{"id":6870,"date":"2010-09-26T20:43:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T12:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2010-09-26T20:43:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T12:43:54","slug":"mmsp-still-making-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2010\/09\/26\/mmsp-still-making-news\/","title":{"rendered":"MMSP still making news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but for the wrong reasons. now there&#8217;s a row over the president&#8217;s post after one group held an AGM. \u00a0I think ROS has to step in and settle this before this guys make a fool out of themselves and also spoil Hindraf and community name.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/26\/nation\/7106090&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">results:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;Vaneson Micheal became the deputy president while Dr M. Thuraichelvan, M. Ganesan and S. Sanjeyiramah were voted in as vice-presidents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">R. Sathiaseelan, S. Krishnan, N. Ramu and C. Sathiavathy were elected as secretary-general, treasurer, Youth chief and Wanita chief respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kannan said the party decided to hold the elections after 14 of its 27 central committee members quit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He dismissed claims by sacked president R.S. Thanenthiran that the EGM did not have the mandate of the Registrar of Societies (ROS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe notified the ROS three weeks ago. They would have stopped us if we are not supposed to hold the elections,\u201d he said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;Kannan claimed that 14 CC members had passed a no-confidence vote against Thanenthiran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe reason is that he had tarnished the image of the party by locking the office and giving statements against the party\u2019s objectives and for not being transparent about the accounts of the party\u2019s launch (on Oct 10, 2009),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the other 13 CC members were stripped of their posts for failing to attend three consecutive CC meetings without reason.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kannan Ramasamy (the previous Secretary General) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/makkal-sakti-gets-new-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">was \u00a0elected as the new president<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday based on the AGM held:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party (MMSP) secretary-general Kannan Ramasamy was elected the new party president today amid disputes over the validity of the Indian party\u2019s AGM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kannan, who was party secretary-general till today\u2019s AGM, won the presidency unopposed amid cheers from the 250-odd party delegates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kannan\u2019s appointment as the new leader of the troubled party will not sit well with embattled former president R.S. Thanenthiran<strong> (picture)<\/strong>, who claimed that the AGM was unlawful and had not been given the go-ahead by the Registrar of Societies (RoS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanenthiran had on Thursday claimed to have contacted the RoS who had informed him that it had not \u201cissued any letter or endorsement for the September 25 AGM or EGM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had also said that he would lodge a police report over the AGM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Kannan insisted today that the scheduled AGM was legitimate, saying that he had personally obtained permission from the RoS to go ahead with meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIs Thanenthiran now speaking on the behalf of RoS? I spoke to the RoS yesterday, they told me to continue with the AGM and EGM according to the party\u2019s by-laws. They (RoS) had said that they would not be making any statements yet regarding today\u2019s AGM. The RoS will only recognise the latest developments after we deliver the reports of today\u2019s AGM to them,\u201d Kannan told reporters today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He accused Thanenthiran of lying concerning Barisan Nasional (BN) secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor\u2019s attendance at the AGM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanenthiran had said that Tengku Adnan had informed him that he had not received any invitation to the party\u2019s AGM, and would not be attending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat Thanenthiran is saying is b******t. Tengku Adnan replied two days ago, saying that he could attend today\u2019s AGM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI went to Tengku\u2019s open house in Putrajaya yesterday and had a discussion with him on the party\u2019s situation&#8230; Tengku told me he was disappointed with how Thanenthiran had misquoted him,\u201d claimed Kannan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newly-minted party president likened Makkal Sakti\u2019s situation to BN component party MCA\u2019s own internal feud between former MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and current president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat we are adopting now is the same resolution taken by MCA during its party crisis&#8230; There were two teams in MCA, so they had fresh elections to solve the issue,\u201d said Kannan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also accused Thanenthiran of collecting funds under the \u201cguise\u201d of Makkal Sakti but kept all the money to himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThanenthiran keeps on collecting funds under his name using the banner of Makkal Sakti. We will be lodging a police report against him very soon,\u201d added Kannan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MMSP has been rocked by internal conflict since the end of last year \u2014 with one faction aligned to Thanenthiran and the other to deputy president A. Vathemurthy expelling each of the leaders and taking their woes to the RoS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party was launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak on October 10 last year and is seen as a catalyst to regain declining grassroots Indian support for the ruling coalition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what Thanenthiran <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/thanenthiran-i-am-still-makkal-sakti-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanenthiran insisted today that he was still the party\u2019s rightful president, refusing to recognise Makkal Sakti\u2019s AGM today which saw Kannan elected unopposed as the new party president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs far as the party is concerned, and as far as I am concerned, I am still Makkal Sakti president. I was legally elected while Kannan is a sacked member, I had sacked him so he is not even a member, how can he be president?\u201d said Thanenthiran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He accused Kannan of being a \u201cpower-hungry liar\u201d, saying that today\u2019s AGM showed Kannan\u2019s true motives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe is showing that he is hungry for power, having an unlawful AGM to elect him as president\u2026 the people who are there are not even party members, they have not even paid their subscription fees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy party members know who the real president is, I have informed them and they know that today\u2019s AGM is illegal,\u201d Thanenthiran told\u00a0<em>The Malaysian Insider.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he would go ahead and conduct Makkal Sakti\u2019s \u201creal AGM\u201d on October 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI will go ahead and conduct my AGM, the proper lawful AGM. My members, those who have paid the subscription fees will attend the proper AGM and elect its members in a way that is recognised legitimately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe has gone ahead and had his little AGM, the joker, no one will recognise it,\u201d said the embattled \u201cformer\u201d president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;Ironically Thanenthiran alleged that Kannan\u2019s response earlier this afternoon was a blatant lie, and that Thanenthiran had himself met Tengku Adnan last night at the same function.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI do know what he is saying. I was at Tengku Adnan\u2019s open house last night and he didn\u2019t say that to me. Tengku Adnan should clarify this then,\u201d said Thanenthiran.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but for the wrong reasons. now there&#8217;s a row over the president&#8217;s post after one group held an AGM. \u00a0I think ROS has to step in and settle this before this guys make a fool out of themselves and also spoil Hindraf and community name. The results: &#8230;Vaneson Micheal became the deputy president while Dr [&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":[196,231],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-elections","tag-mmsp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","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=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6871,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}