UMNO: Once hardcore poor Felda settlers are taking home RM 3,000 to RM 4,000 a month ( The Sun 2/4/10 at page 22)
Felda was formulated in 1956 as a means to eradicate poverty.
Today there are 442,000 (BH 25/2/2010 at page 4) ten acre plantation land ownership schemes but we estimate that 99.9% of the lot owners are Malays and Indian poor have been excluded from these land ownership schemes. Especially the pre-existing Indian plantation workers who were displaced with conversion of estates for housing and industrial use.
Under UMNOs’ racist, religious extremist and supremacist policies hundreds of thousands of Indians have slipped into or remain in the hardcore poor category.
“Multiracial” PKR, DAP and PAS has an almost zero record of raising these injustices because PKR is “above” the Hindraf’s racist agenda.
P. Uthayakumar
