Indian NGOs are staging a protest against the ex-PM
tomorrow over his call to form a RCI to probe the granting of
citizenship prior to independence.
PETALING
JAYA: A coalition of Indian NGOs is incensed with former premier Dr
Mahathir Mohamad over his call to investigate the granting of
citizenship prior to independence.“Mahathir should just stay at home, keep quiet and take care of his grandchildren… enough…enough….enough! The rakyat are really fed-up.
“It seems that thousands of Indians are left in limbo over their citizenship unlike in Sabah where immigrants were given citizenship for his political agenda.
“He has no right to compare himself with Tunku Abdul Rahman (the father of independence),” said Malaysian Indian Progressive Association (Mipas) secretary-general S Barathidasan.
The NGO leader said that setting up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) as suggested by Mahathir would be a waste of time.
Malaysians, he stressed, had lost their “trust, confidence and respect” for the former prime minister, who stepped down in 2003 after more than two decades in office.
Mahathir’s racist remarks, he added, were potentially seditious as it was tantamount to alleging that Chinese and Indians had at the time gained their citizenship through illegal means.
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