Since November 2007, the ethnic Indians in Malaysia have come on stage to actively participate in politics. There have mushroomed approximately eight political parties claiming to champion the cause of the ethnic Indians

One may wonder whether this is a blessing or a curse for the larger section of the ethnic Indians who have been marginalised by the Barisan Nasional government for the last 52 years.

There have been many a news reports about the registration and membership growth of these parties. First, let us stipulate what is the membership as claimed by the respective parties which are based on the figures as published in the news reports:

  • S Samy Vellu of MIC claims to represent 2,500,000 members
  • M Kayveas of PPP claims to represent 1,300,000 members
  • T Murugiah of the same claims to represent 157,231 members
  • IPF claims to represent 320,245 members
  • Kimma claims to represent 300,057 members
  • Makkal Sakti Party claims to represent 2,100,000 members
  • Human Rights Party claims to represent1,500,000 members
  • Hindraf claims to represent 2,200,000 members; and
  • K Nallakaruppan of Malaysin United Indian Association (Muip) claims to represent 250.782 members.

That is a total of 10,628,315 members. Therefore, the eight ethnic Indian parties in total have a membership of approximately 10.6 million members.

There seems to be something amiss with the above figures. Either the party leaders have discovered, like Albert Einstein, a new arithmetic theorem or they have not learned to count or they have some other form of members not known to us.

This is owing to the fact that the demographics of Malaysia according to the ethnic groups that comprise of the population are estimated at approximately 28 million. The Peninsula has approximately 22 million and the East Malaysia has approximately 6 million people. The population breakdown is as follows:

  • 34% of the population is under 15 years of age.
  • The Malays and bumiputeras make up 65% of the population.
  • The Chinese make up 26% of the population.
  • The Indians make up 8% of the population.
  • The other unlisted ethnic groups make up 1% of the population.

Therefore, with the above information, we are now in a position to determine what would be the number of the people who would be able to participate in the political activities of the various ethnic-based political partied.

If 34% of the population are under the age of 15 years of age, then from a population of 28 million, we are left with about 18,400,000 people. Based on the above racial breakdown, the figures would be as follows: For a 18,400,000 million,

  • 65% of Malays and bumiputeras make up 11,960,000 million.
  • 26% of Chinese makes up 4,784,000 million.
  • 8% of Indians makes up 1,472,000 million.
  • 1% of other unlisted ethnic groups make up 184,000 thousand.

Now here is where we find the myth in respect of the claim made by the leaders of the various ethnic-based Indian parties. The ethnic Indian population stands at 1,472,000 million. So how can these leaders represent a total of 10,628,315 million members?

There is yet another factor which has to be taken into account to determine as to what would be the actual strength of the membership of these mosaic of ethnic Indian parties.

This is owing to the fact that the DAP, PKR and the Gerakan also have a substantial number of ethnic Indians as members of their parties. Then, we also have a large pool of intellectuals and professional and others of ethnic Indian origin who are independent and do not join any political parties.

Under these circumstances we can conclude that it is inconceivable that based on the nature of the above presented factual scenario, these ethnic Indian politicians could have real to represent such a membership unless the births have not been registered with the National Registration Department.

On the other hand, there could be a remote possibility that these Indian political leaders have started to recruit their members from the new science which arises from the human mind, called ‘Noetic’ science. This science comes from the Greek word for ‘intuitive knowing’ or ‘human science’.

This science is based on the premise of establishing a subjective experience of humanity’s inner life, in particular about the perennial wisdom of the great religious traditions and the Gnostic groups.

Even though this field of study is still in its infancy, this science may be able to establish that the human soul consists of energy and matter as they are intimately connected. As the equation E=mc2 translates into Energy equals Mass multiplied by the speed of light squared, it may be possible to establish that when death intervenes, the energy in the brain moves on.

And maybe these Indian party leaders have enlisted all the energy that has moved on after death as their members. This may be one explanation for their 10,628,315 million membership - either that or they have discovered a new equation which has yet to be made known to the world.