While the apparent death of Pakatan Rakyat and the war of words between Tourism Minister Nazri Aziz and Johor Crown Prince Tunku Ismail Tunku Ibrahim rage on, from out of left field comes the news that the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) has fired its president G Palanivel.
MIC’s central working committee (CWC) announced today that it had resolved to strip Palanivel of his party membership, and thus his presidency, effective immediately.
The CWC decision was in response to Palanivel announcing the 12-month suspension of MIC deputy president S Subramaniam and 13 other party leaders for holding a CWC meeting today, a meeting the ousted president said was illegal.
In the wake of Palanivel’s termination, Subramaniam has been installed as acting president.
Subramaniam told The Malaysian Insider‘s Ram Anand that leaders in the Barisan Nasional ruling coalition, to whom the MIC belongs, had already been informed of the party’s decision to oust Palanivel in March.
The acting president also said that Palanivel effectively lost his membership in MIC when he took the Registrar of Societies (RoS) to court wihtout MIC’s approval.
Palanivel refused to recognise a directive from the RoS to allow for fresh party polls after the elections for MIC’s 2013 CWC were heavily disputed.
The CWC currently holding the reins of MIC is the one elected in 2009, whose authority Palanivel does not recognise.
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