{"id":3585,"date":"2009-02-23T23:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2009-02-23T23:48:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T15:48:40","slug":"karpal-shouldnt-waste-time-with-samy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/02\/23\/karpal-shouldnt-waste-time-with-samy\/","title":{"rendered":"Karpal shouldn’t waste time with Samy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think Karpal Singh should not be wasting his time nor energy advising<\/a> Samy Vellu. He’ll be better off worrying about impending court cases or by-elections. No one can beat Samy Vellu. Gerakan fella already got his share, next will be Karpal.<\/p>\n

DAP chairperson Karpal Singh today trained his sights at long-time MIC leader S Samy Vellu, urging the latter not to seek re-election for the party post which he had held since 1979.<\/p>\n

“I would advise Samy Vellu to step down as president of the MIC. He does not have the moral right to even consider standing for re-election as president of the MIC,” Karpal said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Karpal added that Samy Vellu should “repent for the woes brought about by his leadership on the Indian community”.<\/p>\n

He also said that Samy Vellu has no rights to seek the support of the Indian community which he took for granted.<\/p>\n

Karpal, himself a veteran politician, said that the results of the last general election proved how Samy Vellu fared amongst the community.<\/p>\n

“He had boasted that no one could dislodge him as the member of parliament for Sungai Siput.<\/p>\n

“The boast was blasted to smithereens by the voters in Sungai Siput and for good reason,” added Karpal.<\/p>\n

In general election, almost the entire MIC leadership was defeated, leaving just three parliamentarians from the party. As a result Samy Vellu also lost his place in the cabinet.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/span>Karpal added that Samy Velly had failed the Indian community which has been sidelined by the government.<\/p>\n

“He was more interested in the enhancement of his own interests and those of his cronies.”<\/p>\n

Karpal further said that Samy Vellu’s retirement will be one in disgrace, adding that he should have stepped down when the time was up.<\/p>\n

The veteran lawyer, who has long crossed horns with Samy Vellu, also urged MIC members to leave the party to join the DAP or the PKR.<\/p>\n

These two parties, he said, can effectively advance their (the Indian community’s) interests.<\/p>\n

Karpal’s attack on Samy Vellu had come in response to the latter’s recent decision to contest for the top post in the party during the presidential election in April.<\/p>\n

The contests for all other party posts in MIC will be held in September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think Karpal Singh should not be wasting his time nor energy advising Samy Vellu. He’ll be better off worrying about impending court cases or by-elections. No one can beat Samy Vellu. Gerakan fella already got his share, next will be Karpal. DAP chairperson Karpal Singh today trained his sights at long-time MIC leader S […]<\/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":[196,24,225],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-elections","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","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=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}