{"id":2604,"date":"2008-11-12T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/11\/12\/muthupalaniappan-to-go-for-it\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T02:27:27","slug":"muthupalaniappan-to-go-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/11\/12\/muthupalaniappan-to-go-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Muthupalaniappan to go for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"muthupalaniappan\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.malaysiakini.com\/43\/6a87e2d5e982a0c0876f2980a62c5217.jpg\" alt=\"muthupalaniappan\" width=\"160\" height=\"217\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barely a day after saying he is &#8220;considering&#8221; going for MIC president post, Muthupalaniappan confirms his intention. That&#8217;s a very speedy decision indeed, considering he had to consult with party veterans. He was even advised to announce his decision in two or three weeks time, but I guess things changed overnight.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>&#8220;I am receiving overwhelming support and good words from MIC and the Indian community regarding this,&#8221; he told <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/92839\"><em>Malaysiakini<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Muthupalaniappan, he decided to contest after taking into consideration the interest of the party and the socio-economic condition of the Indian community in this country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I shall and will bring change to MIC and to the community,&#8221; he pledged.<\/p>\n<p>Stressing on the importance of consolidating ranks and bringing the community together, the 68-year-old Seremban-based lawyer said: &#8220;Unity is the key to success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Muthupalaniappan also vowed to re-admit expelled MIC leaders and members as well as to reinstate all the closed branches.<\/p>\n<p>This is the meaning of a re-branding exercise, he said, adding that he would be able to bring the different camps together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also cannot rule out younger leaders in the ranks. They are essential to pull in the younger generation&#8217;s support. &#8220;I would not name any because they might then fall out of favour with Samy Vellu just because I named them&#8230; I do not want to disrupt their chances,&#8221; Muthupalaniappan was quoted as saying in this article.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muthu did not waste his time and already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Wednesday\/National\/2399653\/Article\/index_html\">started his promises<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>He has promised to activate some 1,000 defunct MIC branches and woo back expelled members.<\/li>\n<li>He also promised to settle the Maika Holdings issue, which has been haunting Samy Vellu for years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely a day after saying he is &#8220;considering&#8221; going for MIC president post, Muthupalaniappan confirms his intention. That&#8217;s a very speedy decision indeed, considering he had to consult with party veterans. He was even advised to announce his decision in two or three weeks time, but I guess things changed overnight. &#8220;I am receiving overwhelming [&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":[196,24],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-elections","tag-mic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","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=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}