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KUALA LUMPUR: Former MIC president Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu has lodged a police report against the party’s new secretary-general over a decision barring unauthorised personnel from entering the party headquarters in Kuala Lumpur without consent.

Samy Vellu said he had been shouted at and abused by secretary-general Datuk G Kumar Aaman when he had asked him about the new ruling which stopped members and the public from entering the party headquarters.

“As a trustee of MIC and former president, I rang him up to ask him who gave him the authority to do this. For that, he shouted at me and hurled vulgar and abusive words at me, saying it was his right,” Samy Vellu said in his police report.

Samy Vellu said the decision to stop people and party members from entering the headquarters was illegal.

“As far as I am concerned, I had been president for 31 years and [am] chairman of MIED (Maju Institute of Education Development) and we cannot stop the general public from coming into the MIC headquarters,” he said.

However, Kumar retaliated by lodging his own police report at the Dang Wangi police station where he said the former MIC chief had called him a “rascal” and threatened to “finish him off”.

Kumar said he had told Samy Vellu that the security measures were to stop outsiders from entering the party headquarters which also houses the MIED and Selangor MIC headquarters. He said the former party chief did not need any permission to enter the building.

Backing Samy Vellu’s report, Datuk Seri S Vell Paari, who is the former MIC president’s son and former party strategic director, maintained that Kumar had used foul language on Samy Vellu.

In his open letter emailed to the media, Vell Paari said he was contemplating reporting Kumar to the Registrar of Societies (RoS), alleging that he is an illegal secretary-general.

“I have instructed my lawyers to seek a declaration on your unlawful appointment. I also will report you to RoS for acting with an unlawful position to seek a ruling on your membership in a society,” Vell Paari wrote in his open letter.

Fighting within the party intensified when president Datuk Seri G Palanivel, in a move to consolidate his grip, last week replaced secretary-general A Prakash Rao with loyalists Datuk G Kumar Silambaram @ Kumar Aaman and dropped former loyalists Tan Sri KS Nijhar, Datuk R Ramanan, as well as Vell Paari.

It also brought about Kumar’s directive to ban unauthorised party members from entering the party headquarters, a move seen as directed at Palanivel’s critics who had held a series of media conferences at the party headquarters questioning his leadership.

MIC is in the throes of crisis after the RoS found irregularities in the party polls and ordered it to conduct fresh polls.

The RoS directive had also sparked fears that failure to conduct fresh polls would result in the party being deregistered. — The Malaysian Insider

 

This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on January 14, 2015.

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