MIC to recruit new members via online MIC portal

KUALA LUMPUR: MIC will recruit new members, especially the youths and the educated people through an online MIC portal, president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said here.

“We will also be opening more youth branches, with opportunities provided to graduates to lead them, he said.

Speaking at the closing of the two-day MIC general assembly, he said 2,000 graduates have already been identified for the task.

“We have asked the MIC Youth and Putera MIC to streamline their machinery to actively recruit the youths,” he said.

Samy Vellu said that his deputy Datuk G. Palanivel would spearhead the MIC move to woo the more than 20% Indian electorate for the Bagan Pinang by-election.

He assured that each of the elected leaders would carry out their work and responsibilities entrusted to them with dedication and renewed spirit.

“This new team is capable of working with me to strengthen the party machinery and regain the Indian community’s support for Barisan Nasional,” he said.

Samy Vellu took a dig at his former deputy president Datuk S. Subramaniam when he said that he could work well with Datuk G. Palanivel who is in his second term as deputy president.

“I am not a bad person. I don’t know why I can’t work with Subramaniam even after 27 years,” he said.

He said some people claimed delegates did not listen to the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s call for a change.

“Anybody can talk but the final decision is your right. When you make the decision, we will follow.

“Be with me and I will be with you and let us talk to the community in our own way. We speak to the community to attract them by not putting up shows but go to the house to explain what is the problem and how we can overcome them,” he said.

Samy Vellu said MIC will strive to fulfil the desire of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to get the Indians back to Barisan.

He said the women would also be given a bigger role to identify women leaders to lead the branch and divisions.

The women wing and the Puteri MIC need to be more active and creative to plan and implement more programmes for the women, he said.

Samy Vellu said a comprehensive programme had to be formulated and implemented from time to time for the two wings.

All programmes undertaken have to be disseminated to the public through the media and internet to enable the society to know the party’s activities, he said.