Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email …but for the wrong reasons. now there’s a row over the president’s post after one group held an AGM. I think ROS has to step in and settle this before this guys make a fool out of themselves and also spoil Hindraf and community name.
The results:
…Vaneson Micheal became the deputy president while Dr M. Thuraichelvan, M. Ganesan and S. Sanjeyiramah were voted in as vice-presidents.
R. Sathiaseelan, S. Krishnan, N. Ramu and C. Sathiavathy were elected as secretary-general, treasurer, Youth chief and Wanita chief respectively.
Kannan said the party decided to hold the elections after 14 of its 27 central committee members quit.
He dismissed claims by sacked president R.S. Thanenthiran that the EGM did not have the mandate of the Registrar of Societies (ROS).
“We notified the ROS three weeks ago. They would have stopped us if we are not supposed to hold the elections,” he said yesterday.
…Kannan claimed that 14 CC members had passed a no-confidence vote against Thanenthiran.
“The reason is that he had tarnished the image of the party by locking the office and giving statements against the party’s objectives and for not being transparent about the accounts of the party’s launch (on Oct 10, 2009),” he said.
He said the other 13 CC members were stripped of their posts for failing to attend three consecutive CC meetings without reason.
Kannan Ramasamy (the previous Secretary General) was elected as the new president on Saturday based on the AGM held:
Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party (MMSP) secretary-general Kannan Ramasamy was elected the new party president today amid disputes over the validity of the Indian party’s AGM.
Kannan, who was party secretary-general till today’s AGM, won the presidency unopposed amid cheers from the 250-odd party delegates.
Kannan’s appointment as the new leader of the troubled party will not sit well with embattled former president R.S. Thanenthiran (picture), who claimed that the AGM was unlawful and had not been given the go-ahead by the Registrar of Societies (RoS).
Thanenthiran had on Thursday claimed to have contacted the RoS who had informed him that it had not “issued any letter or endorsement for the September 25 AGM or EGM.”
He had also said that he would lodge a police report over the AGM.
However, Kannan insisted today that the scheduled AGM was legitimate, saying that he had personally obtained permission from the RoS to go ahead with meeting.
“Is Thanenthiran now speaking on the behalf of RoS? I spoke to the RoS yesterday, they told me to continue with the AGM and EGM according to the party’s by-laws. They (RoS) had said that they would not be making any statements yet regarding today’s AGM. The RoS will only recognise the latest developments after we deliver the reports of today’s AGM to them,” Kannan told reporters today.
He accused Thanenthiran of lying concerning Barisan Nasional (BN) secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor’s attendance at the AGM.
Thanenthiran had said that Tengku Adnan had informed him that he had not received any invitation to the party’s AGM, and would not be attending.
“What Thanenthiran is saying is b******t. Tengku Adnan replied two days ago, saying that he could attend today’s AGM.
“I went to Tengku’s open house in Putrajaya yesterday and had a discussion with him on the party’s situation… Tengku told me he was disappointed with how Thanenthiran had misquoted him,” claimed Kannan.
The newly-minted party president likened Makkal Sakti’s situation to BN component party MCA’s own internal feud between former MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and current president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.
“What we are adopting now is the same resolution taken by MCA during its party crisis… There were two teams in MCA, so they had fresh elections to solve the issue,” said Kannan.
He also accused Thanenthiran of collecting funds under the “guise” of Makkal Sakti but kept all the money to himself.
“Thanenthiran keeps on collecting funds under his name using the banner of Makkal Sakti. We will be lodging a police report against him very soon,” added Kannan.
The MMSP has been rocked by internal conflict since the end of last year — with one faction aligned to Thanenthiran and the other to deputy president A. Vathemurthy expelling each of the leaders and taking their woes to the RoS.
The party was launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak on October 10 last year and is seen as a catalyst to regain declining grassroots Indian support for the ruling coalition.
This is what Thanenthiran said:
Thanenthiran insisted today that he was still the party’s rightful president, refusing to recognise Makkal Sakti’s AGM today which saw Kannan elected unopposed as the new party president.
“As far as the party is concerned, and as far as I am concerned, I am still Makkal Sakti president. I was legally elected while Kannan is a sacked member, I had sacked him so he is not even a member, how can he be president?” said Thanenthiran.
He accused Kannan of being a “power-hungry liar”, saying that today’s AGM showed Kannan’s true motives.
“He is showing that he is hungry for power, having an unlawful AGM to elect him as president… the people who are there are not even party members, they have not even paid their subscription fees.
“My party members know who the real president is, I have informed them and they know that today’s AGM is illegal,” Thanenthiran told The Malaysian Insider.
He said he would go ahead and conduct Makkal Sakti’s “real AGM” on October 10.
“I will go ahead and conduct my AGM, the proper lawful AGM. My members, those who have paid the subscription fees will attend the proper AGM and elect its members in a way that is recognised legitimately.
“He has gone ahead and had his little AGM, the joker, no one will recognise it,” said the embattled “former” president.
…Ironically Thanenthiran alleged that Kannan’s response earlier this afternoon was a blatant lie, and that Thanenthiran had himself met Tengku Adnan last night at the same function.
“I do know what he is saying. I was at Tengku Adnan’s open house last night and he didn’t say that to me. Tengku Adnan should clarify this then,” said Thanenthiran.
