Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email The news below doesn’t put the HR Minister in a good light. Wonder if Malay Mail and MIC having some problem between them. Why did the complainant go to Malay Mail office?
Obviously the president is the leader of the party, not the secretary-general. And this isn’t any ordinary president, its someone who has ruled for decades.
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A LONG-time supporter of MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has hit out at the party leadership for what he describes as “demeaning” treatment accorded to the sole MIC representative in the Cabinet.
K.S. Chandran, former MIC Hulu Selangor division chairman, said although Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam, the Human Resources Minister, was party secretary-general, the MIC leadership was not giving him the due respect he deserved.
“At almost every State MIC function the minister is sidelined and not given the limelight by the party leadership,” Chandran, who is the current Bandar Utama Batang Kali branch chairman, said.
“Whenever the party president is present at any function, he hogs the limelight and the minister has to take the cue from the president to either speak or do anything,” said Chandran, who has sent a memorandum to that effect to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
“When I see the minister being given the back seat, I feel very hurt because he is our only full minister in the Cabinet and the party leadership ought to treat him with more respect, not just suck up to the president.”
At the recent Selangor State MIC delegates convention, he said, the State liaison congress committees gave Subramaniam a very poor reception.
“They did not even garland him. The president, whenever he is present, treats the minister like a schoolboy who can only open his mouth when called upon by the president to answer questions from the floor or delegates.”
Chandran, who came to Malay Mail office with several members from his branch, said he had received feedback from many Indians, both inside and outside the party, expressing their disappointment at seeing Dr Subramaniam being treated like an ordinary member.
