MIC Attack Dogs strike Business Consultant

Monday, April 05, 2010

A prominent Maika holding shareholders crusader, S Nadaraja, was pounded by MIC attack dogs yesterday at a meeting attended by Samy Vellu at Sungai Cho, Rawang.

Two Tamil dailies – Makkal Osai owned by Subramaniam and Tamil Nesan owned by Samy Vellu – provided entirely different version of the incident.

makkal osai

According to Makkal Osai Tamil daily, Nadaraja was savagely attacked when he questioned Samy Vellu on the status Maika Holdings.

“I’m a shareholder of Maika Holdings. The management is cheating the share holders by not having annual general meetings for the last three years. Samy Vellu is the founder and it is most appropriate to question him. That’s what I did”, Nadaraja apparently told Makkal Osai.

“Since 1984, Maika Holdings is in terrible state. They (Maika Management) don’t have the courtesy to explain to the share holders. Is it wrong to ask about my shares? When we ask, they come and whack us”, Nadaraja added.

Maika Holdings was an investment arm of Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) started two decades ago, collecting money from impoverished plantation workers, with the hope of increasing Indian equity in Malaysia but the founder Samy Vellu, President of MIC and his son Vell Paari siphoned the bulk of the wealth and also hijacked lucrative projects offered by the government leaving the poor plantation workers further impoverished.

This was not the first time business consultant Nadaraja having an encounter with Samy Vellu.

Samy Vellu’s mouthpiece Tamil Nesan on the contrary branded Nadaraja as a rabble-rouser who often creates commotions at Maika AGMs.

The daily said, Nadaraja tried to attack their photographer and also used vulgar words that provoked Samy Vellu supporters to respond.

According to a source, former senator Ravichandran led the confrontation. Soon he will be rewarded with some other appointments.

Using violence against Samy Vellu Opponents is not new in MIC.  Many MIC members do that to please Samy Vellu who will not fail to reward them.

Deputy Minister Saravanan, former youth chief Vickneswaran and current youth chief Mohan Thangarasu are in that category.

Only, a week ago, Central Working Committee member K P Samy was confronted by Samy Vellu’s henchman Tharmalingam, former Portklang Authority (LPK) forklift driver, at Klang MIC divisional meeting.

This henchman Tharmalingam is a board member of Portklang Authority.

Meanwhile, sources said, Nadaraja filed a police report.