IPF president Puan Sri Jayashree Pandithan said deputy president V. Senggutuan and vice-president M. Mathyalagan had been suspended for three months effective Nov 10.<\/p>\n
Youth chief R. Ravi Shanker, meanwhile, has been ordered to resign from his positions in IPF after it was discovered and confirmed by the Insolvency Department that he had been declared bankrupt.<\/p>\n
Jayashree said at Wisma IPF here yesterday that the party had issued letters to all three notifying them of their positions, which were decided during a party disciplinary committee meeting chaired by deputy president K. Murugiah on Nov 2.<\/p>\n
She said Senggutuan was suspended as he had illegally chaired a supreme council meeting on Oct 12. Show-cause letters were also issued to council members who participated in the meeting.<\/p>\n
Jayashree, who took over the presidency after the death of her husband and former president Tan Sri M.G. Pandithan in May, said she had cancelled the Oct 12 meeting at the last minute as several senior officials including herself were down with food poisoning.<\/p>\n
Mathyalagan was suspended for issuing statements contradictory to the party stance, which Jayashree said were intended to create uncertainty within the party.<\/p>\n
Ravi Shanker, on the other hand, has been given two weeks from Monday to comply with the resignation order, failing which his membership will be revoked automatically, she said.<\/p>\n
“I must stress that these actions are taken as a disciplinary matter to safeguard our party from being misled by irresponsible parties,” Jayashree said.<\/p>\n
On an earlier allegation by Senggutuan that she had used party funds, she said: “I assure you that ever since I took over in May until now, the accounts are in order and they are very transparent.<\/p>\n
“Any problems (in the accounts) happened before I took over and it was Senggutuan who was handling the accounts at the time. So, he should be answerable for it.”<\/p>\n
Jayashree also clarified that Wisma IPF is registered under the party’s name and not hers.<\/p>\n
“We will have a supreme council meeting (on Nov 23) where our legal adviser, Selvam Shanmugam, will give all the details regarding the (status of the) building.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I heard the temporary (?) president Puan Sri Jayashree saying that “I have sent them a letter, they can appeal. They have 14 days..” or something like that. Sounds very much like Samy Vellu especially the “I” part. Deputy and Vice suspended. Youth chief declared bankrupt, so asked to resign. What is happening to IPF? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","tag-ipf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","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=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}