T. Mohan, the former MIC youth chief, seen here during a protest against Kuala Lumpur City Hall over a temple demolition, last year. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, December 18, 2014.
The MIC Central Working Committee (CWC)'s meeting at the MIC headquarters saw a commotion today when its former youth chief T. Mohan led some 500 supporters carrying banners and playing loud Tamil songs during a protest calling for party president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel to resign.
The meeting went ahead today amid strong police presence, despite a call by certain party members not to do so and abide by a directive of the Registrar of Societies (ROS) to hold fresh elections for the three posts of vice-president and 23-member CWC.
Palanivel held a meeting with a several CWC members and lawyers to discuss a letter by Mohan and party's strategic director Datuk Seri S. Vellpaari, asking the
leadership to call off the CWC meeting which they said was invalid.
leadership to call off the CWC meeting which they said was invalid.
Mohan had complained about irregularities in last year’s MIC elections, and demanded that the CWC meeting be stopped, following ROS orders on fresh elections.
he had also sent an open letter to party secretary-general A. Prakash Rao and to the ROS, demanding that the CWC meet be stopped.
At the MIC headquarters today, Mohan and a few others took turns to make short speeches, calling on Palanivel to resign from his post as his decision to appeal might further damage the 68-year-old party.
A commotion broke out at the office as members jostled to enter the meeting room, causing some to appeal for calm.
Last Friday, Palanivel, who is also natural resources and environment minister said the meeting, among others, would discuss "some uncertainties" in the ROS letter that was handed to the party secretary-general on December 5.
The ROS had nullified the elections for the three vice-presidents and 23 CWC posts held during the party's general assembly in Malacca last November.
In the December 5 letter, the ROS said they had recommended that the posts be
re-elected within 90 days, following alleged irregularities and breach of the party's constitution and the Societies Act.
re-elected within 90 days, following alleged irregularities and breach of the party's constitution and the Societies Act.
The ROS has advised the MIC not to hold its annual general meeting until the matter was resolved. – Bernama
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