This is indeed surprising! Seldom people will joining a losing group. I mean, let’s face it. No matter how we cut it, MIC lost big time. Everyone admits it – MIC leaders, partymen, members, man in the street, opposition fellas, media, political experts and teh tarik seller as well. So, something must be seriously off-tangent if people are eager to join the party. What are the pull factors that attract these young people (definition of young according to Samy \/ MIC ?) or the push factors that cause them to inch towards MIC?<\/p>\n
If its true, then good for MIC. Its rebranding may seem to be working. However, if it is not (and we would be foolish to trust Samy the politicians’s words), hmmm…who bothers anyway? Well, unless this is a ploy to create phantom members, fill up the defunct branches,and proclaim that MIC has the support of the community. Not so difficult to pull off. If many Indians are still members of MIC Teluk Kemang, surely Sothinathan would have lost by a slimmer margin, right? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Which brings us to the point – you can have 5 million members, but it does not guarantee you electoral wins.\u00a0 First, your members must be registered as voters. MIC did mention that about 10% of members only were registered as voters. Secondly, those voters must be convinced to vote for the coalition. People can jump ship as easy as flipping through Astro channel nowadays. Party loyalism has gone down the drain, especially when the party actually doesn’t seem to do much.<\/p>\n
BUTTERWORTH: MIC will revive between 300 and 400 branches nationwide to increase its membership.
\nIts president, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, said new leaders would take over these branches.”The leadership of the closed branches will not be given to the old chairmen as they have not done anything to revive them.<\/p>\n“Our plan is to recruit about 50,000 new members, especially the young, before the end of this year,” he said before opening the state MIC’s 62nd annual delegates convention at Dewan Sree Mariamman here yesterday.<\/p>\n
He said his tour around the country to attend state delegates’ conventions showed more young people were interested in joining the party.\u00a0 Their coming in will give us a new lease of life.”<\/p>\n
With its rebranding, he said, the party would introduce a rating system for branches where programmes carried out by branches and their chairmen would be evaluated to determine whether their performances lived up to the aspirations of the party.<\/p>\n
“We will have several categories under the system: the extraordinary branches, the performing branches, the below average performing branches and the inactive branches.<\/p>\n
“We will determine the parameters and criteria of the system,” he said.<\/p>\n
He added the party would also introduce a people’s satisfaction index to gather feedback from the grassroots on the rebranding exercise.<\/p>\n
He said the rebranding would begin right after the party’s general assembly in Kuala Lumpur on July 12. More than 1,600 delegates will attend the assembly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n