{"id":4061,"date":"2009-03-19T00:41:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2009-03-19T00:41:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T16:41:47","slug":"muthu-qualifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/03\/19\/muthu-qualifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Muthu qualifies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been busy with post-SPM\/STPM activities updates, so apologies for not updating the blog. Let’s see what happened the last few days. One story that caught my eye was the statement by MIC’s presidential hopeful Muthupalaniappan. He was complaining of all kinds of campaigns or irregularities happening at branch level such as:<\/p>\n

– branch chairmen being intimidated not to nominate him<\/p>\n

– nomination forms came preprinted with the incumbent’s name<\/p>\n

– lack of forms for him to distribute easily<\/p>\n

Well, imagine our surprise when despite all the hurdles Muthu claims, he managed to get the minimum 50 nominations! In fact, he says 51 is in the bag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old challenger said: “I’m happy to say I have 51 nominations.<\/p>\n

“Many branches nationwide, wishing for a leadership change, have invited me to visit them and collect their nominations.”<\/p>\n

Saying he did not have enough nomination forms to distribute to all branches, Muthupalaniappan added: “I need to supply new forms as most of those sent to the branches have Samy Vellu’s name printed on them.”<\/p>\n

Muthupaniappan, however, refused to reveal the source of his nominations saying the branches feared repercussions.<\/p>\n

He said he would collect the remaining nominations, in time to file them with the presidential election committee for its approval on Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, one can only wish him all the best. Hopefully he is able to collect and submit the forms in time, and the forms are not rendered invalid due to various technical reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Been busy with post-SPM\/STPM activities updates, so apologies for not updating the blog. Let’s see what happened the last few days. One story that caught my eye was the statement by MIC’s presidential hopeful Muthupalaniappan. He was complaining of all kinds of campaigns or irregularities happening at branch level such as: – branch chairmen being […]<\/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":[117,112,196,24],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-discrimination","tag-elections","tag-mic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","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=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}