With powers now fully clenched in his fist, Samy Vellu has already started to exercise his executive powers to “discipline” all those who oppose him. The top line up? Contender for the deputy president’s post Datuk S. Subramaniam.
Iqbal Abd Ghaffar
Election results for the top four MIC post all goes to the President’s men. While 19 out of the 27 CWC candidates endorsed by Samy Vellu were returned
Reformist and change agents within MIC were of no match against the all too powerful Samy Vellu. His dictatorial ways of ruling the MIC has only reaffirmed his position as the ONLY leader for the very divided Malaysian Indian community.
Subramaniam’s defeat for the deputy presidency against incumbent G.Palanivel with a mere 87 votes only suggests that his chances of winning would have been better had the third contender S.Sothinathan not contested. He gained 280 votes.
With powers now fully clenched in his fist, Samy Vellu has already started to exercise his executive powers to “discipline” all those who oppose him. The top line up? Contender for the deputy president’s post Datuk S. Subramaniam.
Its now up to Samy Vellu to decide how slow and painful or quick and clean will death be for the former deputy president of MIC.
MIC has already dug up its own grave. Its demise will slowly come to pass. Respect for the party among its community and in BN is already at an all time low. It has an uphill battle of winning back support from the very people it discriminated, divide, and oppressed.
Any changes and reforms it suggests, are only cosmetic and will be viewed cynically. It’ll be hard to believe in the sincerity of such change since the grand old man of MIC is still at the helm. It is a difficult task indeed.
MIC, God Speed and Rest in Peace.
IAG
Iqbal believes that a large chunk of the delegates threw their votes behind Sothinathan to “play it safe”. Even if Subraminiam did win, he’d be all alone and at logger heads with the Samy Vellu and it’d be a matter of time before he suffers the same fate as former MCA deputy president Chua Soi Lek and former UMNO deputy president Anwar Ibrahim.
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