This 40 year old widow A.Parameswary has been applying to the Penang state welfare department for assistance since 2003 (6 years). But she is yet to receive any response (NST 10/10/09 at page 27) Also in Makkal Osai 10/10/09 front page (See both newspaper below). This is just the tip of the iceberg of this UMNO’s racist and religious extremist policies excluding even the poor and working class deserving Indians from receiving Welfare help. To add to her misery, Parameswary has a 19 year old son who is mentally and visually disabled. She needs RM 250.00 a month to buy adult pampers and special milk powder for this son.
Had Parameswar had been a Malay muslim, the UMNO controlled Malaysian government would have given her the due welfare department help she and her son needed. But poor Parameswary happens to be born an Indian which she had not asked for!
These extent of racism and religious extremism does not happen in any other part of the world except in UMNO Malaysian Prime Minister’s One Malaysia.
P.Uthayakumar
HRP Secetary General
