PN to discuss MIC’s entry

Bersatu Youth chief Hilman Idham confirmed that Perikatan Nasional (PN) would be discussing about MIC’s membership in the federal opposition coalition soon.

He confirmed this in a podcast show, The Tiger Show last night.

In its recent annual general meeting, MIC delegates had passed the motion for the ethnic Indian party to leave BN only.

They also decided to allow the party’s highest governing body – the central working committee (CWC) to determine the future of MIC.

MIC has three options – remain with BN, join PN or join PH.

The CWC would decide the party’s way forward in December.

MIC takes on media man for distorted political history

Meanwhile in a related development, MIC took former group managing editor of news and currents in Media Prima Datuk Ashraf Abdullah for distorting and presenting an incomplete political history on the decline of the party.

“The decline of Indian support for MIC and Barisan Nasional did not originate from weaknesses within MIC. It was caused by political errors of the UMNO-led administration that held real authority in government,” said MIC national strategy director Datuk Sivaraj Chandran.

“From 2007 onwards, controversies involving temple demolitions, unilateral conversions and “body-snatching” cases were managed by federal and religious authorities dominated by UMNO. MIC protested and appealed, but final decisions rarely favoured the community.

“The massive HINDRAF rally in 2007 was not aimed solely at MIC. It was a direct reaction to an UMNO-led government that appeared indifferent to legitimate Indian concerns. Protestors shouted “MIC is useless” not because MIC did not try, but because MIC did not have the authority to stop UMNO’s actions.

“In both 2008 and 2018, Indian voters did not reject MIC in isolation. They rejected the coalition as a whole, just as Malay and Chinese voters did as well. The collapse was systemic, not ethnic-specific,” he said in a statement.

Ashraf presented his take on the MIC via FMT.