MIC or MyPPP: Does anyone care?

The two are equally irrelevant to the Indian community and they should stop bickering.

COMMENT

Can someone please tell MIC and MyPPP to stop bickering?

Here are a couple of reasons. Both the parties are snuggled under the BN blanket and both are irrelevant to the Indian community, which they claim to represent.

For the uninformed, here’s a refresher of what’s going on.

MyPPP President M Kayveas on Sunday took a swipe at MIC for not distributing funds disbursed by the government for the Indian community.

Without mentioning MIC or its leaders by name, he said the allocated money was always channelled through “the same show artists” who, he alleged, represented only themselves and not the Indian community.

He also spoke of MIC’s infighting and said his own party had been sidelined when it came to contributing to Indians because the “other party has kept us away.”

True to the Malay saying “Siapa makan cili dia rasa pedas,” MIC got offended and retaliated.

MIC Central Committee member S Vell Paari said Kayveas should stop griping against other BN component parties and work on ensuring the coalition’s victory in the next general election.

He added that Kayveas should instead be thankful for being given an advisor’s post in the Transport Ministry despite his party’s poor performance in the 13th general election.

MIC Wanita chief M Mohana echoed Vell Paari, calling Kayveas a cheap publicity seeker. She also said that MIC had “world class leaders” who did not use diversionary tactics for the sake of political survival.

“Does he even know that he is a politician who has lost his relevance and lost his touch with the public in general?” she was quoted as saying.

So we have MIC leaders talking about being relevant and having “world class leaders.” Is this some kind of joke? How relevant is MIC to the Indian community and the “public in general?”

Hardly anyone in the Indian community gives a hoot about MIC and MyPPP. The two are considered equally irrelevant. Neither party is around when the Indian community needs help, and chances are neither will be around even if given trust and responsibility.

The on-going drama in MIC already has many Indians saying “enough.”

And it seems rather fishy for Kayveas to come out with such strong remarks after a long hibernation from the political arena. Perhaps he is gunning for his party to replace MIC as the prominent one to champion the Indian cause in the BN coalition.

MIC or MyPPP – neither means much for the Indian community. Some NGOs and individuals do better for those in need than these two parties combined.

Bickering while snuggled under the same blanket only makes the already shaky BN coalition appear weaker.