PUTRAJAYA, Sept 15 (Bernama) -- Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin wants MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu to take action against the MIC delegate who had suggested placing a 'garland of slippers' on the portrait of former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
He said this was because the suggestion was considered to be disrespectful to the leader, and 'the faster action is taken, the better'.
"This is because we don't want relations between us (Umno) and the BN (Barisan Nasional) component parties to be strained.
"It is important at this stage that we strengthen solidarity, how we can strengthen further the Barisan Nasional and help each other. And if there is such a view, the party concerned must act to avoid tension," Muhyiddin said after chairing a meeting between the Higher Education Ministry and the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) on the direction of the religious stream, here on Tuesday.
He said this when asked to comment on the suggestion made by a delegate at the MIC general assembly following the statement by the former prime minister which was claimed to be interfering in the internal affairs of the MIC.
Muhyiddin said the suggestion was certainly rude and disrespectful to the leader.
Asked on Samy Vellu's statement that the Indians were upset with the BN and not him, Muhyiddin said: "I don't think that is quiet correct, but of course he has his own right to speak the way he spoke."
"You say that it is not a rejection of the MIC but a rejection of the BN. The MIC is very much of component of the BN, and the BN is a bigger party comprising all the component parties."
Muhyiddin said the fact was that there were indications that many Malaysians, including the Indian community, had expressed their observation that there were weaknesses within the MIC.
"I'm not going to go into detail on this. What is important at this moment, as was mentioned by (Prime Minister) Datuk Seri Najib (Tun Razak) when he officiated the MIC delegates conference is for the party to regain the lost ground, the loss of confidence and trust," he said.
-- BERNAMA
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