KKB polls the straw that broke the PH-BN coalition’s back?

 

WHATEVER the outcome of today’s (May 11) Kuala Kubu Baharu (KKB) by-election, the protests of Indian voters which began in the 2023 six state elections against the Pakatan Harapan (PH)-led government will be further amplified.

The reverberations of such an amplification will be concretely expressed in the coming months and years leading up to the next general elections.

It took decades before the Barisan Nasional (BN) government was dethroned as the non-representative of the Malays, Chinese and Indians.

It took only less than two decades for the PH coalition to show its true colours. All the dances and other cultural enticements are not working to the advantage of the Madani regime in terms of getting Indian support.

Certainly not if Indians are insulted by calling them “Keling”, asking the community not to question the society contract, the religious conversion of an Indian youth and not the least the non-appointment of an Indian Tamil as minister in the cabinet.

With the shameful representation of Indians, the Madani government under Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been exposed as hypocritical, shameless and outright insulting towards the Indians.

Needless to say, the Indian sycophants and apple polishers in the PH coalition will be singing songs of praise to the so-called unity government and Anwar.

Indians sidelined

Indians don’t have rights in the country, discriminated and shunned in the public service, subjected ethnic discrimination in the entry to matriculation and public universities’ programmes and others.

The Indian community is given peanuts in financial assistance to be shamelessly accepted and endorsed by the sycophants in the government.

PH coalition components, namely DAP and PKR, are hardly representatives of Indians for having relegated the community to the third or fourth echelon levels.

While DAP is proving hard to be the sole representation of the Chinese, PKR wants to outdo UMNO in representing the Malays.

However, the myth of multi-racialism is kept alive to show that both the parties are representatives of the broad cross section of the society.  Nothing can be further from this nauseating actual truth.

Prof Ramasamy Palanisamy

Some mercenary writers are giving the impression that PH/DAP candidate will win the election as result of the inter-play of ethnic and religious factors.

These writers who claim to be objective have failed to understand the discontent especially among the Indians and Malays. For obvious reasons, they are mainly focusing on the Malays and Chinese but failed to capture the dynamics of Indian voters.

With 18% Indian voters in the KKB constituency, it is clear who will be the actual kingmakers. However, their analysis of identity politics fails to explain how the shift of Indian voters away from PH/DAP will be crucial in explaining the outcome of the KKB polls.

Unless of course, Indians don’t matter in the myopic analysis of these writers who are rallying to get the attention of the powers to be. It is sickening to note that these experts have been wrong in predicting past elections outcomes in the country.

Will the KKB by-election be the straw that broke the back of the Madani government?

Former DAP stalwart and Penang chief minister II Prof Ramasamy Palanisamy is chairman of the United Rights of Malaysian Party (Urimai) interim council.

The views expressed are solely of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.

- Focus Malaysia