{"id":2363,"date":"2008-09-22T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/09\/22\/indians-returning-to-mic\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T15:56:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T07:56:40","slug":"indians-returning-to-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/09\/22\/indians-returning-to-mic\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians returning to MIC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So claims its president<\/a>, Samy Vellu. That is indeed good news for MIC and Samy.<\/p>\n

Samy says that those voters who abandoned MIC during the elections are turning back to the party. “Hundreds of people” are visiting the party offices everyday, knowing that only MIC could help them.<\/p>\n

Quoting some statistics from unknown sources, Samy said that 50% of the community rejected MIC in the last election.<\/p>\n

According to him, the community realised that only a close relationship with th Federal Government through the MIC can improve the community’s livelihood.<\/p>\n

They admit to having been confused and in disarray, that they were influenced into voting for the Opposition but I tell them that it does not matter.<\/p>\n

When asked why they had come back looking for us, their answer was that the MIC has an administration, offices and an experienced leadership, and has continued looking after the people despite having lost in the elections.<\/p>\n

This is the reason why they are still interested in forging a relationship with the MIC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Its good that MIC did not give up hope, and still trying to win over the community. They had to eat the humble pie and move on with times. Yes, the MIC machineries are in place, but need to be fine-tuned or even overhauled to maximize its potential. Its time to look at the community as equal partners, rather than a meekly wife.<\/p>\n

I hope MIC won’t be trapped again in false sense of security, just like in the elections time. They were pretty confident, but ended up in the losing end. The community can make use of all MIC facilities and network, but may very well ditch MIC when it matters most. This is something that needs to be understood. Just like when MIC played out the community at times, the community also can strike down MIC with vengeance.<\/p>\n

By the way, do you really believe what he says?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So claims its president, Samy Vellu. That is indeed good news for MIC and Samy. Samy says that those voters who abandoned MIC during the elections are turning back to the party. “Hundreds of people” are visiting the party offices everyday, knowing that only MIC could help them. Quoting some statistics from unknown sources, Samy […]<\/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":[24,225],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","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=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}