not be so gung-ho in defending your boss without knowing what really transpired. If it was during a cabinet meeting, please release the minutes so that we know who is telling the truth.

Better still, provide us a simple spreadsheet listing the 32 items that Najib agreed to as part of the MOU with PHM. For each item, list all actions that have been taken and money spent to date. This should put the matter to rest.

Waytha claimed nothing had been done despite 16 meetings between him and the PM. In other words, Waytha's spreadsheet is filled with empty cells.

Prove to us that Waytha is wrong instead of sending tweets which cannot be substantiated, unless your goal is to earn brownie points for coming to the defence of your boss. It sure looks and sounds like it.

Luke: By calling the PM a liar, Waytha is insulting the Malay leadership as PM is Malay. He is anti-Muslim as the PM is a Muslim, and also anti-royalty as the PM is appointed by the Agong.

This is again an occasion for some NGOs to protect the Malays, Muslims and the royalty against these attacks.

Chicken blood will be spilled again, photos will be burnt and maybe even butts will be on display again. What are the NGOs waiting for?

Thana: It is absolutely wrong to call the prime minister a liar. Waytha must watch his words. In the last few years, the government has funded directly many Indian initiatives and projects managed by Indian NGOs. They are transparent.

Hindraf is not a transparent group. It's the same old story where for over 50 years, money goes unaccounted to these groups.

The prime minister has, and will help, the communities in need. There is no mechanism in Hindraf to help the poor.

Bob: Khairy, you know very well if money are given to MIC, they will swallow up the allocation.

So it's best for the PM to form an agency to oversee the allocation and it should be comprised of Indian professionals, politicians from both sides of the divide and headed maybe by the Asli Centre for Public Policy Studies chairperson Ramon Navaratnam.

Only then we will be able to see the Indians getting somewhere.

Luke: Waytha not only has to say 'sorry' to the Indian community, it is maybe because of him that Malaysia missed a golden opportunity for change in GE13.

Anon1: To all those out there who thinks it's because of Hindraf's pact with Najib which resulted in BN remaining in power after GE13, please think straight and not be emotional, ya?

Do you think the Indians could have made a difference in Sabah, Sarawak and Johor? How do the Indian votes, which make up probably about eight percent of total national votes, make any difference?

Go check the statistics of all the high Indian population constituencies. Pakatan needs to win the majority of the parliamentary constituencies, not total votes cast, or the popular votes, which still makes them 'parliamentarily' (if there's such a word) unpopular.

Nusantara: Waytha has been very quiet while in government. He was completely lost and has done nothing for the Indian community. It's good that he resigned.

Aries46: It looks like 'Nambekai Najib' has passed the buck to his 'one eyed king' Khairy to rebut Waytha's expose.

If Khairy is to be believed, the MOU was in 'cold storage' for eight months because Najib and Waytha couldn't agree on where to park the allocation for the MOU. How convenient.

So if this disagreement drags on till GE14, the long suffering Indian poor would have no choice but to vote for Umno-BN all over again to keep the MOU alive.

4W4K3N1N6: Whoever controls the disbursement is irrelevant. What is relevant is nine months after GE13, still nothing is disbursed. What have you got to say to all the poor and marginalised Indians?

Hmmmmmmmm: Even assuming that what Khairy said about Waytha wanting all monies to be parked under him is true, couldn't Umno Baru-BN have given him a small sum to at least tackle some more pertinent issues first? Very flimsy excuse, Khairy.

Adebayor: Waytha should know better that Najib is a liar and just want to use him for the GE13. His resignation is nothing to Najib and BN. What makes him think that he could get Najib to entertain his demands?

Cry, My Beloved Country: The fallout is nauseating to the core with proxies now jumping into the fray in pursuit of their own agenda. For Waytha, the way forward is to work for the programmes he signed up for in the MOU.

Being out of the corridors of power, he now has the opportunity to do more in collaboration with like-minded Malaysians.

As for the PM, there are serious allegations touching on his credibility. Is deafening silence still the much favoured prescription of all national ills?

Anonymous #44199885: As the PM is the one who initiated the deal with Hindraf for the upliftment of the Indian poor, it is the PM who should answer the allegations, not Khairy.

Further I see no reason to withhold the allocation to Waytha if the money is going to be put to use for the purposes agreed.

As for "not how the government works" - it is known that the current system is not working with the wastages and leakages as reported by the auditor-general and the many allegations of corruption.

So why not try a new way of working things out rather than be enslaved by a flawed system?


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