{"id":1648,"date":"2008-03-31T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/31\/mic-members-join-pas\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T04:02:10","slug":"mic-members-join-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/31\/mic-members-join-pas\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC members join PAS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something that won&#8217;t even appear in Samy&#8217;s worst nightmare before this, has become a reality!  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>MIC branch dissolved, members become PAS supporters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/3\/30\/nation\/20080330183441&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><br \/>\nBy RASLAN BAHAROM<\/p>\n<p>TAIPING: The Kampung Jebong MIC branch in Simpang here was officially dissolved when 110 of its members <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">quit the party to become members of &#8220;Kelab Penyokong PAS&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> (PAS Supporters Club).<\/p>\n<p>Branch chairman M. Muninathan, accompanied by committee members, submitted their application forms to Bukit Gantang MP Roslan Shaharom at a village temple here on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Roslan said the welfare of the former MIC branch members and members of the Indian community would be taken care of. &#8220;We will take care of you because any problems affecting the Indian community will also affect members of the other communities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roslan said he was indebted to the Indian community here as <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">more than 95% of Indian voters within the Bukit Gantang parliamentary constituency had voted for him<\/span><\/strong> in the recently-concluded general election.<\/p>\n<p>He said members of the community had every reason to rejoice as two of the three state seats in the constituency had been won by Barisan Rakyat, and the victors &#8212; Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu (Changkat Jering) and Tai Sing Ng (Kuala Sepetang) &#8212; had been appointed exco members of the new Perak state government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something that won&#8217;t even appear in Samy&#8217;s worst nightmare before this, has become a reality!<\/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],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","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=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}