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MIC division chief threatens to quit – NST version

April 16th, 2007
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MIC division chief threatens to quit
http://www.nst.com.my/NST/Article/vArt?did=20070416074731
BATANG BERJUNTAI: The MIC Kuala Selangor division chief and 33 branch heads aligned to him have threatened to resign following a disagreement over the party’s candidate for the Ijok by-election.
Division leader P. Thirumoorthy, 55, said he was disappointed that party president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu had overlooked him for the seat despite his many years of service in the MIC.
“I have been in the party for more than 30 years and the grassroots want me to contest.
“If I am the candidate, there is no need to campaign. We will surely win as I know the people here,” he said at a press conference.
The MIC candidate for the seat will be officially announced today about 5pm in Ijok. It is understood that the candidate will be 38-year-old K. Parthiban, who is Deputy Education Minister Datuk Noh Omar’s special officer in his Tanjung Karang parliamentary constituency.
Thirumoorthy said he would only resign from his division post but remain as a party member.
“I am a loyal supporter of Samy Vellu and will always work for the party. However, the feelings of the grassroots here are very strong. They never consulted us before deciding on the candidate.”
He wanted the party leadership to reconsider the decision on the candidate.
Samy Vellu, who was at the MIC service centre just 100 metres away, said the choice of the candidate was up to the party president.
“If he wants to leave, he can do so and I don’t feel threatened about this.”
He also refuted Thirumoorthy’s claims of support in many branches, saying he was the division chief only because he had been saved by the party president from the division’s in-fighting.

Former teacher Parthiban, who is single, is currently a co-academic officer at the Kuala Selangor district education department.
He was born in Ladang Raja Musa, Kuala Selangor, and has a Master’s in Education from Universiti Malaya.

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NEWS:Parthiban tipped to contest in Ijok

April 16th, 2007
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Parthiban tipped to contest in Ijok
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/16/nation/17450195&sec=nation
By A. LETCHUMANAN
KUALA LUMPUR: Tanjung Karang MIC division secretary K. Parthiban is tipped to be named the candidate for the Ijok state seat which fell vacant following the death of Datuk K. Sivalingam on April 4.
Sources said Parthiban, 38, who was an officer in the Kuala Selangor education department, had tendered his resignation on Friday.
Though MIC officials refused to confirm this, it is believed that Parthiban was chosen as he was born in the Raja Moosa Estate in Kuala Selangor.
A week ago, during a meeting with Selangor MIC chairman Datuk G. Palanivel, the component parties had indicated that they wanted a local to be the candidate.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohd Khir Toyo is scheduled to announce the Barisan candidate today.
Parthiban, who previously taught in schools in Kuala Selangor and Tanjung Karang, was also the special assistant to Deputy Education Minister Datuk Noh Omar, who is also Tanjung Karang MP.
MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, who met the Kuala Selangor MIC branch leaders late on Saturday, said the person chosen as the candidate would be someone who is able to work with all the Barisan component parties and the people.
He said that the party had nominated two lawyers and a teacher to be considered as the candidate and one of them had been chosen for the seat.
Samy Vellu had said that 23 people had submitted applications to be considered for the seat but the one chosen was not among them

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NEWS:‘You can go,’ Samy tells disgruntled division chief

