Waytha is mistaken, Hindus won't forgive Tajuddin easily

ADUN SPEAKS | Senator P Waythamoorthy wants us to move on after Pasir Salak MP Tajuddin Abdul Rahman insulted the Jelutong MP RSN Rayer by asking him whether he had put Chin Peng’s ashes on his forehead.

This was a deliberate act on the part of Tajuddin, intended to insult not only Rayer but the entire Hindu community in Malaysia.

It is not that Tajuddin did not know the significance of the prayer mark on the forehead, but he deliberately wanted to insult Rayer.

However, his retracted or half-hearted apology was not good enough because Tajuddin was not sincere or honest.

One or two days’ suspension is not sufficient punishment for a bigot like Tajuddin; he needs to be indefinitely suspended from Parliament.

Since more than 10 police reports have been lodged against him, I urge the police to investigate and charge him for sedition.

I don’t think he has parliamentary immunity to insult and hurt the Hindu community.

Waythamoorthy (above), who is supposed to represent the Indian community, came out with a pathetic response.

He calls himself a Hindraf leader but wants the Indians to move on, since Tajuddin apologised.

Ordinarily, Tajuddin could be pardoned, but on this matter, he had gone beyond what was permissible or something he could get away with an apology, or even a simple suspension from Parliament.

Just imagine if other religions had been insulted by the way Tajuddin did to Hindus in the country.

It is an insult or rubbing salt into the wound when Waythamoorthy asked us to accept Tajuddin’s insincere apology and move on.

Yes, Waythamoorthy can move on so as to please his political bosses, but Indians and Hindus with pride and dignity want Tajuddin to be punished severely.

This was not the first time Hindus have been insulted, as there have been occasions before.

Waythamoorthy is gravely mistaken to think that this was an ordinary matter.

I am not willing to forgive Tajuddin on this matter of insulting and injuring the Hindu community.

His behaviour as a parliamentarian is not acceptable.

He had made a mockery of the Parliament.

There is nothing to move on.

Tajuddin must be punished for his grave attack on the Hindus.

P RAMASAMY is Perai assemblyperson and deputy chief minister II of Penang.

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