Kamalanathan bungles 'toilet canteen' issue: MIC must take action against him

The ‘toilet canteen’ or SK Sri Peristina issue, announced P.Kamalanathan smugly, has been solved. He has apparently, in the space of a single visit, ‘resolved everything’.

There was no need for him to listen to the parents or children’s side of the story, to examine in detail the minutes of PTA meetings or to conduct a sober inquiry in any form. He expansively swept everything under the carpet, where it may fester and eat at the fragile fabric of our society.

Kamalanathan has done the nation a disservice by not conducting a responsible inquiry into this incident. He seems intent on trying to cover up things to the extent that his actions can only be considered to be gross dereliction of duty.

He is also deaf to the voice of the people, a luxury that neither the MIC nor the BN can afford post the 2013 elections. His lack of concern for the traumatized students is also clear as he has proposed no form of counselling for them.

Parents confronted the cowardly Kamalanathan

All fair-minded Malaysians are outraged by the sight of little children being forced to eat in toilets. The parents remain upset and Kamalanathan was confronted outside the school by them. Many questions have been left unanswered by Kamalanathan’s hasty piece of theatre this afternoon.

The school said the room was clean. The chidren described it as narrow and smelly.

The school said this had been going on for 3 months. The parents said the children were moved there two days after the fasting month started.

Kamalanathan said it has been resolved. The parents say it has not.

The Headmaster has apologized. So has Alvivi.

Incompetence, flimsy excuses

Kamalanathan has been repeatedly, and firmly, putting his foot in his mouth over the past weeks. He said that matriculation is open to everyone when it is not.

He said that he will try to solve the IPTA issue next year when he should be resolving this year’s problem. He said that he has been only the Deputy Minister for 2 months, which is a flimsy excuse for incompetence.

Practising the politics of lame excuses and non-accountability that prevailed before 2008 is no longer acceptable to the electorate. Politicians from both sides of the divide have demanded for a probe. Even the BN’s Education Minister had said that a probe will be conducted.

Kamalanathan is precisely the kind of pliant, servile Indian politician (as proven by the widely distributed pictures of him kissing Muhyiddin’s hand) that the MIC cannot afford.

He is focused, it would seem, on self-advancement and earning brownie points from Umno to the extent that he is ready to cover up issues of the utmost seriousness.

If MIC does not act on this invertebrate creature, it is conclusive proof that they are all the same.

MAILBAG