MIC’s confidence is sky high! Would this be chance to demand for extra seats in coming election? Or MIC going to ask for more goodies for Indians?
\n– Most Indians voted for BN
\n– Malays supported BN due to promises by MB to personally look into their problems. In other words, the Malays still want their own people there in the form of a proxy for MB. Cikgu Parthiban not enough. Also, strong campaign by UMNO and the development projects in IJOK swayed the votes.
\n– Chinese voters are the trump cards. they seem to know what the Indians and Malays votes would be and they voted accordingly. Forcing MCA to be more vigilant. All this “discussion behind closed doors” story doesn’t seem to placate the Chinese voters.<\/p>\n
MIC to go all out to register voters
\nhttp:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/5\/3\/nation\/17612431&sec=nation
\nKUALA LUMPUR: The MIC will conduct a massive voter registration exercise, its president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.
\nHe said a national committee, to be headed by one of the party’s three vice-presidents, would be set up to spearhead the campaign.
\n“We want every eligible Indian to be registered as a voter to face the next general election,” Samy Vellu said.
\nHe said that in the Ijok by-election, it was found that many Indians had not registered as voters.
\n“The Indian votes are very crucial for Barisan Nasional, as evident from the Ijok by-election,” he said in reference to the polls on April 28, which saw Barisan’s K. Parthiban beating Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim of Parti Keadilan Rakyat by a 1,850-vote majority.
\nSamy Vellu, who said that almost 80% of the registered Indian voters in Ijok had cast their votes for Parthiban, added that the more than 4,000 MIC branches had been given a month to submit to the party headquarters the list of eligible but unregistered voters.
\n“The MIC headquarters will then assist the Election Commission to register them,” he said, adding that he had asked all branch heads to make house-to-house visits to identify the new voters.
\nIn some cases, he said, a single house would have as many as four or five unregistered voters.
\nSamy Vellu also said the MIC branches had been told to identify voters who had changed their house addresses so that they could be traced during an election. \u2013 Bernama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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