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Thursday 5 August 2010

Makkal Sakthi Party rivals keen to close ranks

By B Nantha Kumar

SHAH ALAM: Embattled Malaysia Makkal Sakthi Party (MMSP) central committee members (CCM) recently endorsed a call for unity talks among the two rival factions of the party.

MMSP secretary-general R Kannan said members want peace for the sake of party unity and are keen to see the factions led by founding president RS Thanendiran and suspended deputy president A Vathemurthy sit down for talks.

"The unity talks are very important for the benefit of the party and Malaysian Indians," he said. "As the secretary-general of the party, I've been appointed by central council members to get both sides to the table."

MMSP is facing a leadership crisis with its senior leaders deciding to take over the party from Thanendiran over claims that he was running the party in dictatorial manner.

On Jan 18, 2010, 14 out of 27 CC members of the party, led by deputy president Vathemurthy, voted to revoke the membership of Thanenthiran.

The decision was later declared invalid by the Registrar of Societies (ROS) because proper procedures were not adhered to.

Party image sullied

Meanwhile, according to Kannan, CC members also want action to be taken against Vathemurthy who they claimed was running the party in violation of the constitution.

At a CC meeting last April, Vathemurthy appointed himself president of MMSP and subsequently sacked four CC members who were against him.

Kannan also explained that Vathemurthy confused the party members and the ROS by submitting minutes of meetings without proper endorsement.

"MMSP was officially launched by the Prime Minister. It will not be good if we allow the party's image to be sullied," he said. "I will do whatever I can to unite the factions."

The Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party was founded on May 11, 2009 led by Thanenthiran, a former national coordinator of the Hindu Right Action Force (Hindraf).

1 comment:

Mr.M.N.Anbalgan said...

I the sec gen of Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party Mr.M.N.Anbalgan who have been newly opointed in last ccm meeting would like to inform that kanan ramasamy already have been expled from Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party in reason he was plan to sell the party and Malaysian Indians fate to r.s.thanenthiran who was claim is a traiter by kannan ramasamy last time.i my view he is planning to destroy Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party.It is a prove that kannan is NOT a GENTELMAN and he is acting on his own agenda and it is prove kannan ramasamy have play double game which cost his termination from the party .Very soon we will file a court case agaist r.s thanenthiran, kannan ramasamy and few others.