Pak Lah Should Sack Samy Vellu For Disgracing Malaysia In India

A Malaysian cabinet minister on official business in India was given short shrift by a provincial leader who declined to meet the Malaysian politician despite repeated requests. By shamelessly waiting at Chennai to be given the green signal for an 'audience' to meet Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and having been humiliatingly snubbed on three occasions, Malaysia's longest serving federal minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has brought disgrace to our country. It is an unprecedented and demeaning incident where a senior leader of our ruling party was made to wait hat in hand and finally shown the exit empty-handed, much to his embarrassment and great shame to the nation.

Why did Samy Vellu take it upon himself to 'clarify' matters pertaining to Malaysian Indian problems with so many leaders in India? Was it to 'explain' the issues as seen by our race-discrimination practising government? Or was it a futile and desperate attempt to mollify the Indian leadership and play down the real truth behind the hardship and injustice faced by Indians in our country?

That he was spurned by the Tamil Nadu CM is not surprising. The wily old fox in Chennai has very deep and close connections worldwide including Malaysia and knows exactly what has been going on and fully realises the culpability of Samy Vellu and the MIC. Already a successful politician in then Madras while Sam was still in Standard Six E, Karunanidhi is the epitome of the shrewd and cunning Indian politico who can be simultaneously benevolent and ruthless. He probably could smell bullshit wafting his way when Sam's plane touched down at Chennai.

Now that Sam has made a complete fool of himself in India, the PM should sack him on his return. Not only has he shown the propensity to behave like an errand boy of the Indian leadership he has also in a way backstabbed our government by revealing that there was no proof of Hindraf's terrorist links. In an indirect manner he has confirmed that our PM, Deputy PM, Attorney-General and Inspector-General of Police are all unconscionable opportunists and liars. (I didn't mention Zainuddin Maidin's name in the above list because everyone knows that he is an unconscionable opportunist and liar)

Samy Vellu has become a political liability at this crucial juncture when elections are said to be imminent. The Malays despise him, the Chinese can't stand his arrogant demeanor and the Indians hate him. So why not make use of this opportunity and jettison this long overstaying, superfluous, burdensome and waning political power broker?
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