I AM sorry, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, but it is too late to say sorry to the Indian community.
No other PM in the country before you have hurt and humiliated the Indian community the way you have.
Before becoming the PM, you used to describe all Malaysians as your children. Yet, once in office, you hurt the Indian community beyond belief.
Hardly a year into your premiership, you presided over the conversion of an Indian youth in Klang to Islam.
You never cared to consider the sensitive nature of religious conversion in Malaysia.
This was an act of humiliation for the Indian community, the majority of whom are Hindus.
Soon after, you insulted a young Indian girl who questioned the lack of admission of Indian students into the matriculation programme.
The most damaging aspect of your relationship with the Indian community was your remark about “illegal” Hindu temples.
You issued a directive to local councils throughout the country to demolish temples – places of worship that had existed for many years.
There was no reason to re-locate the 130-year-old Dewi Seri Patharakaliamman Temple in Jalan Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur to make way for the Madani Mosque.
Yet you had the temerity to describe the forced re-location as a victory for Islam.
You have been in power for three years but you have been more interested in being a populist.
‘Unfit to lead country’
For you, Indians are insignificant statistics in the country.
The worst aspect of the temple re-location was the miserable and disgraceful role played by Indian sycophants in the DAP, PKR and MIC.
Despite your dancing to popular Tamil songs and mimicking the late Tamil actor M.G. Ramachandran, you never genuinely meant well for the welfare and well-being of the Indian community which has contributed its sweat, tears and blood to the prosperity of this nation.
I am sorry, Anwar, but you are not fit to lead the country. You do not have the honesty, decency or sense of responsibility required to safeguard the welfare and well-being of Malaysia’s various ethnic communities.
The sycophants in the DAP, PKR and Amanah may continue to support you but they do so for no reason other than their own political survival.
Having spent a few days in Negeri Sembilan (N9), I can attest that there is a groundswell of opposition against you. You have hurt and humiliated the Indian community for no other reason than to fulfill your political opportunism.
To you, Indians are merely an ethnic group that can be dispensed with.
Just as Indian voters turned against PH and you in Johor, the same is likely to happen in the N9 state election.
For the good of Malaysia, you should seriously consider resigning as the country’s PM. – July 30, 2026
Former DAP stalwart and Penang deputy chief minister II Prof Ramasamy Palanisamy is chairman of the United Rights of Malaysian Party (Urimai) interim council.
The views expressed are solely of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Focus Malaysia.
Main image credit: Anwar Ibrahim/Facebook
