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MIC’s elected representatives who have reached the ‘fatigue stage’ would be dropped and replaced by new faces in the coming general election, said the party’s president S Samy Vellu today.<\/p>\n
"Looking at the situation, I am going to do many changes. This is sure to happen," he said when interviewed in RTM's Tamil talkshow "Karuthu Kalam" or "Opinion Forum" aired over RTM2 today.<\/p>\n
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Samy spoke about wide-ranging issues from when he entered politics and the challenges being faced by the party and the Indian community.<\/p>\n
"Normally, I introduce new faces in elections and I assign them special tasks.<\/p>\n
"Since I work long hours, I can't be monitoring them all the time. That will affect my job," he said.<\/p>\n
He said he could tell them about their responsibilities during the MIC's monthly central working committee (CWC) meetings.<\/p>\n
"Few are clear about their duties and carry out their responsibilities accordingly (but) some have reached the fatigue stage," he said.<\/p>\n
At present MIC has nine members of Parliament and 19 state representatives.<\/p>\n
Many would see the proposal to introduce new faces by the party in the coming general election as a way by Samy to recapture the trust of the Indian community.<\/p>\n
The Indian community has been quite critical in the recent past over what is seen as the party’s and its leaders’ failures to uplift the community. <\/p>\n
We have benefited<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n Samy also said that he entered politics in 1957 "with a view to change the condition of the Indian community".<\/p>\n "That was one of the main reasons for me to join politics. It was permanently in my mind. I kept thinking for ways and means to create a better situation to upgrade the condition of the community.<\/p>\n "When I became president of MIC in 1979, I realised that only by transforming the community into an educated community, we would be able to compete and be on par with others," he said.<\/p>\n He also said that he has not stopped fighting for the community in his 29 years of service as a minister. He is presently the works minister.<\/p>\n "I have talked everything. I can tell one thing to those who ask on what I've done. I can't reveal what I've talked, what I've fought in the cabinet.<\/p>\n "We have taken an oath of secrecy and we should not reveal anything that have been decided in the cabinet because those government documents are classified as official secrets," he said.<\/p>\n To a question, the MIC chief said not all the requests made by the MIC were put aside by the government.<\/p>\n "During the 29 years, when we request for 20, we get 10. So we have always benefited. We can't say we didn't get anything. <\/p>\n “I have records on what we have got. I know how the government has been channelling the assistance," he added.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samy uses the OSA to cover up. I also heard in the news tonight that 76 schools have been renovated 180+ schools out 522 were fully aided. Samy promises new faces for GEhttp:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/76339 RK Anand | Dec 22, 07 6:54pm MIC’s elected representatives who have reached the ‘fatigue stage’ would be dropped and replaced by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,225],"class_list":["post-932","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\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}