MIC perlu perjelas hadiri mesyuarat PPBM

BARISAN Nasional (BN) akan menghantar surat rasmi kepada MIC bagi meminta penjelasan berhubung tindakan seorang pemimpin sayap parti itu menghadiri Perhimpunan Agung Tahunan (PAT) Angkatan Bersatu Anak Muda (Armada) Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) di Shah Alam pada Sabtu.

Pengerusi BN, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi berkata, MIC perlu memberi penjelasan bertulis kerana Bersatu bukan sebahagian daripada gabungan BN sebaliknya parti pembangkang.

Menurutnya, perbuatan tersebut tidak sepatutnya berlaku memandangkan BN merupakan sebahagian daripada parti kerajaan.

“Kita serahkan kepada Kepimpinan MIC untuk mengambil sebarang tindakan disiplin berdasarkan peraturan partinya dan mereka juga akan dipinta oleh Setiausaha Agung BN untuk memberikan penjelasan secara bertulis kenapa menghantar wakil.

“Ia satu manifestasi yang tidak baik dan tidak sepatutnya mana-mana wakil parti komponen BN menghadiri persidangan anjuran parti di luar Kerajaan Madani, sama ada atas kapasiti peribadi mahupun rasmi,” katanya di Bagan Datuk, Ahad lalu.

MIC must explain for attending Bersatu AGM

BARISAN Nasional will send a letter to MIC for an explanation over a youth leader attending Bersatu Youth’s annual general assembly in Shah Alam on Saturday.

BN chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said MIC must submit a written explanation since Bersatu is part of the opposition, Sinar Harian reported.

He also said the MIC leadership would be left to take any disciplinary action under party rules.

“They will also be asked by the BN secretary-general (Zambry Abdul Kadir) to provide a written explanation for sending a representative,” he was quoted as saying after an event in Bagan Datuk, Perak, Sunday.

“This is inappropriate … no representative of a BN component party should attend a conference organised by a party outside the Madani government, whether in a personal or official capacity.”

On Saturday, MIC deputy youth chief K Kesavan attended the Bersatu Youth wing’s annual general meeting.

MIC deputy president M Saravanan also confirmed with FMT that the party was invited to attend and that Kesavan was their “representative”.

The invitation comes amid speculation that Perikatan Nasional is attempting to court MCA and MIC to join its coalition.