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SNAPSHOT | RM9.25m collected for Najib; Zahid urges Indian-based parties to be in one voice
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Close to RM10 million has been collected by the fundraiser to...
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Over RM9 million has been collected by the fundraiser to help former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak pay his SRC International fine so he can undergo house arrest.
BN chief Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that as of 10am today, RM9.25 million has been raised.
“This is not enough to meet the RM50 million target.
“Efforts are being made to increase the crowdfunding, and I hope that our friends will help us soon so the target set by the Appeal’s Board can be met and the condition for house arrest is fulfilled,” he told a press conference today.
Earlier, Zahid urged all Indian-based parties that were “Friends of BN”, together with BN component MIC, to speak in one voice on issues affecting the Indian community.
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“When we’re talking about Indian issues, do not have any differences between political parties in BN.
“Be in one voice to fight for the Indian community, under the BN banner,” he said at the opening of Makkal Sakti Party’s annual general meeting (above) today.
Zahid also lauded Makkal Sakti president RS Thanenthiran for being a “loyal friend” of not only BN but also Najib.
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Zahid’s call for “Indian-based” parties to speak with one voice is about as absurd as it gets. “Indian” is a misleading colonial label imposed upon the extraordinarily diverse peoples whose ancestors came from British India. They include Tamils—the vast majority in Malaysia—alongside Malayalees, Telugus, Punjabis, Bengalis, Gujaratis, Pathans and others, representing hundreds of languages and distinct histories. The photograph of men and women dressed uniformly in ochre, apparently giving the gathering a religious dimension, looks more like a Saturday Night Live sketch than serious Malaysian politics. It merely replaces one crude racial category with religious political theatre. Few Malaysians are likely to buy this attempt to manufacture a single “Indian voice”. These communities do not think alike, vote alike or share identical interests. They are citizens, not a political herd to be assembled for the convenience of coalition arithmetic. Nevertheless, those involved have every democratic right to organise, dress and campaign as they choose. Defending that freedom does not require us to pretend that their racial construction is coherent—or that their political performance is convincing
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