COMMEN T It has been more than 15 months now when the poor marginalised Indian Malaysians witnessed an unprecedented historic moment where the prime minister of Malaysia, in full public view, humbly apologised to the Indian Malaysian poor for past lapses and the BN secretary-general signed on the dotted lines on an official memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the BN coalition and the Hindraf leadership to correct the ill-effects of those lapses.

It looked like a new stage had been set for the Indian Malaysian poor. It was a culmination of their most recent struggle that began with the Nov 25, 2007 uprising that brought almost 100,000 Indian Malaysians to the street and made Hindraf a household name.