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By Izatun Shari
“Please remember, it was this current president who set the precedent some 40 years ago by asking the then president Tun V.T. Sambanthan to step down. You can call it some kind of karma,” says Murugesan
He said presidential powers should have been used as the last resort and not as the first option.
He said the expelled members should have been given the right to explain and then referred to the disciplinary committee.
S. Murugesan “This shakes democracy in the party,” he said at a press conference on Friday.
Samy had expelled two CWC members KP Samy and G Kumar Amaan, as well as MIC Youth wing deputy chief V Mugilan and Petaling Jaya division’s V. Subramaniam. On Thursday, another CWC member P. Palaniappan had also criticised the president's summary expulsions of his critics.
“The Indian community and the nation are watching. The MIC president seems to be sending the wrong signal to those who are considering joining the party,” he told reporters.
“This approach shakes democracy in MIC. Democracy in MIC should be strengthened, not threatened,” said Murugesan, who appeared right before another press conference by sacked MIC Youth deputy chief V Mugilan on Gerakan Anti-Samy Vellu’s impending gathering on Sunday.
“I am not here to argue about the tenure of the current president or the merit in the argument in asking him to step down.”
Murugesan said he was merely expressing his opinion as he did not agree with expulsion by using presidential power without giving the CWC members the right to be heard at the party’s disciplinary committee.
“This is my own principle. I have carefully thought of the consequences. It has nothing to do with views or actions by others.”
He said that the provision in the party constitution and rule to sack members in the party was not intended to protect the president from challengers.
“Please remember, it was this current president who set the precedent some 40 years ago by asking the then president Tun V.T. Sambanthan to step down. You can call it some kind of karma.”
Asked whether he accepted Samy Vellu’s retirement plan to step down in September next year, he said : “I am only expressing my opinion. My statement has nothing to do with that. I have stood up and I am willing to face any consequences.”
“I am not against Samy Vellu. We can all have differing opinions,” he said adding that taking action against those with differing views was ridiculous.
“The way to put it right is to argue back,” he said.
Asked whether he anticipated more dissenting views from CWC members, he said : ”A lot of people are talking, whispering. How many will risk everything, I don’t know.”
He said he was mindful of his heavy responsibility as the party’s secretary-general and had carried out instructions of the president and the CWC, but he had the obligation to protect the interest of the party and its members.
As an elected CWC member, he said he was answerable to delegates, branch chairmen and members.
He said he had forsaken his political future by coming up to voice up his opinion but it had come to a point that he could not live with his conscience and the people who voted for him to safeguard his own position in the party.
On whether he supported GAS, which was calling for Samy Vellu to step down immediately, he said :”I have not formed any opinion on that. I’m a loyal MIC member. People can have their own opinion.”
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