This is what happens when you pick an ignorant man to be MB, MIC says after ban remark

 

Kedah Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor said MIC should be banned if the party incited people to break the law. (Bernama pic)

GEORGE TOWN: MIC president S Vigneswaran today slammed the Kedah menteri besar for saying the party should be banned if it is inciting people to break the law, on the back of an issue of a temple demolition and lack of funding for non-Muslim places of worship in the state.

Yesterday, Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor, commenting on the MIC questioning the demolition of a Hindu temple in Kuala Kedah by the city council, said the party was merely trying to gain popularity by inciting others to go against the law over illegally built places of worship in the state.

Vigneswaran said: “This is what happens when you pick an ignorant man to be the MB. We have the right to ask because freedom of worship is enshrined in the Federal Constitution.

“If defending the rights of our community can be considered instigation, then PAS should be banned, judging from the number of demonstrations they have held on international issues and claims of some of them being linked to terrorists.

“PAS is showing its true colours and it is not surprising that the DAP could not work with them because of their arrogance.

“Go ahead, try to ban us and see. But if he (Sanusi) does not manage to ban us, then he should step down as MB,” he said when contacted.

MIC president S Vigneswaran says that if Kedah Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor fails in getting the party banned, he should resign.

Vigneswaran said the issue raised by the MIC over the demolition of the temple should have been treated civilly, instead of Sanusi going on a tirade against the party.

“This is what you get when immature people become MB. Does he remember his party president previously vowing not to demolish any temple?” he asked.

Vigneswaran said PAS should realise it was a “nobody” six months ago, prior to the formation of Perikatan Nasional.

Separately, the DAP’s P Ramasamy said Sanusi’s reaction to a simple question over the demolished temple showed the PAS-led government was keen on causing misery among non-Muslims in Kedah.

He said it was wrong to say any group or party, in this case the MIC, was inciting people to break the law or gain popularity when it was just demanding fair rights for ethnic Indian citizens.

“This is simply the wild and careless imagination of Sanusi who has proved to be an ineffective leader in Kedah.

“Indians are upset and angry simply because more temples have been demolished in the state in comparison with the earlier BN and later PH governments.

“If the authorities can demolish temples, some of them more than hundreds of years old, you expect Indians to offer the proverbial other cheek? Sorry, Indians are not the reincarnation of Gandhi.”

FMT has contacted the MB and his office for comment. - FMT