Where are the show cause letters, MIC
MIC leaders who were supposedly slapped with show cause letters claim that they have not received any despite announcements from the disciplinary board
K Pragalath, FMT
Six MIC grassroot leaders who were supposedly issued show cause letters by the party disciplinary board have yet to receive the letters although it has been reported in the media.
“The party disciplinary board chairman (KS Nijhar) said show cause letters have been issued to the six leaders but they claim they have no clue about the letters.
“They only know of the offences they supposedly committed through the newspapers. Is this how the MIC leadership runs the party…they should not make any media statement until after the letters had been sent out. Nijhar goes to the media without even checking if the leaders had received the letters,” a party leader told FMT.
The six are RS Maniam (Kota Rajah division), G Jeyakumar (Gombak division) and M Veloo (Teluk Kemang division), and TH Subra (deputy chairman of Sungai Petani), S Kalimuthu (Tasek Permai Baru branch chairman) and S Ramesh Kumar (an ordinary member from Mersing Kiri branch).
Declining to be named, he also said the latest to be “issued” a show cause letter was Johor state secretary M Asojan, who was hauled up for wanting the party to hold its internal elections immediately not wait until end of the year.
Asojan, when contacted, declined comment on the matter.
However, sources in the party headquarters say no letter had been issued to Asojan although media reports claim that he has been issued a letter asking him why he made the statement on the party elections.
“It is the same with Asojan…he did not know about the letter until he read about it in the newspapers. He has not received any letters.
“This is worse then (former president) Samy Vellu’s era. He sacked people and that’s it. Here we have a leadership which wants to flex its muscles by sending show cause and explanation letters to leaders so that others would shut-up,” said another national leader who did not want to be named.
Although the party leadership, headed by G Palanivel, is going after grassroot leaders, it is still unclear what it would do against former secretary generals and veterans G Vadiveloo and DP Vijandran, who had both asked the party to conduct its internal elections soon or risk deregistration by the Registrar of Societies.
Party sources claim, Palanivel was now training his guns on Vadiveloo.
