a small and defenseless nation." During December 2019, despite global condemnation by many leaders and human rights organizations on India's Citizenship Amendment Act (designed for addressing the bordering Muslim majority countries only), the detention camp deaths due to NRC and the deaths during the protests against the Act; P Ramasamy had a series of articles defending the requirement of the Act and had TV appearances in Indian media criticizing Mahathir for commenting on the India's Citizenship Amendment Act and the deaths caused (during protests and in detention camp for lack of ancestral documents). Hafiz Hassan, had questioned "Is P Ramasamy a state assembly person from Malaysia or an official from India's External Affairs Ministry?" on why he is so apologetic of the citizenship policy of India, despite Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India would be affected as well. Election results References External links Makkal Osai turned Ramasamy’s Apologist What has Mahathir got against India? Dr M may have misunderstood new Indian citizenship law Dr M backs secular principles only when Muslims are minorities Living people 1949 births People from Perak Malaysian people of Tamil descent Malaysian politicians of Indian descent Democratic Action Party (Malaysia) politicians Members of the Dewan Rakyat Members of the Penang State Legislative Assembly Penang state executive councillors Academic staff of the National University of Malaysia Indiana University alumni McGill University alumni University of Malaya alumni 21st-century Malaysian politicians