16 June 2009
The cortege left Apartment Impian at Damansara Damai about 3.20 p.m. with a handful of friends, relatives and MP for Kapar, YB S.Manikavasagam. The presence of Uthaya Kumar was a heartfelt sight.
Earlier, I spent some time talking with Manimagalai, the wife of the late Ganapragasam. She has to shoulder the responsibility and to lay foods on the table for her eight children from now on.
Two of her children had started working a few days ago, just before this misfortune befell upon them. Her eldest son is twenty-two and the youngest, also a son is six. The siblings are four boys and girls.
She is a strong woman who can contain her emotion, but the tell-tale signs of her anger could be deciphered on her face when the moment of anguish flashed across her mind.
We all can understand the situation out of sympathy, but unable to feel her tormenting grief because we are not her to walk a mile in her shoes.
Justice has to be given to her and she has the right to keep plying for the truth why her husband left home alive and kicking and she had to receive his body from the mortuary without a word of goodbye.
She is an adult, a woman, a wife and a mother. What she has left now is just those bitter memories where she has no means to forget. I bet that if she were to be given a bag filled with solid cash or her husband, she will go for the latter. This is how I perceived Manimagalai to be.
Ganapragasam had his final journey to his resting place, while his children he left behind with Hobson’s choice have to find courage to live for all the days to come, without their father’s love.
YB S.Manikavasagam, MP for Kapar.
Saudara Uthaya Kumar
"Nowadays, a large number of my colleagues have been serving long prison term without protection and leniency of the law. Therefore, I allowed him temporary shelter due to my political conscience of which I cannot force anybody into being arrested.
