{"id":4311,"date":"2009-04-11T14:52:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T06:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2009-04-12T22:54:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T14:54:34","slug":"mic-to-pull-out-of-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/04\/11\/mic-to-pull-out-of-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC to pull out of Cabinet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE 12\/4: As expected, there’s a slew of denial issued by Palanivel in Malaysiakini<\/a>, Saravanan and Dr S Subra (NST<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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“We have not heard about such a move. Whatever decision on any matter concerning the party has always been discussed with the party president in the central working committee.<\/p>\n

“If there are any differences within the Barisan Nasional, they will be discussed behind closed doors and resolved amicably.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I was quite surprised with the title of Malaysiakini article – “MIC mulls pulling out of new cabinet<\/a>“. MIC is not the type to rock the boat, and the info revealed came from a “party insider”, meaning we can expect Samy or other top honchos to issue denial tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The reason for MIC’s anger is the treatment given to it by Najib. Not being allocated a more powerful ministry (Works Ministry is seen as more powerful than Human Resources) is seen as an insult to the Indian community. MIC have appealed many times to get back Works Ministry, but nothing materialised. So, MIC wants bigger posts, and using community name to gain it.\u00a0 For them, the status of Human Resource Ministry does not reflect the position of Indians as the third largest community (err..aren’t the Indonesians more than us?)<\/p>\n

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“The decision is expected to be made soon, perhaps at the next MIC central working committee meeting later this month,” he said.<\/p>\n

The party insider said topping the list of grouses is the fact that the Indians were still being ‘treated as second or even third class’ citizens in the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

MIC claims to slowly getting back the support of the community as seen in the two Bukit by-elections, so the lack of reward\/incentive in the new line-up is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

MIC also find it hard to accept that parties that claim to represent communities which did not vote for BN most of the time is given more positions (MCA – 4 ministers and 7 deputy, Gerakan – 1 minister and 2 deputy).\u00a0 Well, grow up la…that’s politics. The new government need to please the Chinese a bit so that can boost the economy. Indians, apa ada? duit tadak, bising banyak., semua mau mintak kerajaan. And, the other parties have changed leadership, so got some new faces. MIC apa ada? Same old faces only. I think the main problem is that the leader has not changed. So, this may be a snub to Samy rather than punishing the community.<\/p>\n

When contacted, Samy Vellu declined to comment on the matter but those close to the veteran politician conceded that he was very unhappy with the current situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, what to do, nasi dah nak jadi bubur. If MIC pull out now, then it can be more “independent” says the party insider. But it will be toothless tiger. No one will entertain them anymore. Good opening for PPP’s Murugiah to step in and take lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE 12\/4: As expected, there’s a slew of denial issued by Palanivel in Malaysiakini, Saravanan and Dr S Subra (NST). “We have not heard about such a move. Whatever decision on any matter concerning the party has always been discussed with the party president in the central working committee. “If there are any differences within […]<\/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":[24,225],"class_list":["post-4311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","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=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}