Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Not too long ago, Samy was unhappy with the audience at the MIC general assembly eve dinner. More recently, he lashed out at party members during a dinner at the Klang Executive Club attended by 140 Klang and Kapar MIC members. Samy was unhappy with the members who were not paying attention to his speech (perhaps it was the same old stories or the food was delicious)
They were said to have been too busy eating and walking around, and after giving them a piece of his mind, Samy Vellu told those present to “eat first” and returned to his seat.
He returned to the rostrum 30 minutes later and said he would cut short his speech.
It did not end there. Samy also questioned a photographer from Makkal Osai who was busy taking his pictures. The photographer’s camera were later taken away and the pictures were erased. A female staff of Makkal Osai was also threatened by MIC member not to report the incident.
Malaysiakini provides more details:
The photographer told Malaysiakini that the newspaper had been invited to cover Samy Vellu’s meeting last night with some 140 leaders of the Kapar and Klang MIC branches, at the Klang Executive Club.
On arrival about 7.30pm, the two began covering the event. About 9.30pm, during dinner, Samy Vellu began delivering a speech, only to notice that the crowd not listening to him.
“Samy Vellu went back to his seat, to allow them to continue eating. He later stood up to deliver his speech but the people still not attentive. So he ended his speech about 9.58pm.
“As he was leaving the venue, he was angry. He was scolding the branch leaders for not showing him respect. He was angry because people had left their seats and were walking about, instead of listening to him.”
The photographer said he was recording all this when Samy Vellu spotted him and asked which newspaper he represents.
“I told him ‘Makkal Osai’ and he immediately seized my camera and gave it to a MIC senator. Samy Vellu told him to delete the pictures. (When it was returned to me) about half of my pictures were gone,” he alleged.
“Samy Vellu continued to verbally abuse me and my newspaper, saying we should not be there and that we had not been invited. I told him we had been invited by a branch leader.â€
The photographer said he and the journalist continued to suffer verbal abuse and threats from Samy Vellu as they were leaving the premises.
“His bodyguard approached me and warned against reporting the matter in the newspapers. He said that if we do so, ‘you are finished’.â€
The duo then decided to lodge separate police reports, as they feared for their safety.
“We were only doing our job and yet Samy Vellu resorted to such irresponsible behaviour,” said the photographer.
He also said the incident happened in front of those invited, leaving the journalist and himself feeling “very humiliatedâ€.
Wonder what’s happening with MIC members. Tired of listening to same old stories? Perhaps they are all new members who are part of the rebranding exercise?
rightfully we shouldnt be bother of his tantrum at this particular event as it’s a MIC internal function . But , since he ticked off a reporter then he opened room for outside ppl to criticize .
He has some leadership qualities that cannot be denied . But to certain extent . He is tough like Donald Thrump and he could drive results within his party . But the question is the results externally which will impact the community as a whole . There comes the minus points . Since he is power too long it accumulated.
if 600,000 members could not even change it’s only leader how could they make changes in the faction(BN) they are in ???
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I seriously cannot comprehend when such commonplace matters like Samy losing his cool (he does that every other day) is highlighted but a far more important and urgent matter of Manikavasagam and PKR Indian leaders is not covered here.
BTW I while I am not surprised by Samy’s tantrums, I do not think he or his people will manhandle or threatened a reporter (even one from Makkal Osai). If the reporter was indeed mistreated, then he should lodge a police report rather than go running to Mkini.
Im im not wrong he did lodge police report and it was published in makkal osai.
not only he has tantrum , he has bunch questions to answer the poorest indian society …… try read M’siakini report “Scandal hits MIC’s education arm”
Mkini as usual twisted the story to suit their agenda….it is SV who initiated the inquiry to investigate the issue. The person in question is not SV but someone else (clue, he was recently removed from his position).