{"id":1297,"date":"2008-02-14T18:32:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/14\/samy-vellus-birthday-present-on-march-8\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T18:32:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:32:41","slug":"samy-vellus-birthday-present-on-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/14\/samy-vellus-birthday-present-on-march-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Samy Vellu&#8217;s birthday present on March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will the indian community give SV a birthday present or heap misery on him by giving a trashing in the elections?<\/p>\n<p>And what is this new spin that the party has been negotiating in the last six months into uplifting economic status of the Indians. Shouldn&#8217;t it be the last 3 months, after November 25th?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Samy hoping for double celebration<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/elections2008\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/2\/14\/election2008\/20080214164451&amp;sec=Election2008\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu hopes to have a double celebration on polling day.<\/p>\n<p>On March 8, he hopes to celebrate his 72nd birthday and the victory of his party for retaining all its nine parliamentary and 19 state seats.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that Samy Vellu who has been contesting in Sungai Siput since 1974, would go to the polls on his birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Samy Vellu, who is also the Works Minister, said the party would have a refreshing look with the fielding of new candidates to inject dynamism and provide a new vision in MIC.<\/p>\n<p>He said in the last six months, the party had negotiated with the government to look into uplifting the economic status of the Indian community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are glad that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak have given their commitment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the indian community give SV a birthday present or heap misery on him by giving a trashing in the elections? And what is this new spin that the party has been negotiating in the last six months into uplifting economic status of the Indians. Shouldn&#8217;t it be the last 3 months, after November 25th?<\/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":[130,24,225],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-election-2008","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","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=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}