Mengenang Bang Samy, Kita akan rindu kerana hal-hal ini...

Kata orang, "Jika pun kehadiran kita tidak disenangi, setidak-tidaknya ketiadaan kita akan dirasakan... ".  Hari ini  Presiden MIC Datuk Seri S.Samy Vellu berundur dan menyerahkan jawatan yang telah dipegangnya selama 31 tahun, kepada timbalannya Datuk G. Palanivel.

Bang Samy telah memimpin MIC sejak  1979 selepas kematian presiden keenam Tan Sri V. Manickavasagam. Sebagai bekas menteri dan pada usia 74 tahun, tentu sudah terlalu banyak pengalaman pahit manis yang Bang Samy lalui. Sebagai rakyat Malaysia saya mengucapkan Selamat Bersara untuk Bang Samy.

Agar kita tidak lupa, saya kutip petikan dibawah untuk kita kenang bersama;

1. Samy Velu quoted on Pos Laju:
"Besoh kirim, hari ini juga sampai"

2. On one TV news when he tried to say he felt very ashamed:
"Ini prekara sangat memalukan saya dan kemaluan saya sangat-sangat la besar"

3. Samy said in one of his “ceramah”:
"Kita akan bina satu jambatan wuntuk worang2 kampong di sini." Then one pakcik asked, "Datuk, sini takde sungai, buat apa bina jambatan?" And Samy gloriously replied, "Kalao takde sungai, kita bina sungai"

4. Samy's most favourite quote on the news for the decade is this:
"Toll naik sikit, banyak marah saya. You worang ingat semua ini toll saya punyer bapah punya kah!”

5. During water crisis:
"Semua worang diminta jangan membuang aiyerr!"

6. On social society's problem:
"Worang2 muda sekarang banyak suka hisap dade"

7. During blood donation's program at Sungai Siput:
"Marilah kita semua menderma dare"

8. His welcome speech in most of his functions:
"Selamat datang saudara-mara semua" (It should have been “saudara-saudari”)

9. During the height of the Al-Arqam's saga, he said in a press conference:
"Saya gumbira bahawa didapati tiada pemuda MIC terlibat dalam kes Arqam"

10. At an opening ceremony for a new building:
"Mempersilakan Datin Paduka Rafidah Aziz naik dari pentas wuntuk membuka kain"

And of course the world's greatest joke of all times:

"Kita akan bina roket pigi matahari." One of the reporter responded, "Tapi Datuk, matahari terlalu panas untuk didekati." Samy replied, "Itu tade masalah. Kita hantar waktu malam"

Sumber - Cucu Tok Selampit

Jangan kita lupa sejarah dibawah ini;

Gambar ini diambil sewaktu kemuncak konfrontasi Malaysia-Indonesia, sekumpulan anak muda pada 17 September 1963 telah pergi ke bangunan Kedutaan Indonesia di Jalan Ampang dan menurunkan simbol Pancasila negara Indonesia lalu menggantikannya dengan bendera Malaysia.

Siapakah anak muda yang berani itu ? mereka ialah Samy Vellu dan Khalid Yunus.

Gambar diatas menunjukkan Samy Vellu dan Khalid Yunus berjaya 'menawan' Kedutaan Indonesia di Jalan Ampang KL. Setuju atau tidak, inilah bukti betapa Bang Samy cintakan negara ini...

sumber: RBF

KUDOS TO BANG SAMY VELLU...

"SELAMAT BERSARA"

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Speech by MIC President, Tun V.T. Sambanthan in the Parliament on 1 June 1965:

“Now, in 1955 we won the elections with a great majority. Then we obtained freedom in two years time. During this period, we had to discuss citizenship and various other things. Now what did the Malays do – since we are speaking on racial lines – what did the Malay leadership do? They had 88 percent of the electorate still with them. What did they do with citizenship? 

If we look around in Asia and East Asia, particularly, you will find that my race the Indian race, is not welcomed in Ceylon, is not welcomed in Burma. Look at my brother Chinese race, it is not welcomed in Thailand, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in all the other areas. What help do they get for citizenship in all these territories? In Burma, as we know, Indian have been send packing, in Ceylon they refused them citizenship and in Burma it is likewise. I know it, you know it. And yet in Malaya what happened? Here we found that the Malay leadership said, “We shall take them unto ourselves as brothers, we shall give them full opportunity to live in this country, we shall give them every opportunity to become citizens.” And so, in 1957, for the whole year, we waived language qualifications, and tens of thousand of Indians, Chinese, Ceylonese and others became citizens.  

As I said, it has been my great good fortune to have born in this country. Where else can you find a more charitable, a more polite, a more decent race than Malay race? Where else can you get such politically decent treatment for any immigrant race? Where else in the history of the world? I ask you. These are the facts. Who are you to safeguards us? I am 10 percent minority race here. But I am happy here.”  

Image from the Star archive

(Note that his speech was delivered to chastise the PAP leaders who were harping on the Malaysian Malaysia concept)

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