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Tuesday 17 December 2013

Palanivel unveils MIC’s new line-up

After the long wait, Palanivel broke silence in naming his new line up

PETALING JAYA: MIC President G.Palanivel today named Prakash Rao Applanaidoo as the new Secretary-General of the party and K R Ramanan as the new Treasurer-General, while former Selangor information chief L Sivasubramaniam will be the party’s new Information Chief.

The party president replaced former sec-gen A Sakthivel and treasure general Jaspal Singh.

The press statement is on MIC Online website.

Palanivel also named the other seven appointed Central Working Committee (CWC) members.

They are election committee member K Kumaran , KS Nijhar, Barat Maniam,Tenggaroh state assemblyman K Ravenkumar, K S Balakrishnan, Raub division chief K Tamil Selvam and Teluk Kemang MIC division chief R Balakrishnan.

Palanivel will continue to head Selangor, while former Perak assembly speaker R Ganeson will continue to head Perak.

Vice President S Balakrishnan Sinniah will be the new Johor chief and the other new Vice President S Sothinathan will head Negeri Sembilan.

Meanwhile M Saravanan will continue to head the Wilayah Persekutuan MIC.

Kedah will be headed by S Ganesan while Penang chief will be M Karupannan; both lawyers.

Pahang will be headed by R Goonasekaren, who is the special officer to the Pahang Menteri Besar.

Malacca’s head is MS Mahadevan and Kelantan, Perlis, Terengganu and Sabah will be continued to be headed by M Kuppusamy, S Vengadasamy, R Suppiah and V Jothi respectively.

Palanivel also said the appointments of state Wanita, Youth, Puteri and Putera leaders will be done later this month.

Palanivel, who is also the Natural Resources and Environmental Minister, wants all CWC members to get to the ground and work hard and not to be complacent with the wins or their appointments.

“All state liaison chairman should work closely with branches, divisions and grassroots members.”
He also said Ramanan as the new treasurer general should immediately work on the ground to bring in financial contribution to the party.

The new line-up announcement came almost after two weeks of MIC’s polls and AGM which were held in Malacca on Nov 30 and Dec 1.

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