COMMENT Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia (PHM), an offshoot of the Hindraf movement, which is led by P Waytha Moorthy, is splitting right down the middle. The national adviser and six of its central committee members walked out of its central committee meeting on March 6, 2016 in disgust at what they called the betrayal of the Hindraf movement’s struggle for the marginalised Indians.

The members who walked out of the meeting were K Tamilselvan, deputy chair and head of the Selangor committee; P Ramesh, assistant secretary and chair of the Perak committee; K Chandra Mohan, treasurer; K Kalayselvam, head of the Penang state committee and central committee member; ‘Kapten’ Bala and Devendran, central committee members; and the national adviser N Ganesan.

W Sambulingam, the previous deputy chair; and Dr S Paraman, director of election strategies, had already left for the same reasons about a year to a year and a half ago.