Friday, January 11, 2008

Where was P. Waytha Moorthy?

The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas or Indian Diaspora Day just concluded its meeting in New Delhi. Samy Vellu led a 70-person team there and spent considerable effort 'correcting' the issues of marginalisation of Indian Malaysians here.

It seemed he oversold. Malaysiakini reports that fellow participants who were there in their own capacity claimed Samy made light of the issues raised by Hindraf here, which had culminated in a 30,000 show of defiance on Nov25.

Whatever. Did you really expect anything honest from SV, who's the proxy tongue of the BN govt?

i thought the media missed asking one key question:

Where was P. Waytha Moorthy?

The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas would've been the perfect platform to disemminate information and garner support. There were people of Indian Origin from just about every nook and corner in the world and from all sectors from politics to welfare. The Hindraf leader-in-exile could have done so much for the group's cause.

Plus what better way to knock down Samy Vellu's posturings than by attending his plenary session live in person?

But just where was P. Waytha Moorthy? Surely he must've known, must realised the value of attending the conference. Yet he was missing. And our media never even questioned; not even Malaysiakini.

Why?

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