THE MIC supreme council today agreed to hold party elections for its Wanita, Youth, Puteri and Putera wings this month, with nominations set for next Sunday. 

MIC president S. A. Vigneswaran said elections and delegate meetings for all four wings have also been fixed for October 17.

“At divisional level, nominations will be held on October 17 while delegate meetings and elections are on October 24,” he told reporters after the supreme council meeting at the party headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today. 

Vigneswaran said nominations for state level, supreme council and vice president positions will be held on November 20 and elections a week after. 

He said MIC decided to hold party elections as the country was now under a new administration and had already started showing signs of coming out of the Covid-19 crisis.

“There have been considerable changes in the Covid-19 statistics. So, MIC will take this opportunity to hold party elections,” he said.

Vigneswaran said the election would allow many fresh faces to join the party at the grassroots, divisional and state levels to determine MIC’s future direction. 

On the 15th general election, he said the MIC had no objection if Barisan Nasional (BN) decides to allocate seats to any component party or BN-friendly party.

In GE14, the MIC contested nine parliamentary seats and won two, in Tapah and Cameron Highlands.

However, in the Cameron Highlands by-election in January 2019, MIC gave way to Umno, whose candidate won the seat. – Bernama, October 3, 2021.