Vell Paari is appointed as MIC treasurer-general

S Vell Paari, son of former MIC president, S Samy Vellu, has been appointed as the new MIC treasurer-general while A Sakthivel stays as party secretary-general.

MIC president Dr S. Subramaniam announced that the appointment of Vell Paari is effective April 1.

Among the new central working committee (CWC) members is T Murugiah, who is a former member of the People's Progressive Party and former deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Department. He joined MIC on Aug 5, 2010.

The others include the son of former MIC deputy president S Subramaniam and Seputeh division chief S Sunther, Kota Raja Division chief RS Maniam, Kelana Jaya division chief SM Muthu, Sepang division chief V Gunalan, Ampang division chief S Kalimuthu and Subang division chief NR Krishnan.

Subramaniam made the announcements after chairing the CWC meeting in Kuala Lumpur today.

"The appointments of all the seven new CWC members are effective immediately," he said.

Subramaniam, who is also health minister, said he made the appointments based on his right as president to appoint nine ordinary CWC members.

Prior to this, two other CWC members, namely former MIC vice-president M Saravanan and former party information chief VS Mogan were appointed by Subramaniam.

He said, with the appointments, the number of CWC members stood at 45 people

Touching on the meeting today, Subramaniam said it discussed the MIC transformation and programmes which would be carried out throughout this year, among others, to turn out at least 2,000 entrepreneurs from the Indian community.

- Bernama