Manoharan Malayalam, seorang ahli politik terkenal di Malaysia, hari ini mengeluarkan kenyataan mengejutkan dengan mengatakan bendera Jalur Gemilang mesti ditukar!
Manoharan, memegang kerusi ADUN bagi Kota Alam Shah, Selangor, hari ini melalui laman Facebook-nya, mengeluarkan kenyataan seperti berikut,
I distributed many DAP flags today in my constituency.I refused to fly the Malaysian flag because it looks more BN than Malaysian. – Manoharan Malayalam

Kenyataan itu kemudiannya mendapat perhatian ramai di Facebook dengan ramai memberikan pendapat masing-masing sama ada menentang atau menyokong idea melampau dan mengejutkan ADUN yang mewakili DAP ini.
Antara kritikan orang ramai terhadap kenyataan beliau di Facebook,
Mr Mano …sudah-sudahlah tu …for a lawyer …should be able to differentiate between patriotism and political ideology …you are commenting as though everything is terribly wrong but you drive luxury car and live comfortably …i agree that some things must change but please dont condemn every single thing that the government is doing …
Stop. This has to stop. If there’s frustration for some reason it should not be shown against the soil u were born on. Pls don’t even compare what other countries think of ours. Each of them have their loves and hates as well onto us as we hv our opinions of them too. As the saying goes, if you don’t hv any good to say, don’t say it. Hope it will be learned by all.
Mr. Mano, for whatever reason, this is the flag that we have come to inherit and it means a great deal to us citizens of Malaysia. I am appalled at the sheer arrogance you are showing by belittling this flag of ours. You may be honest, but you are honestly arrogant. And seriously you are not much different from the UMNO bunch. You have demonstrated your pettiness by playing the game of throwing insults, as is the norm in the UMNO camp. Seriously, again, how are you better then UMNO?
Personally, I don’t think and feel we should behave this way. Flags remain and always will be, how we associate ourselves with our country – the land that we love, where we were born, raised and now our kids. This land that our forefathers toiled for us. This flag is for all those reasons. What we are against is the government and all their corrupt and evil unjust ways. So we have to sieve the grain from the chaff and not mix the two together. We have to! Otherwise what do you teach your children?
as a voter in your constituency, i strongly oppose to this statement. if indeed PR wants another flag, then say it in a nice way and provide a proposal formally, not by insulting flag. being similar doesn’t mean its copycat. there are plenty of flags with just two or three colors that look the same (only color difference). so, do we ridicule the flags? and i can’t see any similarity between BN flag and national flag, save the color blue. i think you seriously got it wrong this time YB. better fix it.
Ada antara kritikan pada kiriman Facebook beliau itu turut menyatakan bahawa tindakan beliau itu, dianggap sebagai menghina Jalur Gemilang dan juga negara Malaysia sendiri.
Manoharan kemudiannya memberikan jawapan pada kenyataan awal beliau itu, yang kemudiannya tidak boleh diterima oleh majoriti pengkritik kenyataan beliau itu.
Berikut merupakan beberapa jawapan beliau yang menjawab kepada persoalan dan kritikan mereka yang memberi komen pada kiriman awal beliau,

Antara lain kenyataan Manoharan itu turut menyentuh mengenai bagaimana bendera Malaysia, Jalur Gemilang adalah hasil tiru dari Amerika Syarikat, malah bendera kebangsaan itu perlu ditukar kerana ianya terlalu melambangkan Barisan Nasional. Turut dikritik Manoharan adalah penggunaan bahasa Malaysia yang buruk dengan menukarkan ‘United States of America’ kepada Amerika Syarikat.
Macam-macam betul, boleh saksikan kritikan yang diberi disini : https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=272396599452181&id=100000455280366
p/s : entri ini adalah semata-mata untuk menonjolkan sifat patriotik NK yang tersentuh dengan isu yang dikatakan ini, dan bukan lah memihak kepada mana-mana pihak, mahupun badan politik pun. Isu Politik, biarkan sahaja orang Politik uruskan, kita orang awam jalankan tanggungjawab seperti biasa,
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