[5] Toward the end of the 2000s, the group developed a broader political program to preserve and to push for equal rights and opportunities for the minority Indians.

[8][9] On 21 April 2006, the Malaimel Sri Selva Kaliamman Temple in Kuala Lumpur was reduced to rubble after the city hall sent in bulldozers.

The only evidence against them were unreliable translations of their Tamil speeches into Bahasa Malaysia presented by the Attorney-General's Chambers, which the courts deemed as unverifiable.

[32] The police roadblocks began the week before the rally to create massive traffic jams across the city and the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

[33] Malaysian Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) pointed out that this high-handed act by the police was unnecessary as it caused major inconvenience to everyone.

[34] On the morning of the rally, an estimated twenty thousand people gathered near the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, carrying life-size portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and Mahatma Gandhi, to indicate the nonviolent nature of their protest.

[24] The BN government under Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had attempted to link terrorism with the HINDRAF rally via the media.

[17][39][40] As of 11 December 2007, HINDRAF leaders were all acquitted by the judicial courts due to a lack of evidence and a flimsy prosecution case against their allegations.

[17] To contain the movement while not being able to charge them according to valid evidence-based legal processes, on 12 December 2007 Abdullah Badawi personally signed the detention letters to imprison the HINDRAF leaders under the ISA for two years.

[4][42][43] The detention without trial of the HINDRAF leaders drew negative comments in the foreign press about Abdullah Badawi's administration and the poor way the BN government was handling the issue.

The central focus of this campaign was the delivery of a rose, as a symbol of love and compassion, to the Prime Minister at the Parliament by Vwaishnavi Wathya Moorthy.

[49] In a dramatic show of force instead, the police fired teargas and targeted water cannon at several hundred ethnic Tamils gather peacefully at the centre of Kuala Lumpur.

He said the order was being made as a result of monitoring and investigation of the organisation's activities, since its inception, by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) and the Home Ministry.

[60] On 23 October 2008, a group comprising eight men, three women, and a child, were arrested by the police after they tried to hand a memorandum to the Prime Minister's office.

[63] Albeit application to register Human Rights Party Malaysia (HRP) formed on 19 July 2009 by original HINDRAF members and led by P. Uthayakumar to address the people's matters has never been approved.

[69] On 26 January 2013 the ban imposed on HINDRAF was impromptu lifted by the Malaysian Home Ministry and later on 8 March 2013 the once illegal minority rights group registration had been tacitly approved by RoS.

[70][71][72][73][74] On 18 April 2013, just weeks before the 2013 Malaysian general election (GE13), the factions of HINDRAF led by P. Waythamoorthy signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Barisan Nasional (BN) whereby they would work together to uplift displaced estate workers, resolve the issue of stateless persons and provide business opportunities thus bringing poor Indians into the mainstream of the country's development.

[74] Waytha Moorthy however resigned from the deputy minister position he held for eight months on 8 February 2014, after realising BN government breach of trust to reform and failures to uplift the Malaysian Indian community.

[74][77][78] In 2018, HINDRAF was officially accepted as strategic partner of Pakatan Harapan (PH) in collaboration to face the 2018 Malaysian general election (GE14).

[82][83] In spite of PH was still the ruling government, RoS had on 15 July 2019 decided to dissolve HINDRAF after its central committee leadership had failed to hold meetings for at least eight times a year as required under the law.