Three significant characteristics of the system of Malaysian electoral politics make it inimical to the interests of the Indian poor. It is based on simple electoral majorities, it is ethnocentric and it works to provide moral cover for the Malaysian elite. And it has become conventional wisdom that since Indians do not form a … Read more
The Election Commission will conduct a month-long campaign from June 1 to June 30 to allow all registered voters to verify the accuracy of their voting particulars. This campaign is part of the EC’s effort to clean up the electoral roll comprising 12.6 million voters registered up till 31 Dec 2011. Any inaccuracies with respect … Read more
I thank Datuk R. Chander, the former Chief Statistician of Malaysia, on his article titled ‘The Numbers Game: Stateless Indians in Malaysia’. This article was written in response to my article titled ‘450,000 stateless Indians in Malaysia, fact or fiction?’ Though I do agree with Datuk Chander that this issue concerns numbers but to the … Read more