Acting division chief M Letchimanasamy and secretary S Muniandy charged with undermining party leadership.
GEORGE TOWN: Two Bagan MIC division leaders have been issued separate show cause letters from the party’s disciplinary committee for alleged misconduct.
M Letchimanasamy, the division’s acting chairman, and secretary S Muniandy, have been given 14 days to explain as to why disciplinary action should not be taken against them.
The letters issued to them on Nov 14, was signed by disciplinary committee committee chairman KS Nijhar.
They have been charged with undermining the party leadership when they criticised the appointment of M Karuppanan as BN’s Bagan Dalam state constituency coordinator.
Lawyer Karuppanan, the MIC state secretary, was appointed last month to replace MIC state chairman PK Subbaiyah, who has been appointed as a senator.
Letchimanasamy and Muniandy were charged for press statements on Oct 12 and Oct 14 this year questioning Karuppanan’s appointment.
When contacted both Letchimanasamy and Muniandy confirmed that they have been issued show cause letters, but declined to comment further. They said they would reply to the show cause within the stipulated time.
On Nov 7, FMT reported that the two were in hot water for backing suspended division chairman and Subbaiyah’s arch rival Henry Benedict Asirvatham as BN candidate for Bagan Dalam in the 13th General Election.
Prai is the other seat in Penang allotted to MIC under the BN electoral arrangement.
Letchimanasamy and Muniandy had reportedly urged MIC’s national leadership to terminate Henry’s suspension and reinstate him as the rightful Bagan division chief.
Bagan MIC division faces closure?
They even called for Prime Minister and BN national chairman Najib Tun Razak to intervene and replace Karuppanan with Henry as Bagan Dalam coordinator.
It’s a BN practice that a constituency coordinator would be the front runner for candidacy in the next election.
The duo’s press statements infuriated certain quarters, who called on the party leadership to expel the duo.
The Bagan MIC crisis may undermine BN’s target to win back between 10 and 15 state seats it lost to Pakatan Rakyat in the last general election.
Bagan Dalam, which is among those seats, has 17,194 registered voters of which the Chinese account for 52.6%, Malays 24.3% and Indians 22.3%.
Bagan Dalam, which comes under the Bagan parliamentary constituency, is currently held by DAP’s A Tanasekharan, who defeated incumbent Subbaiyah in the 2008 election.
Disciplinary action on Letchimanasamy and Muniandy, on top of Henry’s suspension, would likely trigger the closure of Bagan MIC division.
If the division, which has 15 branches and over 2,000 members, were to close shop, party insiders said MIC chances of regaining Bagan Dalam will be “virtually zero.”
GEORGE TOWN: Two Bagan MIC division leaders have been issued separate show cause letters from the party’s disciplinary committee for alleged misconduct.M Letchimanasamy, the division’s acting chairman, and secretary S Muniandy, have been given 14 days to explain as to why disciplinary action should not be taken against them.
The letters issued to them on Nov 14, was signed by disciplinary committee committee chairman KS Nijhar.
They have been charged with undermining the party leadership when they criticised the appointment of M Karuppanan as BN’s Bagan Dalam state constituency coordinator.
Lawyer Karuppanan, the MIC state secretary, was appointed last month to replace MIC state chairman PK Subbaiyah, who has been appointed as a senator.
Letchimanasamy and Muniandy were charged for press statements on Oct 12 and Oct 14 this year questioning Karuppanan’s appointment.
When contacted both Letchimanasamy and Muniandy confirmed that they have been issued show cause letters, but declined to comment further. They said they would reply to the show cause within the stipulated time.
On Nov 7, FMT reported that the two were in hot water for backing suspended division chairman and Subbaiyah’s arch rival Henry Benedict Asirvatham as BN candidate for Bagan Dalam in the 13th General Election.
Prai is the other seat in Penang allotted to MIC under the BN electoral arrangement.
Letchimanasamy and Muniandy had reportedly urged MIC’s national leadership to terminate Henry’s suspension and reinstate him as the rightful Bagan division chief.
Bagan MIC division faces closure?
They even called for Prime Minister and BN national chairman Najib Tun Razak to intervene and replace Karuppanan with Henry as Bagan Dalam coordinator.
It’s a BN practice that a constituency coordinator would be the front runner for candidacy in the next election.
The duo’s press statements infuriated certain quarters, who called on the party leadership to expel the duo.
The Bagan MIC crisis may undermine BN’s target to win back between 10 and 15 state seats it lost to Pakatan Rakyat in the last general election.
Bagan Dalam, which is among those seats, has 17,194 registered voters of which the Chinese account for 52.6%, Malays 24.3% and Indians 22.3%.
Bagan Dalam, which comes under the Bagan parliamentary constituency, is currently held by DAP’s A Tanasekharan, who defeated incumbent Subbaiyah in the 2008 election.
Disciplinary action on Letchimanasamy and Muniandy, on top of Henry’s suspension, would likely trigger the closure of Bagan MIC division.
If the division, which has 15 branches and over 2,000 members, were to close shop, party insiders said MIC chances of regaining Bagan Dalam will be “virtually zero.”
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