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Thursday, December 23, 2010

MIC will get you eventually, Pala tells Indians

PALANIVEL ALWAYS GAVE EMPTY PROMISES TO INDIANS, NOT CAPABLE & UNABLE TO PERFORM AND ALWAYS HAD RELIED ON SAMY VELLU FOR SUPPORT AND SURVIVAL OF HIS POLITICAL FUTURE - SO SHOULD INDIANS SUPPORT HIM JUST BECAUSE HE IS NOW MIC PRESIDENT.

MIC WILL FACE ANOTHER WORST DISASTROUS DEFEAT COME THIS 13GE - MAYBE ONLY SECURING 1 OR 2 PARLIAMENT SEATS.

Palanivel warned BN not to neglect the Indian vote again. — file pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23 — Newly appointed president Senator Datuk G. Palanivel is confident MIC could win back the Indian community which abandoned the party to its worst electoral defeat during Election 2008.

“We want to ensure that their heart is with us and BN. It is not a difficult job because they cannot put their hearts elsewhere. This (MIC) is the mother party of the Indians.

“I have no doubt about it that we are the mother party of the Indians. They can leave us and run away to other leadership where the leader is not an Indian. All Indians they will come to us eventually,” Palanivel told reporters after hold his first MIC meeting as party leader.

Palanivel took over the MIC leadership after Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu stepped down and ended his 31 years reign as party president.

Vice-president and Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam, who was absent today, will assume the number two post.

Palanivel was also confident that Barisan Nasional (BN) has regained the trust of the Indians under the leadership of Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

“That (2008 general election) was a different scenario, it was not only Hindraf or anybody but the whole nation went across the board. The scenario has changed with the new prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. We have an amicable PM, a government that is willing to support the community.

“We are getting millions for the development of schools, millions of ringgits for development of temples, and millions of ringgit for Tekun loans.

“2012 will be different. People are coming back to us,” he said.

He also warned BN leaders not to underestimate the role of the Indian community if the ruling coalition wants to regain its two-third parliamentary majority.

“The moment we are able to mobilise voters in localised areas, we will be able to bargain and negotiate because our votes are important. We are a critical minority.

“[2008] was a time when they were telling us that we are not important. They told us that we are small community and the have to carry you.

“Now that has changed, our votes are important. It cannot be taken for granted and I’m going to work very hard to ensure that these votes come back to the BN,” he said.

He added that MIC must be given the resources it needs to help the Indian community and allow it to contribute to BN’s electoral support.

“[O]ur votes are going to play a critical role in the general election and by-elections. If you keep me and my party dis-empowered then we will become a dysfunctional party,” he said.

Palanivel took the opportunity to dismiss the relevance of other rival Indian organisations, including Makkal Sakhti.

“Don’t put MIC with all of them. We are a well structured formed party and a huge network and we can mobilise thousands if we want to. We are too huge, we don’t want to compare ourselves,” he said.

The MIC, he said, has already mobilised efforts to localise its own members and to register one million voters next year. He explained that some MIC members voted in areas other than where they were division members, diluting the combined impact of their votes.

“We want to increase the registration of voters to ensure that we target one million Indian voters. That is the first and most important thing that has to take place,” he added.

He also announced that the party will begin a nation-wide outreach programme to allow for rapid deployment of campaign efforts and to maintain momentum going into the rumoured general election expected to be held early next year.

“We want to mobilise the Indian voters and the MIC members simultaneously and that cannot be done on paper. It is always done during by-elections or general elections so we want this outreach programme to start. That is the most important thing,” he said.

During Election 2008, MIC only managed to retain three from nine parliamentary seats and six from 19 state seats that it contested. Among the casualties were Samy Vellu and Palanivel.

Earlier this year, Palanivel was awarded a senatorship and made deputy minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities after he compromised to allow P. Kamalanathan to stand as Barisan Nasional’s candidate in the Hulu Selangor by-election.

Today, Palanivel dodged question on whether he would run in the 13th general election.

“I want to place my party, my people and my candidates above me. That is all not important issues for me to decide at the moment. I always thought my party, my community and my people are more important than myself.

“I’m quite selfless, not greedy. At the moment that’s not my priority,” he said.

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