{"id":6888,"date":"2010-09-30T13:55:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2010-09-30T13:55:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:55:54","slug":"samy-vellu-stepping-down-in-january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2010\/09\/30\/samy-vellu-stepping-down-in-january-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Samy Vellu stepping down in January 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/30\/nation\/20100930131714&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>the date is set<\/strong><\/a> for Samy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MIC President Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said Thursday he was stepping down to make way for his deputy Datuk G. Palanivel in January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cToday, I\u2019m officially announcing my decision to step down and pass the leadership to my deputy in January next year,\u201d he told reporters after chairing the party\u2019s Central Working Committee here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that he had announced his decision to the CWC earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Samy is the party&#8217; longest serving president, holding the position since 1979 for 11 consecutive terms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was the Works Minister of Malaysia and the longest serving minister in the Cabinet until he lost his parliamentary seat in the 2008 general elections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the date is set for Samy: MIC President Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said Thursday he was stepping down to make way for his deputy Datuk G. Palanivel in January. \u201cToday, I\u2019m officially announcing my decision to step down and pass the leadership to my deputy in January next year,\u201d he told reporters after [&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":[24,225],"class_list":["post-6888","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\/6888","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=6888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6890,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6888\/revisions\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}