{"id":98,"date":"2007-04-09T19:17:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T11:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/born-in-malaysia\/2007\/04\/09\/samy-says-he-will-not-be-influenced-in-choosing-candidate-for-ijok-seat\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T19:17:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T11:17:58","slug":"samy-says-he-will-not-be-influenced-in-choosing-candidate-for-ijok-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/04\/09\/samy-says-he-will-not-be-influenced-in-choosing-candidate-for-ijok-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Samy says he will not be influenced in choosing candidate for Ijok seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samy says he will not be influenced in choosing candidate for Ijok seat<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/4\/8\/nation\/20070408151711&#038;sec=nation<br \/>\nBy A. LETCHUMANAN<br \/>\nKUALA LUMPUR: I will not be influenced &#8211; that is what MIC president Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu said of the thousands of SMS he has been receiving concerning the candidate for the Ijok state seat.<br \/>\n&#8220;Everyday I have been getting these SMS. They think they can influence me.<br \/>\n&#8220;It won&#8217;t happen. I always make my own decision,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nIn fact, Samy Vellu, who is also the Works Minister, said he had not thought about the potential candidate as the nomination for the by-election has not been fixed.<br \/>\n&#8220;Let them (the newspapers and people) speculate. I will decide when the time comes,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe Ijok seat became vacant following the death of incumbent state assemblyman and state executive councilor Datuk K. Sivalingam in Chennai on April 4.<br \/>\nSamy Vellu said the MIC will field a candidate who is hard working and will be looked up to by the people, especially the Ijok electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samy says he will not be influenced in choosing candidate for Ijok seat http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/4\/8\/nation\/20070408151711&#038;sec=nation By A. LETCHUMANAN KUALA LUMPUR: I will not be influenced &#8211; that is what MIC president Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu said of the thousands of SMS he has been receiving concerning the candidate for the Ijok state seat. &#8220;Everyday I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24,225],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}