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KUALA LUMPUR: MIC state assemblymen found to have applied for government land for themselves will be sacked.
MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said such errant assemblymen can also say goodbye to a re-nomination for the general election.
“I don’t want to hear state assemblymen applying for land and sub-dividing it for their relatives,” he warned delegates at the MIC general assembly yesterday.
“They should identify vacant government land and propose to the state government to provide housing for the poor in their areas.”
Samy Vellu said he was committed to streamlining the party to ensure that the problems of the community were addressed in a proper manner.
“For some, life will be hard. I want to do many things within a short period. In fact, I am now fighting for time,” he said.
He said he would focus on changing the leadership at the branches first before going to the divisions, state leadership and the Central Working Committee.
“We will become an effective party, with everyone working on the dot, if the changes are put in place,” he said.
Samy Vellu said the party already had RM28mil in the coffers for the construction of a 26-storey building in Damansara Utama which would house its headquarters.
A bridge linking the headquarters with the North-South Expressway would also be built.
“A well-wisher has promised to donate RM10mil,” he said.
In jest, Samy Vellu said the money for the building came from the three million shares which the Opposition alleged he had taken in the 1990s.
Former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and a local Tamil daily had alleged that Samy Vellu grabbed the shares meant for the Indian community.
