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25-08-2015, 11:50 PM
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Someone pointed out to me that PAP's AMK GRC candidate - Darryl David, who's Indian by birth and is the minority candidate for the GRC, is unable to speak any Indian language. Now GRCs were 'supposedly created by PAP demi-god Lee Kuan Yew' to ensure minority representation in Parliament. This was despite the fact that minority candidates can win seats on their own. Obviously we can then safely assume that GRCs are merely a vehicle for weak and unappealing PAP candidates to enter Parliament via a backdoor.
So the question must then be put -- can he converse in any of the 3 or 4 main Indian languages here - Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi or Malayalam? And speak it fluently? I think this is important as both the Indian and Chinese communities here are facing issues with a lack of MPs who can converse in their native dialects or languages. We already have a PAP candidate who lambasted the teaching of dialects as stupid - yet he himself in a desperate measure to ingratiate himself with older voters - spoke in Hokkien. The fact is many younger Chinese are....http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2015...ny-indian.html (http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2015/08/can-paps-darryl-david-speak-any-indian.html)
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Someone pointed out to me that PAP's AMK GRC candidate - Darryl David, who's Indian by birth and is the minority candidate for the GRC, is unable to speak any Indian language. Now GRCs were 'supposedly created by PAP demi-god Lee Kuan Yew' to ensure minority representation in Parliament. This was despite the fact that minority candidates can win seats on their own. Obviously we can then safely assume that GRCs are merely a vehicle for weak and unappealing PAP candidates to enter Parliament via a backdoor.
So the question must then be put -- can he converse in any of the 3 or 4 main Indian languages here - Tamil, Hindi, Punjabi or Malayalam? And speak it fluently? I think this is important as both the Indian and Chinese communities here are facing issues with a lack of MPs who can converse in their native dialects or languages. We already have a PAP candidate who lambasted the teaching of dialects as stupid - yet he himself in a desperate measure to ingratiate himself with older voters - spoke in Hokkien. The fact is many younger Chinese are....http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2015...ny-indian.html (http://anyhowhantam.blogspot.sg/2015/08/can-paps-darryl-david-speak-any-indian.html)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?213771-Can-PAP-s-Darryl-David-Speak-Any-Indian-Language&goto=newpost).