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I guess not this term but next term, since Samy will be around until next term. Anyway, its nightmare for many people to even hear this news. There’s too much baggage having around father and son. They have to clear all that if want to restore respect to MIC from all Indians.
The path is finally clear for S. Vell Paari, son of MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, to make it into the party leadership.Samy Vellu said he had not allowed his son to contest any post as long as he was party chief.
“But now, since I will be leaving, he has the choice of contesting or doing whatever he wants but I won’t appoint him to any post,” he told the New Straits Times yesterday.
Speculation is rife that Vell Paari is being groomed by certain quarters in the party for a vice-presidency at party polls in September.
It is understood that his recent appointment as party unity committee chairman was an indication that his star was starting to shine.Vell Paari is also a party youth adviser besides being chief executive officer of MIC’s investment arm, Maika Holdings Berhad.
On rumours that his nephew, V. Muthuvel, might contest the Youth leader’s post, he said he had never talked politics with him.
“He never talks to me about what he does or wants to do. We don’t talk politics at home. I don’t want him to think that it is a sin that his father was my brother,” he said.
Samy Vellu also denied that he would back Muthuvel or appoint him to a post in the party out of respect for his late brother.
“If I were to do that, I would have done so with my own son. I would have just brought my son into politics,” he said, adding that there had been an overwhelming request from all quarters to make his son a member of the party’s central working committee.
“Even my son was upset with me and asked why I was interfering when others wanted to bring him into the party. I told him ‘No father and son,'” he said.
Samy Vellu said major changes can be expected in the MIC after party elections.
He said among proposed changes was the limitation on the term of those holding party posts, including that of president.
“But this is not final. It has to be put to delegates at the general assembly.”
