Samy Vellu’s day of reckoning

By Baradan Kuppusamy

June 09, 2010

Samy Vellu is under increasing pressure for him to call it a day. — file pic

COMMENTARY, June 9 — July 10 is fast emerging as D-Day for embattled 74-year-old MIC president, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

That is when he has been told he must leave, in more ways than one – obliquely, politely and even roughly to his face.

But the veteran politician is holding on against all odds and wants to stay another year — or at least until September 2011 — to give time for him and his cabal to presumably re-organise the party and hand over power to his chosen successor.

His critics say that by re-organising the party, he can still play kingmaker from behind the scenes after retirement. Re-organising the MIC, they say, also ensures his son, Vell Paari, can have a political career.

To keep critics at bay, Samy Vellu has offered a concession — he will leave a few months earlier, but only if he is treated well and offered a high-profile government posting.

But his critics, both in the MIC and outside, refuse to play ball and are adamant that he must step down on July 10 and the reason is that they don’t want him to “re-arrange” the party and stay in power after retirement.

A new, hard-line tone has also crept into the campaign to pressure him to step down by then.

He must leave or face the consequences, MIC sources told The Malaysian Insider.

The consequences could range from, according to MIC sources, “unsavoury” revelations of scandals by expelled deputy MIC Youth chief V. Mugilan or even charges in court over a number of issues ranging from Maika Holdings to the nine million Telekom shares the government had allocated to the Indian community.

Mugilan’s Gerakan Anti-Samy Vellu, or GAS, is pressing hard for Samy Vellu to step down. While the first GAS gathering was not a major success, they have made the point that it is not “business as usual” for Samy Vellu.

They are planning more anti-Samy Vellu rallies and will soon release a CD detailing all of Samy Vellu’s “misdeeds.”

The mainstream media is also giving extensive coverage to GAS activities, indicating they have official sanction to harass and hound Samy Vellu into stepping down.

These tactics are sure to take a toll on the MIC veteran.

Furthermore, the government is ramping up its “go now” plan for Samy Vellu by not giving the party president his due status and weight at government and Barisan Nasional (BN) functions, further isolating the president and his supporters.

He is not treated with the respect and decorum that was his due before.

His decisions and recommendations are largely ignored, and a glaring example was how Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak picked Samy Vellu’s deputy, Datuk G. Palanivel, as senator and deputy minister without Samy Vellu’s blessings.

The cold shoulder treatment sends a clear signal to the veteran president that he is unwanted.

It also tells the MIC rank-and-file that the government and BN want him out of the way so that the long-awaited MIC transformation process can take place under a new leader.

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Did they do that or apply the same tactic on Ong Tee Keat to get him out as MCA president because of the PKFZ issue which is more or less swept under the carpet now ?

Replace Mugilan with Wee Ka Siong and its the same analogy .

MCA leaders must teach Samy Vellu

Meenachi Indian
May 31, 10

The turnout at the Gerakan Anti-Samy Vellu (GAS) gathering may have been much lesser than the anticipated number but the fact that people had actually gathered to boot the shameless Samy Vellu out as MIC president is good enough to show him the door.

However, knowing the kind of person he and his goons are, Samy Vellu will probably cling on to the power seat until he is dragged out by his defective hair by the Indian masses.

To make matters worse, Samy Vellu has shown the type of leader he is by sacking party secretary-general M Murugesan simply because the latter spoke up against the president's dictatorship.

By sacking all those who had questioned him, Samy Vellu has proven once again that he is not much better than ousted Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

Speak to anyone from within the party, promising them the strictest confidentially, and they'll tell you that they want Samy Vellu out but dare not speak up because of fear that the party president and his son would victimise them.

These include the party's state chairmperspns and elected representatives.

Only cohorts like youth leader T Mohan would continue to support the disgraced leader.

Mohan has also shown the kind of person he is by warning party members not to attend the GAS gathering and threatening them with action if they did.

This is not democracy. The MIC gangsters should emulate the MCA which accepts dissent from members and acts on it accordingly.

The shameless Samy Vellu has much to learn from MCA leader Ong Tee Keat.

MIC leaders must also stop being cowards and speak-up against Samy Vellu openly instead of castigating him in private and pretending to be his ally in public.

We do not need spineless leaders who are willing to forego their principles simply because they are frightened of being sacked by Samy Vellu.

It is also time for Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to step in and get the much hated Samy Vellu out.

His son Vell Pari's recent outburst against Umno is merely a tactic to ensure the PM does not step in.

Najib must not fall for this ploy and must involve himself in the mess and remove Samy Vellu in his capacity, not as the Umno president, but as the prime minister for all Malaysians including those of Indian ethnicity.

The prime minister must not allow the Indian community to be taken for a ride over and over again by Samy Vellu and his gangsters.

Samy using same tactics as Chua ? or is it the other way round ?

Chua Soi Lek does not fill the bill as during a recent incident in Alor Gajah where a Youth Division Sec took out a placard telling him to resign , he was forcibly removed and assaulted . Worst , his car was damaged and he will be expelled from MCA . Maybe Samy has learn't from him or he has learn't from Samy .