(FMT) -- Hindraf has cast aspersions on the sincerity of Prime
Minister Najib Tun Razak’s invitation to hold a discussion. The
premier’s courtship, said Hindraf chairman P Waythamoorthy, had not
left the movement flushed with excitement as it could be related to the
coming general election.
“We are not exactly excited about this invitation but we have decided to give him the benefit of doubt,” he told reporters here.
He said the invitation had come late on the part of the government since the Indian poor had been marginalised for decades.
Waythamoorthy also urged Najib to lift the ban on Hindraf imposed by his predecessor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s administration.
“It does not make sense for the prime minister to meet leaders of a banned organisation.
“There
is no timeline on when it should be lifted but of course we would like
for the ban to be lifted as soon as possible,” he added.
Hindraf
had become a foul word during Abdullah’s tenure after the movement
staged a massive street protest in 2007, which was seen as the catalyst
for the following year’s political tsunami.
Meanwhile,
Waythamoorthy also called on Najib to shed his “current box of
thinking” in order to facilitate meaningful discussions between them.
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