{"id":623,"date":"2007-10-08T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/10\/08\/what-leaders-say-about-merging-bn-component-parties\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T07:00:33","slug":"what-leaders-say-about-merging-bn-component-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/10\/08\/what-leaders-say-about-merging-bn-component-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"What leaders say about merging BN component parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pak lah&nbsp; &#8211; no need.<\/p>\n<p>Samy Velu &#8211;<br \/>\n &quot;If all parties join together, some of them will become like small <i>kacang <\/i>(nuts)<i> <\/i>in a curry. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>Koh Tsu Koon &#8211; we will be the first to dissolve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/10\/8\/nation\/19108548&amp;sec=nation\"><br \/>\nsource<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>in <b>Kuala Lumpur<\/b>, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said merging BN component parties into one entity would dilute the support and strength of the non-bumiputra parties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> He added that every Barisan component party had to take care of their its own supporters and community, and it would be difficult for parties to state their case to the leadership if they were to be merged.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &quot;If all parties join together, some of them will become like small <i>kacang <\/i>(nuts)<i> <\/i>in a curry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &quot;Once we all join one party, I cannot bring up the problems of the Indians to the Government and the Prime Minister.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> &quot;The majority will rule while the minority&#39;s voice will not be heard. I don&#39;t think such a suggestion should have been made in the first place,&quot; he said after chairing an interactive session with MIC division and branch leaders on preparations for the general election yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pak lah&nbsp; &#8211; no need. Samy Velu &#8211; &quot;If all parties join together, some of them will become like small kacang (nuts) in a curry. &quot; Koh Tsu Koon &#8211; we will be the first to dissolve. source: in Kuala Lumpur, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said merging BN component parties into one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131,133,24,225],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-bn","tag-isa","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","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=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}