One faction is led by ailing president Tan Sri M.G. Pandithan and the other by former secretary-general K. Panjamurti.<\/p>\n
Panjamurti, who is the president of the newly-formed IPF Bersatu, said voters need not worry as their support would always be for the BN.\u00a0 We have our own identity as IPF Bersatu and under my leadership, we have state, division and branch leaders. The supporters behind me will campaign for BN. We are going around the country in favour of the government.”
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<\/center>On the split, Panjamurti said it was inevitable as some party members and veterans were unhappy with Pandithan’s leadership and had also complained of mismanagement of party funds.<\/p>\nThe last straw came with talks of dissolving the IPF and the possibility of a merger with the Malaysian Indian Cong-ress (MIC) last year.<\/p>\n
He added that IPF Bersatu was not registered as he feared getting into a legal battle could spoil votes for BN. He said his faction would campaign for BN with former MIC deputy president Datuk S. Subramaniam and People’s Progressive Party president Datuk M. Kayveas.<\/p>\n
IPF deputy president V. Senggutuan, however, brushed aside Panjamurti’s allegations.\u00a0 Who are they? They are nobody to us. All the state, division and branch leaders are with us. We don’t recognise IPF Bersatu,” he said. He added that IPF had been having meetings with Indian voters in Kedah, Penang, Selangor and Perak.<\/p>\n
In response to the recent patch-up between Pandithan and MIC chief Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, Senggutuan said it was just a misunderstanding and not a generation-old feud. The “misunderstanding”arose in 1988 when Pandithan was sacked for holding a hunger strike in front of the MIC headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Proof that Indians can’t be united at the top, I guess. MIC, MIC Baru, IPF, MIUP, and now IPF Bersatu. It’s not enough for those on top to ask the community to be ‘united” all the time. I think its time for the people to voice their dissatisfaction and anger to these so called champions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-ipf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}