KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (Bernama) -- MIC President Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu says the party will pick a local from Bukit Selambau as candidate to contest the state assembly seat if given the opportunity by Barisan Nasional (BN).
"Among the criteria's, we are looking form a candidate who knows the area well, work hard and can speak the Kedah dialect so as to ease the process of interacting with the locals better.
"MIC had contested the seat four times before so it is merely our seat. To us whether the candidate is young or old does not matter but what is important is that voters must like the candidate," he told reporters launching Selangor MIC's voter registration bureau at the MIC headquarters here today.
Speaking of Jerlun Member of Parliament Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir's view that an Umno candidate would stand a better chance of winning the Bukit Selambau seat during the April 7 by-election, Samy said: "He can talk anything he likes, he cannot change national decision."
The Bukit Selambau seat fell vacant after V. Arumugan of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) tendered his resignation on Feb 8.
During the general elections in March last year, Arumugam, 54 who contested as an independent, beat BN candidate S. Krishnan from MIC by a 2,362-vote majority.
Samy said during his recent visit to Bukit Selambau in Kedah and Bukit Gantang in Perak, people were very receptive to BN and MIC compared with what was the case before the last general election.
"They (people) agreed that they had made a mistake by voting for the opposition. The opposition had made many promises but did not deliver and hoped their problems can be settled by BN," he said.
He added that victory should favour BN in both Bukit Selambau and the Bukit Gantang Parliamentary seat that fell vacant after Roslan Sahharum, 50, of Pas, died on Feb 9 due to a heart attack.
About 1,000 from the MIC youth movement had been deployed to Bukit Selambau and another 900 to Bukit Gantang to start organising activities throughout the by-election period.
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