Despite ugly scenes at the MIC headquarters last
Thursday, MIC president G Palanivel said "more than a thousand" who
turned up were there to support him.
This despite banners and most of the crowd of hundreds gathering to urge him to resign.
Instead, Palanivel told The Star that all MIC branch and state chairpersons who turned up after the emergency central working committee meeting on the party re-electon backed him.
“Our party is very strong, over 1,000 people turned up to support me, all the MIC branch and state chairmen were there.
“It was this small group that created the hoo-ha, the rowdiness and hooliganism - we must know who they are.
“They were trying to provoke us, and my group wanted to react but they did not, they kept quiet,” Palanivel was quoted as saying in the daily.
Palanivel also went on to describe those who want him to resign from the party as those who are from the "bottom level" of the organisation.
“They are the ones calling for me to resign. How can I resign? This is a small group, but they are not at the top leadership level, they are at the bottom level.
“I didn’t bother about all this. Even when I went into the car, they never came near me. I just drove off,” he added.
He noted that those who lost the elections held last year in Malacca are out to "create problems" for the party.
Palanivel a 'role model'
In the interview, Palanivel also labelled himself a "role model", claiming that he is a different kind of role model to his predecessor, S Samy Vellu.
“No. He is a separate role model, I am a different kind of role model. I work on the ground very carefully, from Johor up to Kedah. I don’t create problems.
“I
quietly strengthen the grassroots. I have performed my duties,
allocating so much to temples and NGOs - this didn’t happen during those
days," he stressed.
Last Thursday, a crowd swarmed, kicked and thumped the car of one CWC member after the meeting, forcing the police's Light Strike Force to intervene.
Palanivel (right) himself was mobbed by angry MIC members while exiting the meeting room and later as he headed towards his car amid shouts of "Resign" and "We want a re-election".
The MIC chief swiftly dismissed this as the work of "gangsters", but former MIC Youth chief T Mohan rebutted him by saying that the protestors were MIC members who want Palanivel out.
This despite banners and most of the crowd of hundreds gathering to urge him to resign.
Instead, Palanivel told The Star that all MIC branch and state chairpersons who turned up after the emergency central working committee meeting on the party re-electon backed him.
“Our party is very strong, over 1,000 people turned up to support me, all the MIC branch and state chairmen were there.“It was this small group that created the hoo-ha, the rowdiness and hooliganism - we must know who they are.
“They were trying to provoke us, and my group wanted to react but they did not, they kept quiet,” Palanivel was quoted as saying in the daily.
Palanivel also went on to describe those who want him to resign from the party as those who are from the "bottom level" of the organisation.
“They are the ones calling for me to resign. How can I resign? This is a small group, but they are not at the top leadership level, they are at the bottom level.
“I didn’t bother about all this. Even when I went into the car, they never came near me. I just drove off,” he added.
He noted that those who lost the elections held last year in Malacca are out to "create problems" for the party.
Palanivel a 'role model'
In the interview, Palanivel also labelled himself a "role model", claiming that he is a different kind of role model to his predecessor, S Samy Vellu.
“No. He is a separate role model, I am a different kind of role model. I work on the ground very carefully, from Johor up to Kedah. I don’t create problems.
“I
quietly strengthen the grassroots. I have performed my duties,
allocating so much to temples and NGOs - this didn’t happen during those
days," he stressed.Last Thursday, a crowd swarmed, kicked and thumped the car of one CWC member after the meeting, forcing the police's Light Strike Force to intervene.
Palanivel (right) himself was mobbed by angry MIC members while exiting the meeting room and later as he headed towards his car amid shouts of "Resign" and "We want a re-election".
The MIC chief swiftly dismissed this as the work of "gangsters", but former MIC Youth chief T Mohan rebutted him by saying that the protestors were MIC members who want Palanivel out.
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