Samy will kill the MIC

Former MIC vice-president Datuk M. Muthupalaniappan, whofailed in his bid to contest the party's top post, claims that in MIC"democracy is dead". He said this was evident as many of his nominationswere disqualified.Muthupalaniappan said his bid for the presidency did not go down well with incumbent Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu from "day one"."He wanted to win unopposed to show MIC's counterparts in the Barisan Nasional that he is still in control of the party and that the members wanta 73-year-old as president," he said. Muthupalaniappan, 66, claimed that branch chairmen who had signed hisnomination forms had been asked to sign another one for Samy Vellu, too,thus making both their nominations null and void."I anticipated this," he said, adding that he had informed the branch chairmen who were nominating him to make statutory declarations as to whothey really wanted to see as president. "But, the election steering committee rejected the declarations.
Muthupalaniappan, who submitted 53 nominations supporting him during theparty presidential nomination at the MIC headquarters this morning, had 48of them disqualified, leaving him with only five valid nominations.A presidential aspirant has to obtain 50 nominations, with each needing oneproposer and five seconders. All of them must be branch chairmen. There are3,700 such chairmen nationwide in the MIC. Muthupalaniappan also claimed that the MIC headquarters only gave him 65nomination forms whereas Samy Vellu had more than 550.