\n<\/table>\n MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the gathering, to be held at the Cheras Badminton Stadium, would be the first in a series of gatherings throughout the country aimed at bolstering the party’s strength and support for the Barisan Nasional (BN) ahead of the ninth general election.<\/p>\n
He said that besides Abdullah, who is also BN chairman, and Deputy Prime Minister and deputy BN chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak would also be invited to the gathering.<\/p>\n
“Similar meetings will be held in all the states in stages,” he said in a statement here today.<\/p>\n
He said the prime minister will also deliver an important address at the Jan 20 gathering. <\/p>\n
“The prime minister is expected to emphasise the importance of staying united in a multi-racial and multi-religious country,” he added.<\/p>\n
He said the gatherings are also aimed at explaining to party members and the Indian community the struggles, achievements and challenges confronting the community to send a loud and clear message to the opposition that the Indian community would always stand solidly behind the BN.<\/p>\n
Samy Vellu said MIC members are united in thwarting attempts by certain quarters to stir up racial and religious issues for their own political agenda.<\/p>\n
He expressed disgust at some opposition parties for using Hindu temples to flare up racial and religious issues.<\/p>\n
“This is a new trend where they get a few Indians to hold political ceramah in temples because they know that people (Hindus) will come for prayers,” he said.<\/p>\n
Samy Vellu urged the Indian community not to be fooled by the opposition.<\/p>\n
“The Indians must think of their future and the country’s well-being and not allow themselves to be hoodwinked by the opposition,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just 3 days before Thaipusam? Hmmm…i hope they serve ample vegetarian dishes \ud83d\ude42 if they can get 15,000 people to attend in the first place. All division leaders + 1000 members from each state should be just about enough. MIC members set to pledge support for Barisan Nasional and PM Abdullah BERNAMA source KUALA LUMPUR, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[131,133,24,225,275,37],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-bn","tag-isa","tag-mic","tag-politicians","tag-temples","tag-thaipusam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}