April 16th, 2007
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‘You can go,’ Samy tells disgruntled division chief
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/16/nation/17451098&sec=nation
By DHARMENDER SINGH
KUALA SELANGOR: Kuala Selangor MIC division chief P. Thirumoorthy, 55, has threatened to resign if he is not chosen to contest the Ijok state seat but his party president feels that Barisan is quite capable of winning without the division chief’s support.
“We (Barisan Nasional) will not suffer because of this ? I have the support of 98% of the branches here.
“They can go. All the people in Ijok will remain with us. I appreciate him for backbiting the party,” sniped MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu when speaking to reporters here yesterday.
He said this was not the first time that Thirumoorthy had acted against the party and he had proof that the division chief had also chosen an independent candidate to fight former Ijok assemblyman Datuk K. Sivalingam during the last elections.
He said he would not meet with Thirumoorthy as he did not wish to “deal with traitors.”
The state seat became vacant after Sivalingam died on April 4.
“He (Thirumoorthy) has been a leader for a long time and he has only managed to tear apart the party. There has been infighting and I want to clean it up with a new candidate,” Samy Vellu said.
“I am happy that before I can sack him, he is already out. I do not want any resignation (letter from him), let him get lost,” he added.
Earlier, at a press conference at the MIC division office here, Thirumoorthy said that he and 33 MIC branch chairmen in his division would resign immediately if a candidate other than himself was announced by Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo today.
He said that 18 of the chairmen were from the Ijok constituency and represented about 2,000 voters.
“I have been with the party for 40 years and supported all the ‘visitors’ who have served as assemblymen.
“It is time that my sacrifices are recognised. It is time to respect the voters’ wish to have a local candidate,” said the schoolteacher.

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Nod for Samy’s choice

April 13th, 2007
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one name submitted and one approved! and it is not the one among 23 who applied! wow…an ace up the sleeve or melodrama?
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Nod for Samy’s choice http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/13/nation/17428973&sec=nation
By A. LETCHUMANAN
SEREMBAN: The Barisan Nasional candidate for the Ijok by-election has already been approved by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said. He said Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, who is state Barisan chairman, would announce the name of the candidate at an appropriate time. “I called the Prime Minister and submitted one name at 4pm. He has approved it,” he told reporters before opening the Negri Sembilan MIC state convention here yesterday. On whether the candidate was a local, Samy Vellu said: “I cannot say anything and there are no further details. “You will all have to wait for the announcement by the Selangor mentri besar.” Asked whether the chosen candidate was a young or veteran politician, Samy Vellu said: “We don’t give to veterans anymore”. He said the person named was not among the 23 candidates who had applied to be considered. “Although 23 had applied, I submitted only one name to the Prime Minister after discussions with Dr Khir Toyo on Tuesday,” he said. Speculations are rife that Selangor MIC Youth chief S. Murugesan, a lawyer, is the likely candidate. Murugesan, 40, contested on his own accord and won one of the two Youth seats in the MIC’s Central Working Committee last year after a fallout with MIC Youth chief S.A. Vigneswaran. The Ijok by-election is being held following the death of state assemblyman Datuk K. Sivalingam in Chennai on April 4. Nominations have been fixed for April 19 with polling scheduled on April 28 if there is a contest.

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NEWS:WhatÂ’s Lina JoyÂ’s status? and more cases revealed

April 11th, 2007
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wonder how many more people have suffered or lost out due the inconsistencies. and how many more people and their families will suffer before we malaysian get to see some justice?
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What’s Lina Joy’s status?
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP national chairman Karpal Singh has called for the Chief Justice to look seriously into the case of Lina Joy, who converted from Islam to Christianity and is seeking to restate her religious status in her identity card.
“The Federal Court should explain why the case of Lina Joy is taking so long,” he told a press conference at the Parliament lobby here yesterday.
Earlier, Bukit Mertajam MP Chong Eng and Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang highlighted two cases similar to Lina Joy’s at the press conference.
Chong said she and 11 other DAP MPs would send a letter to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to look into the case of Siti Fatimah, 29, who had been separated from her 15-month-old baby.
She said Siti Fatimah was an Indian Muslim who was brought up as a Hindu by her grandmother and had never practised the teachings of Islam.
After she married a Hindu man and gave birth to a baby girl, the Malacca Islamic Department ordered Siti to surrender her baby to the department.
Chong said the baby was with the department while Siti had been sent to the Religious Rehabilitation Centre in Ulu Yam, Selangor, by the Syariah Court for 100 days until April 18.
Lim highlighted the case of 81-year-old Tang Siew Ying in Johor. Tang died on Monday but her family was not allowed to take her body from the Segamat Hospital in Johor.
He said the hospital had claimed that Tang’s identity card showed that she had a Muslim name, which was Tang Siew Ying@Azizah Abdullah.

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