KUALA LUMPUR: Former deputy MIC Youth chief V Mugilan, who was sacked from the party for being “disloyal”, today slammed MIC leaders for, first, linking Umno and now MCA to his Gerakan Anti-SamyVellu (GAS) movement.
“It is stupid to point fingers and blame others for decisions that GAS takes.
“Dragging first Umno and now MCA into GAS public rally simply shows that Samy Vellu's group is under a lot of pressure,” said Mugilan referring to a weekend FMT report which said MIC was angry with MCA-owned The Star publications for playing up stories on Mugilan and GAS.
The report, quoting a top-level MIC source, said the party would urge the Indian community to boycott The Star.
Said Mugilan: “Once before they claimed Umno helped us [GAS]. Now they are saying MCA is on our side… tomorrow they may even claim that Tok Guru (PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat) is behind us.
“These people are totally mad. Do they even know what they are saying?
“Tamil Nesan has a 10,000 daily circulation whereas Star has 400,000. It is a huge difference.
“It won’t cause even the slightest dent if Samy Vellu’s group of people stop reading The Star newspaper.”
Mugilan threatens to sue Tamil Nesan
On another matter, Mugilan is planning to sue Tamil language daily, Tamil Nesan, over a front-page notice which alleged that he was anti-MIC.
Mugilan, who founded GAS, said he would also act against the newspaper over a crossed-out photo-strip of sacked MIC central working committee (CWC) members and several eminent former officials who were once supporters of S Samy Vellu.
“For the record, GAS was against Samy Vellu as president of MIC, not the party itself. Tamil Nesan has been describing Samy Vellu as MIC and MIC as Samy Vellu. This is wrong!” he said.
Reiterating that he was “not anti-MIC”, and he “loved” the party, he accused the paper, which is owned by Samy Vellu’s family, of deliberately discrediting him among the Indian community.
“We [GAS] have explained many times that it is not against the party but the ‘old man’.
“But the paper refuses to look at the real issue,” he said, adding that despite the newspaper’s attempt to snuff out GAS, support for the movement was increasing rapidly.
The notice which had been appearing daily since late last week under the title “Anti-MIC Group” featured crossed-out photographs of former MIC deputy president S Subramaniam, CWC members KP Samy, G Kumar Amman, former MIED chief executive officer V Chithrakala and former Petaling Jaya division chief V Subramainiam (Barat Maniam).
Others in the photo-strip were former veteran MIC veteran K Govindasamy, Mugilan, OMS Thilagarajan and former MIC president V Manikavasgam’s brother VL Kanthan.
The notice alleged that they were all not only anti-MIC but also against Umno and Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.
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