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Uthaya: No more protests

KUALA LUMPUR: No more street protests – that’s the promise of Hindraf leader P. Uthayakumar who was released from ISA detention on Saturday.

“Armed struggle is out of the question,” Uthayakumar told The Associated Press.

But he vowed to carry on his struggle through a “landmark plan” he crafted in prison, which he said would force the Government to address the grievances of Indians, including lack of jobs, poor living conditions, decrepit schools and greater religious freedom.

He refused to elaborate on the plan, except to say that it was a strategic 50-page proposal that involved “social” solutions. He said he would reveal it in four to six weeks.

It would make “not only the Government (but) also the opposition” work for the Indian community, he said.

Meanwhile, in Kuala Lumpur DAP adviser and Ipoh Timur MP Lim Kit Siang told a press conference that Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein should revoke all the conditions imposed on Hindraf’s legal adviser and Kota Alam Shah assemblyman M. Manoharan and the other four leaders – Uthayakumar, L, Vasanthakumar, Ganapathi Rao and R. Kenghadharan – on their ISA release as the minister had said that they were no longer a threat to the country.