'State MIC leaders should be elected'

GEORGE TOWN: MIC Deputy President Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam is in favour of the proposal for the party's state leaders to be elected."The proposal is a good thing for the party to look at greater democratisation in MIC. "At the moment, all branch, division and national leaders in the MIC are elected. "The only group that is appointed is the state leaders.

"We are thinking on how to have the state leadership be elected. A committee is working on it," he said.

Dr Subramaniam added that the democratisation process could give a greater mandate and bring forward a stronger party.

As MIC deals with internal strife and the Registrar of Societies' (RoS) directive to hold fresh party elections, Subramaniam says the party has to get its act together now or suffer the consequences in the next general election.

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With the Indian-based Barisan Nasional component party weakened since 2008, he said MIC could no longer afford any long-term bickering, feuds or infighting.

The longer the delay to solve issues faced in the party, he said, the greater the damage to MIC.

"As it is, the party has been weakened over the years since (the) 2008 and 2013 (general elections). We are worried that if we do not put our acts together by 2018, we might face a major problem," he said.

He was asked to comment on an incident late last week when former MIC Youth chief Datuk T. Mohan and 500 supporters gathered around the MIC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, carrying banners and playing Tamil songs with "cynical" lyrics under heavy police presence.

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At the gathering, Mohan and several others made speeches, urging party president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel, who was holding a central working committee (CWC) meeting at the time on the party's predicament, to step down should he appeal to the RoS, which had declared the party's CWC invalid.

The group also wanted the party leadership to call off the meeting since the CWC was declared invalid, following complaints by some MIC members about irregularities in the party's election last year.

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