source<\/a><\/p>\nKUALA LUMPUR: As MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu chaired a post-election meeting with Selangor division leaders on Sunday, two other division leaders got together and called on him to step down.<\/p>\n
Samy Vellu told the meeting that there was need for a change in strategy and work order so as to strengthen the party and attract younger members.<\/p>\n
He warned those who “revolt without a cause” that they would be dealt with according to the party constitution.<\/p>\n
The meeting with 18 of the 22 division leaders was held at Samy Vellu’s house in Jalan Ipoh.\u00a0 Also present were MIC secretary-general Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam, information chief Datuk M. Saravanan and veteran Tan Sri G. Vadiveloo.<\/p>\n
At the other meeting led by Petaling Jaya Selatan division chairman V. Subramaniam @ Barat Maniam, some 100 members said that Samy Vellu should allow young blood to rejuvenate and rebuild the MIC.\u00a0 “He has to go, otherwise the rejuvenation of the party cannot start,” Barat Maniam said. “The Indians are not angry with the MIC but with Samy Vellu,” he added.<\/p>\n
Other leaders who spoke were Ampang division chairman P. Wilson, former Kapar division leader S. Subramaniam and division leaders from Kuala Langat and Puchong.<\/p>\n
Puchong branch leader S. Murali said that Indians at the grassroots levels were shying away from the party.\u00a0 “This is the reality on the ground that Samy Vellu has to realise and therefore make way gracefully,” he said.<\/p>\n
Other speakers said that the MIC leadership failed to correctly read the sentiments of the Indian community after the Nov 25 Hindraf rally.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Wanita MIC members pledged their support for Samy Vellu’s leadership. Its chief Datin Paduka Komala Krishnamoorthy said after chairing the wing’s national council meeting that Samy Vellu had given women more respect.<\/p>\n
S<\/strong><\/span>he urged the critics who had no confidence in the party and the leadership to leave<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And so it has begun. The MIC members are starting to voice out their dissatisfactions. Selangor leads the way with some of the anti-Samy Vellu members initiating meetings to ask for his resignation.<\/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":[24,225],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","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=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}