UPDATED KUALA KUBU BARU: The upcoming Hulu Selangor by election has already witnessed its first drama, drawing blood from three high-profile figures.
MIC president S Samy Vellu, Umno vice-president Mohd Shafie Apdal and Perak Speaker R Ganesan were trapped in the middle of a large swarm of Barisan Nasional supporters at the nomination centre.
The crowd, which stood elbow-to-elbow, was attempting to push its way through into the centre to support the BN candidate P Kamalanathan.
The incident occurred at about 9.30am when the police only permitted some 100 leaders and supporters from each party to enter the centre.
When the two BN leaders and the speaker arrived, they were caught in the rush, causing them to fall on the barbed wires errected by the security personnel.
The three suffered minor injuries and were treated by medical personnel in an ambulance stationed at the centre.
Samy Vellu was injured in the right knee while Sharie was hurt in the elbow.
Contacted later, an aide to the MIC president said that Samy Vellu was fine and is slated to get a painkiller jab later.
The injury however will not hamper the veteran politician from hitting the campaign trail over the next seven days to ensure that his party's information chief wins the April 25 by-election.
The by-election is being held following the death of incumbent Zainal Abidin Ahmad of PKR, due to brain cancer, on March 25.
Hulu Selangor has 64,500 registered voters of which 799 are postal voters, comprising 34,020 or 52.7 percent Malays, 16,964 (26.3 percent) Chinese and 12,453 (19.3 percent) Indians.
In the 2008 general election, MIC deputy president G Palanivel who was the four-term MP for the constituency lost by 198 votes to Zainal.
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