{"id":5464,"date":"2009-08-23T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T16:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2009-08-25T17:29:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T09:29:25","slug":"stage-is-set-for-mic-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/08\/23\/stage-is-set-for-mic-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"stage is set for MIC elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MIC elections nomination<a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/111175\" target=\"_blank\"> took place<\/a> on Saturday. As predicted, there&#8217;s a three corner fight for the Deputy President post in MIC. Incumbent Palanivel will be challenged by ex-Deputy Dato Subra and Sothinathan. Expect Palanivel to win due to Samy Vellu&#8217;s campaigning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And, there&#8217;s still another election battle in 2012, when Samy Vellu actually retires (or so he says). So, the loser here still have a chance then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Vice President posts sees 8 candidates vying for 3 positions. The president&#8217;s men are the three parliamentarians &#8211; Dr S. Subra, Saravanan, and SK Devamany. The &#8220;independents&#8221; are\u00a0 Also in the contest are businessman and former Federal Territory MIC chief VKK Teagarajan, former central working committee (CWC) member KP Samy, Jelebu division leader P Mariayee who is the sole woman candidate for the post, businessman and CWC member S Balakrishnan (Johor MIC Treasure\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">ex-Johor MIC chief<\/span>) and Kelana Jaya division vice-chairman P Subramaniam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Again, the president&#8217;s men are expected to win comfortably, again raising questions on the credibility of the winners late. There will be a stigma on the winners &#8211; winning because of approval from president. They can&#8217;t help it if people wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIC elections nomination took place on Saturday. As predicted, there&#8217;s a three corner fight for the Deputy President post in MIC. Incumbent Palanivel will be challenged by ex-Deputy Dato Subra and Sothinathan. Expect Palanivel to win due to Samy Vellu&#8217;s campaigning. And, there&#8217;s still another election battle in 2012, when Samy Vellu actually retires (or [&hellip;]<\/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],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-elections","tag-mic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","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=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5466,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}