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Sunday, February 1, 2015

MIC door has shut on Palanivel for good - Vell Paari

MIC door has shut on Palanivel for good - Vell Paari
KUALA LUMPUR - The past couple of months have seen Barisan Nasional’s Indian-based component party MIC making news for all the wrong reasons.
From allegations of electoral fraud, its refusal to comply with the Registrar of Societies’ (RoS) order for a re-election, a hunger strike that put the country’s image at stake, to the recent commotion at its headquarters, many experts have deduced that the party will soon lose the Indian community’s support.
The Rakyat Post sat down with its former strategic director Datuk Seri S. Vell Paari in an exclusive interview to get to the bottom of the MIC fiasco and learn what the party’s next step should be.
Q: What is the root of all the problems faced by MIC?
A: The party has gone through many disagreements in its 68 years of establishment, but this is by far the worst one we have ever encountered and it boils down to one simple reason, that is the president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel.
No matter what we went through before, our past party presidents have always been contactable and actively present in all the discussions the party had in finding solutions for our problems.
Palanivel’s biggest mistake was shutting all of us out and appearing to not care about the party’s future. He let others influence his decision, causing more problems to arise such as his appointment of Datuk G. Kumar Amaan as the party’s secretary-general despite RoS’ clear statement that the position is null and void until a re-election is carried out.
Q: How can this problem be solved and is there any way that Palanivel can redeem himself?
A: MIC is probably the oldest political party in the country, but now we are facing deregistration because the president decided to do everything else except simply complying with the RoS order. The solution now is for the president to let the reelection take place as soon as possible and save the party and its 600,000 members.
However, it is already too late for him to regain the members’ support. We have all seen his incapability of running the party and how his actions of committing election fraud has terribly jeopardised the party’s existence. Instead of dealing with the chaos that his initial action has caused, he acted in a way that further damaged the party just to protect his position.
People can say whatever they want about MIC’s past presidents, but all of them have won their positions fairly.
Moreover, everybody feels like he has let someone else, mainly Senator Barat Maniam be the one giving all the directions and he, too, is the cause of all the problems the party is facing.
Both of them have sunk the community, the party, and BN as well, to a very low depth.
The best thing for Palanivel to do is be amicable and resign from his presidential post as there is no way for him to rectify his position in the party.
Q: Senator Barat Maniam’s name has been linked to Palanivel’s decisions quite a few times lately. What influence does he have over the president?
A: That is the question everyone has been asking. Barat has been sacked from the party three times as he has always been a troublemaker. However, if you look closely at the “Gabungan Anti Samy Vellu” (GAS), there were three main guys who were strongly against Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu and they are V. Mugilan, Barat Maniam and G. Kumar Amaan.
If you look at them today, Palanivel has made Mugilan the Selangor Youth chief, Kumar the secretary-general, and Barat was given the senator’s post for the second term in a row, despite the general agreement that a member can only be a senator for one term.
So everyone has been asking as to what power Barat has over Palanivel, but nobody seems to know. Even in a Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting where questions were asked to the president regarding the election irregularities, Barat answered on his behalf. In the minutes, Datuk S. Saravanan asked the president as to how he can, on the day of the election, add one non-delegate into the electoral vote when that itself can already declare the election null and void.
Q: The public fiasco has probably caused MIC to lose a great share of the Indian community’s support, so say a re-election is conducted, what would be the next step for the party?
A: MIC is the most structured party, we have an incredible infrastructure. I won’t say the party has not been damaged by this fiasco, but it can be rebuilt.
To do this, we have to set some new directions to get the party together and we also need to do a lot of changes within the party itself. The MIC constitution which was written in 1966, if I’m not mistaken, needs to be rewritten. We need to have a constitution that caters to the current generation and this includes giving our members the freedom to talk especially to the press. In a way, this will result in the leaders being more professional in their actions as they would not want to have a negative publicity or image.
We also need to do a rebranding and the first step is getting more fresh faces that come without any baggage. They need to be community orientated and are able to go to the grassroots and engage the community.
Our mindsets need to be altered and we have to realise that we can’t tell the people that “this is what you want”. We must listen to them and allow them to have a say in the way they are being governed. - http://www.therakyatpost.com/

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