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\nKUALA LUMPUR: The Indian Progressive Front is embroiled in bigger turmoil following the death of its president, Tan Sri M.G. Pandithan, on Wednesday. The party, already split into two – IPF and IPF Bersatu – could be headed for another split with the recent appointment of Pandithan’s wife, Puan Sri P. Jayashree, 55, as acting president.<\/p>\nThe question being asked is, why Jayashree was appointed acting president when there are already two deputy presidents in the party?<\/p>\n
Is it because Pandithan lost faith in his hand-picked deputies or did he see a greater leader in his wife?<\/p>\n
The appointment, however, did not go down well with grassroots. Many felt that the move was to ensure that the allegations of mismanagement of party funds against Pandithan would not resurface after his death.<\/p>\n
“What is the point in having the two deputies (presidents) but in the end not appointing either one of them (president)? Why give it to his wife?” asked a member from Kuala Langat, who only wanted to be known as Samy.<\/p>\n
Another said many were unhappy with Jayashree’s appointment as the Kerala-born woman is of a different caste than most IPF members. Caste politics is a major issue in IPF<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\nFurthermore, some members pointed out that the housewife would not know much about politics.<\/p>\n
Sources claim that there are now three factions within IPF, led by Jayashree, deputy president V. Senggutuan and vice-president M. Maithialagan. “We can already see the bickering and internal fights in the party,” said Samy who has been with the party for 18 years.<\/p>\n
“If Puan Sri wants to talk with us about uniting the party, then I am prepared and willing to do so,” said IPF Bersatu president K. Panjamurti. “We will adopt a give-and-take policy to ensure a win-win situation for all. “I will convince the members of the need for a merger.” Panjamurti said it was not important who would lead the party but positions in the party should be shared by members of both factions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The kuruvi party is fast becoming the mosquito party, and soon will cease to exist. With a splinter party, side-lined deputies, and housewife president, wonder how it will get out of this mess. IPF’s loss will be MIC’s gain, or maybe PKR\/DAP’s too.<\/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-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-ipf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","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=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}