{"id":2454,"date":"2008-10-12T23:35:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/10\/12\/samy-vellu-to-be-last-man-standing\/"},"modified":"2008-10-12T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T15:36:00","slug":"samy-vellu-to-be-last-man-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/10\/12\/samy-vellu-to-be-last-man-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"Samy Vellu to be last man standing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think after the Sarawak CM retires, Samy Vellu will be the only leader from Mahathir era left. While calls are always there asking him to retire, it comes from ex-MIC members or the opposition (well, we can disregard the public’s voice since no one listens to us). After PM Badawi announced his retirement plan, the focus shifts to MIC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Calls for president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu to follow suit are getting
\nlouder, with the latest coming from former vice-president Datuk M.
\nMuthuppalaniappan.<\/p>\n

He said Samy Vellu should not seek re-election when his term expires in March.<\/p>\n

“It may be difficult to give up power after enjoying it for over 30
\nyears. But Samy Vellu should follow the wisdom of other BN leaders who
\nhave announced their desire to retire and pave the way for new leaders
\nto take over,” he said.<\/p>\n

There is also fear that Samy Vellu may pick his own man to take over the leadership.<\/p>\n

“If he thrusts his cronies to the leadership, then Samy Vellu will be
\nthe shadow president and MIC will continue to remain irrelevant,” said
\nMuthuppalaniappan.<\/p>\n

Former central working committee member K.P. Samy said an open and free fight should be allowed for the party’s top posts.<\/p>\n

“It will determine a president of the grassroots’ choice, reflect the
\ncredibility of the elected president and avoid a shadow leadership.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t expect anyone from MIC to say otherwise. Following that lead is T.Mohan:<\/p>\n

However, Samy Vellu loyalists are sticking with their boss in wanting to see him re-elected.


\n<\/p>\n

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Youth chief T. Mohan said the MIC needed Samy Vellu’s guidance to recover after the March 8 polls.<\/p>\n

“He is contributing to the party and is rebuilding it through a re-branding exercise before handing over to the next president.”<\/p>\n

He said that Muthuppalaniappan’s statement was expected as it was widely known that he could not get along with Samy Vellu.<\/p>\n

Mohan said it was unfair to ask Samy Vellu to follow Abdullah’s footsteps as the scenario in Umno was different from the MIC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A leader who manages to oustay all his competitors is really good. Many pretenders came and left, but Samy Vellu is still around. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think after the Sarawak CM retires, Samy Vellu will be the only leader from Mahathir era left. While calls are always there asking him to retire, it comes from ex-MIC members or the opposition (well, we can disregard the public’s voice since no one listens to us). After PM Badawi announced his retirement plan, […]<\/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-2454","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\/2454","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=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}