{"id":2449,"date":"2008-10-10T23:29:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/10\/10\/5000-to-quit-mic\/"},"modified":"2008-10-11T00:08:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T16:08:49","slug":"5000-to-quit-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/10\/10\/5000-to-quit-mic\/","title":{"rendered":"5000 to quit MIC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sacked<\/a> MIC Bayan Baru division leader, Nganasegaran seems to be exacting revenge immediately. He claims that up to 5000 (NST says 3000) members from his division among others, will be shifting camps – to PKR. He is expected to handover the membership forms to Anwar Ibrahim at the Bayan Baru PKR service centre.<\/p>\n

According to Malaysiakini<\/a>, Besides MIC Bayan Baru, members from the nearby Bukit Bendera, Jelutong, Bukit Gelugor and Balik Pulau divisions are also expected to close down their branches and join forces with Nganasegaran.<\/p>\n

Nganasegaran was sacked two days ago by Samy Vellu. Malaysiakini sources said Samy Vellu had particularly taken offence with the Bayan Baru division’s endorsement of the Pakatan Rakyat state government\u2019s joint anti-Internal Security Act conference on Sept 14. The sacked leader said it was an unilateral decision and reflective of how MIC works. He condemned the action by Samy Vellu. But Samy said he talked it over with Palanivel before sacking the guy.<\/p>\n

The president had raised the issue at the party national central working committee meeting last week and called on party leaders to support a firm action against Nganasegaran. The meeting then decided to refer the matter to the party disciplinary committee.<\/p>\n

However, before the committee could decide on the issue, Samy Vellu apparently invoked the discretionary power vested in the president under Article 61.2 of the party constitution to expel Nganasegaran, who was once close to the former cabinet minister.<\/p>\n

The sacked leader was given two weeks to appeal against the decision.<\/p>\n

Nganasegaran, who has been the Bayan Baru division chief since 2003, slammed Samy Vellu’s arbitral decision. “It’s like a verdict from a hanging judge in a kangaroo court,” he said.<\/p>\n

He was not issued a show cause letter or suspended but suddenly found himself expelled ‘out of the blue’ from a party that he had loyally served for 18 years.<\/p>\n

“Is this how Samy Vellu is going to re-brand and re-position MIC as a relevant political entity for Indians?” he asked.<\/p>\n

“He can dream on,” said Nganasegaran, who was once an influential political player in Penang MIC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sacked MIC Bayan Baru division leader, Nganasegaran seems to be exacting revenge immediately. He claims that up to 5000 (NST says 3000) members from his division among others, will be shifting camps – to PKR. He is expected to handover the membership forms to Anwar Ibrahim at the Bayan Baru PKR service centre. According […]<\/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-2449","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\/2449","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=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}