{"id":282,"date":"2007-05-30T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/05\/30\/post-ijok-mic-issues-show-cause-letter\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T06:30:03","slug":"post-ijok-mic-issues-show-cause-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/05\/30\/post-ijok-mic-issues-show-cause-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"post-Ijok, MIC issues show cause letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>MIC issues show-cause letters to 14 branch chiefs<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/5\/30\/nation\/17873657&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/div>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR: The MIC has issued show-cause letters to 14 branch chairmen from the Kuala Selangor division for voicing their dissent against the Barisan Nasional&#39;s choice of candidate for the Ijok by-election last month.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Party disciplinary committee chairman Tan Sri K.S. Nijhar said the letters were issued following complaints against the branch chairmen.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>He said the chairmen had two weeks to give their explanation.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will call them to explain further if a clarification is needed. If the explanation is unsatisfactory, the committee can expel them from the party.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those aggrieved with the decision can appeal to the party&#39;s central working committee,&#39;&#39; he added.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Nijhar said the MIC did not encourage dissent over a decision made by the Barisan leadership, as it would be based on the recommendations of party president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an embarrassment to the party, leadership and to Barisan when members criticised the party&#8217;s decision. This was also exploited by the opposition during the campaign,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIC issues show-cause letters to 14 branch chiefs &nbsp; source KUALA LUMPUR: The MIC has issued show-cause letters to 14 branch chairmen from the Kuala Selangor division for voicing their dissent against the Barisan Nasional&#39;s choice of candidate for the Ijok by-election last month.&nbsp; Party disciplinary committee chairman Tan Sri K.S. Nijhar said the letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[133,24,278,225,147],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-isa","tag-mic","tag-ngo","tag-politicians","tag-selangor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}