MIC President Dato’ Seri S Samy Vellu must ensure the victory of BN’s candidate for P094 Hulu Selangor by election on 25 April. This is because despite UMNO’s pressure to field their candidate in a Malay majority constituency, it was summarily turned down by PM Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak, announced last week.
Three names are being speculated for BN’s candidacy. MIC Deputy President Dato’ G Palanivel, who is Samy’s personal choice and currently the most talked about. Palanivel served as the MP for four terms, before being defeated by PKR Dato Dr Zainal Abidin Ahmad at the last General Elections by a slim majority of 198 votes..
The other is MIC Youth Vice Head V. Mugilan, an Hulu Selangor native. He also Hulu Selangor MIC Youth Head.
The other is MIC Information Chief P. Kamalanthan, who hails from Rawang. He is the most popular amongst the locals, even within Malay communities. Kamalanathan is also a blogger and was a former educator. He is currently serving one of the subsidiary under Bernas Group and a PR and Corporate Communications Manager.
Our bet here in BigDogDotCom goes to Kamalanathan.
This is a huge challenge for Samy and MIC. The failure on 25 April means that MIC lost twice consecutively in a constituency once regarded as a ‘safe haven’, because of the Malay ‘ fixed deposit’.
MIC must be seen as losing their ‘political currency’ with this defeat, if it happens.. Samy’s thirty-over-years-near-dictatorial Presidency has already been plagued with huge resistance from the Indian community and personally has been regarded as ‘ failed to deliver’, despite having the luxury of being the third most senior partner in BN. The dismay of the Indians have been clearly demonstrated in the HINDRAF demonstration-turned-ugly in late 2007 and the inception of Makkal Sakhti as a political party.
Many already deduced that once ‘safe haven’ constituency like P094 Hulu Selangor lost to the Oppositions is due the Malays now can no longer be influenced by UMNO to support MIC, which opinion also include Supremo-bloggo-journo Dato’ A Kadir Jasin’s. The series of scandals which include MAIKA Holdings fiasco and inability for Samy to ‘pacify’ the majority Indians into the mainstream dynamism of development and progress have resulted into chronic poverty related social issues. One of the outcome is the ill feeling harboured and as a minority, coming out blaming the majority for their massive misfortunes has been thought to be the factor of the lost of ‘camaraderie’ by even UMNO grass root. For the record, Samy himself lost his traditional seat of Sungai Siput in 8 March 2008 12th General Election, also considered a ‘safe haven’ due to the Malay majority ‘fixed deposit’.
The relationship of MIC as a component of BN of which had been always benefitted from the grace of UMNO canvassing for Malay majority support which has already managed to put countless number of Indian ethnic politicians into position of power, had been preicarious lately. We here at BigDogDotCom had demanded Samy Vellu’s resignation and MIC being sacked from BN for the ‘kurang ajar’ness of their own leaders, in official party fuunction.
Regardless, Samy’s poor leadership already cost DUN Bukit Selambau lost to the Oppositions, twice within a span of slightly over a year. He should have resigned or ‘be made to resign’, a year ago. This should be an ‘ultimatum’ for Samy: Shape up or ship out!.
PM Najib must have the guts to tell off Samy to get lost yesterday,not today or tomorrow.My bet is if Samy goes BN will win with a bigger majority.
Harapan untuk BN (bukan MIC) menang di Hulu Selangor ada walaupun tipis jika calon bukan Melayu diletakkan di sana. Pengundi Melayu tetap berpersepsi UMNO tunduk dan takut !!!
Jika kalah, pengundi Melayu akan dipersalahkan secara terang terangan oleh MIC dan MCA dan UMNO akan dituduh sudah tidak diterima oleh orang Melayu sendiri. Jila meletakkan calon MIC sebagai ‘game’ untuk Samy, sebenarnya game itu sendiri yang mengenakan UMNO dan Najib.
Orang Melayu tidak perduli siapa jadi Presiden MIC atau MCA, itu hal rumahtangga mereka, orang Melayu lebih cenderung untuk melihat siapa terajui UMNO selepas Paklah.. lebih selekeh atau lebih gagah. Gagah pada slogan atau perkasa pada tindakan.. Kalau Hisham di ambil contoh sebagai pemimpin Melayu UMNO… jelas UMNO masih parah, takut, tunduk dan lemah.
Bukan Samy yang patut letak jawatan tetapi Najib yang patut berundur.
BigDog,
So What happens when BN Wins?
Does this mean that as a reward, Samy Should stay on as President MIC for Life?
You cannot Imagine how Loud his trumpet will be if MIC Wins!!
Not to mention the Demands he will make on DS Najib….
Big Dog,
You admitted that MIC and Samy Vellu were involved in the MAIKA scandal.
How come BN continues to tolerate leaders who have cheated the rakyat of many millions so clearly?
How come BN is so fast to send the MACC to catch and interrogate Teoh Beng Hock over an alleged few hundred to one thousand ringgit, which turned out to be untrue?
This is the reason why BN must be defeated, not only in Hulu Selangor, but at the Federal level.
Bila UMNO kalah dan menjadi pembangkang bukan saja di tahap negeri tapi di tahap nasional, masa itu saja lah UMNO-BN boleh berubah.
Selagi UMNO tidak kalah, ianya tidak akan dan tidak mampu berubah walau seribu tahun.
Sebab sistemnya dah terlalu bergantung pada korupsi dan kronisma.
Sekian.
Samy Vellu dah leteh after the big loss MIC suffered during the GE12. You can see his face and demeanour….very different from the one time man who exudes and was always oozing with confidence everytime he opened his big mouth. I don’t think BN should kick him out but MIC should take the pleasure to do so!