{"id":2056,"date":"2008-06-15T23:41:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T15:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/15\/no-merger-with-ipf-says-samy\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T23:41:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T15:41:05","slug":"no-merger-with-ipf-says-samy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/15\/no-merger-with-ipf-says-samy\/","title":{"rendered":"No merger with IPF says Samy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/6\/15\/nation\/20080615200418&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">clarified<\/a> that IPF should not merge with MIC since some of its (IPF) members were not ready, and that the IPF should instead support MIC. He further said that IPF should remain as a political to &#8220;carry out the aspirations and dreams of Pandithan&#8221;. As for IPF&#8217;s ambition to join BN, well I don&#8217;t think so Samy is that charitable! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if IPF can also &#8220;rebrand&#8221; itself like many of the BN coalition members. It has good reasons to do so &#8211; lost its charismatic leader, party is being led by Pandithan&#8217;s widow at the moment, and its in limbo, since its support for BN had not seen any positive effects in the last election.<\/p>\n<p>IPF can take this opportunity to join Pakatan as well. But Pakatan will not accept a raced-based party. They can merge with PKR or DAP. Or dissolve and join Gerakan or PPP if we look at BN.<\/p>\n<p>It depends on the next General Assembly. Will Pandithan&#8217;s wife stand for presidency or make for others? Will there be a split in the party?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samy clarified that IPF should not merge with MIC since some of its (IPF) members were not ready, and that the IPF should instead support MIC. He further said that IPF should remain as a political to &#8220;carry out the aspirations and dreams of Pandithan&#8221;. As for IPF&#8217;s ambition to join BN, well I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/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":[109,225],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-ipf","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","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=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}