No.

135-3-A, Jalan Toman 7,

Kemayan Square,
70200 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan
Malaysia. Tel : +606-7672995/6
Fax: +6-06-7672997 Email waytha@hotmail.com

Y.A.B. DATO’ SERI ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI

Prime Minister of Malaysia
Block Utama,
Bangunan Perdana Putra, Email: reduceredtape@pmo.gov.my
Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan, Email: abdullah@kdn.gov.my
62502 Putrajaya Tel: 03 8888 8000
Fax: 03 8888 3444
29/06/2008

Y.A.B,

Re: 1) RM 230 Billion mid term review of ninth Malaysian Plan by Prime
Minister in Parliament on 26/06/2008 but zero allocation for indians.

2) No specific allocation for the marginalised Indians unlike marginalised

orang Asli and natives in Sabah & Sarawak. (RM 20Billion for Sabah
alone)

3) This mid term review is “50 year old wine in a new bottle” for the
Malaysian Indians.

4) Urgent formation of Royal Commission into the critical Indian issues

as per Hindraf’s 18 point demands to the Prime Minister dated 12/08/2007

5) Urgent implementation of Race Relations Commission (to eliminate all

forms of racism in Malaysia) and Equal Opportunities Commission to
give effect to Article 8 of the Federal Constitution.

6) RM 5 Billion annual allocation (and to be fully utilised) to address the

critical Indian issues.

7) Indians should not be put/lumped with the far economically superior

Chinese in all government projects and policies.

8) UMNO should stop all forms of shadow play “wayang kulit” in this
mid term review and all government policies and should get real in dealing
with especially the critical Indian issues as UMNO is no longer dealing
with our grandfathers and great grandfathers but the current, third and
 fourth generation Malaysian Indians.

9) In interim urgently setup a special Indian Focus Group to address the

critical Indian issues to be headed by Chief Secretary to the Government.

10) Indian house hold income at RM 3,799.00 per month, yet again another
intellectual dishonesty as at least 90% of the Indians don’t earn that kind
of money.

We refer to the above matter and regret to point out once again the UMNO controlled
Malaysian government’s deliberate refusal to address the critical Indian issues faced by
the Malaysian Indian Community especially as per our 18 point demands to the Prime
Minister dated 12/08/2007 and hand delivered to your goodselves’ Senior Private
Secretary on the same day. The Malaysian Indian Community is greatly disturbed by your
goodselves announcement of the UMNO government’s Mid Term Review of the Ninth
Malaysian Plan (9MP) on 26/06/2008 which we deem as being vindictive as 90% of the
Indians did not vote for the BN in the March 8th 2008 general elections.

By your own admission you have admitted that the Indian equity has further dropped to
1.1% in this mid term review of the 9MP from 1.5% in 1999. (NST 27/06/2008 Pg 8).
We no longer accept (the failure to address the critical Indian issues ) the yearly repeat at
the beginning of every new Malaysian Plan and mid term review that the policies of the
UMNO government was good but it was the implementation that went wrong.

To start off with there has been zero allocation in the RM 230 Billion 9MP Budget to
specifically address the aforesaid critical Indian issues as opposed to the RM 20.5 Billion
allocated for the poor in Sabah under the 9MP (NST 20/06/2008/ pg 4).

Over the last 50 years the UMNO controlled government has unfairly lumped the Indians
together with the economically powerful Chinese community as being the non bumi
putera category in almost all government policies, allocation, economy and affirmative
action plans. The latest and most evident is the replies given in Parliament on the bumi
putera and non bumiputera participation in the economic sector, education, small and
medium sized industries etc.

We also wish to register the intellectual dishonesty of your government in stating as a fact
knowing the same not to be true that an average Indian actually earns RM 3,799.00 per
month. Our estimate is that 90% of Indians do not earn this kind of money with at least
70% of the Indian population in the poor (earning below RM 1,500.00 per house hold)
(NST 11/06/2008 Pg 2) and hardcore poor (earning below RM 698.00 NST 18/5/2008 Pg
26). Therefore the UMNO government’s target in this mid term review of eradicating
poverty by 2010 (in 2 years time) is a near impossibility in so far as the Indian
community is concerned.

Further there has been specifically zero allocation for Tamil schools and the UMNO’s
controlled government skirted away from the issue by merely mentioning as usual “Tamil
schools will continue to be given aid and upgraded”. The usual general and non
committal game!

We suggest that UMNO stops playing “wayang kulit” shadow play and get real with the
critical Indian issues as UMNO is no longer dealing with our grandfathers and great
grandfathers but the current generation, third and fourth generation Malaysian Indians. In
short this Mid term review of the 9MP is actually “50 year old wine but in a new bottle
called the 9MP”. In the circumstances we demand for the following as we believe we
have exhausted all our appeals:-

1) This mid term review of the 9MP is re-reviewed to include a : RM five (5) Billion is
allocated annually and specifically to address the critical Indian issues especially as per
our 18 point demands dated 12/08/2007.

2) Stop lumping the Indians together with the economically powerful Chinese as
being in the non bumiputera group in all government policies, this mid term
review of the 9MP and all affirmative action plans.

3) A Special Focus Group specifically for the Indians and to be headed by the
Chief Secretary to the Government and to also be included in this group the
Director General of the Economic planning unit, Implementation and
coordinating unit, Central coordinating Unit, Secretary General of the Finance Ministry
and the Prime Minister’s Senior Private Secretary to ensure the following:-

a) The 70% poverty level among the Indians is reduced to the national average of
3.6% as per the 9MP within one year.

b) To this effect RM Ten (10) Billion special allocation is made and fully utilised
within the one year time period to provide RM 50,000.00 loans to the Indian
poor without surety and especially for those Indians earning less than RM
3,500.00 per month providing especially small, micro and medium sized
industries and creating 100,000 entrepreneurs and Indian human capital
development.

c) With this RM Ten (10) Billion to help Indians purchase commercial buildings
as done along the lines of UDA, Mara and Yayasan Amanah Hartanah
Bumiputera etc.

d) Grant 10,000 affordable homes to the Indians within the next one year.

4) Urgently set up/form a Race Relations Commission with the view to end all forms of
racism and religious extremism (along the lines of the British Race Relations Act) for
a genuine and not name sake harmonious and united Malaysian society.

5) Urgently set up/form an Equal Opportunities Commission to give effect to Article 8 of

the Federal Constitution and to specifically undo all the lost equal opportunities for the
 Indians over the last 50 years.

6) Establish/form a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate the critical

Indian issues especially as per Hindraf’s 18 point demands to the Prime Minister dated
12/8/2007.

Your kind indulgence in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Yours faithfully,

…………………………….
P.Waytha Moorthy
(Chairman)