Sunday February 17, 2008
Vote wisely, says Samy
BUTTERWORTH: Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has advised Indian voters not to let emotions rule when casting their votes on March 8 as they will end up regretting it.
The MIC president said it was important for them to vote wisely for the sake of their children and the Indian community.
He also said that he would quit the party when the time was right.
“We are slowly increasing the number of youth leaders in the party and I will hand over the leadership when they are ready. I will then walk away.
“But don’t be emotional when casting your votes or you will destroy the community with your own hands.
“This is going to be the biggest turn in politics – whether you give the Barisan Nasional or the Opposition a chance to run the country,” he said when addressing the Prai constituents at the Taman Inderawasih Rukun Tetangga hall yesterday.
Samy Vellu later briefly sang a popular 1960s Tamil song Sollathan Ninaikkiren Mudiyeavillai to stress to the majority Indian crowd how hard it was to express his thoughts in words.
The MIC leader was leading a strong MIC team to Prai, considered the party’s state bastion, in an effort to retain the state seat. He also visited key Indian areas.
Samy Velu said the party worked hard for the Indian community especially during troubled times.
“When you are in need (of help), who do you call? The MIC men.
“If there is a child looking after the cow and you have another child in the womb, you don’t kill the child that has been looking after the cow,” he said, using the analogy to differentiate between the Barisan and the Opposition.
Samy Vellu was confident that Barisan would retain the Prai state seat as most of the voters were middle-aged who wanted a stable government.
The MIC will field a new candidate to contest the Prai seat after the party’s three-term assemblyman Datuk Dr K. Rajapathy decided to opt out.
In the last general election, Rajapathy defeated DAP’s Chong Eng with a majority of 583 votes. The MIC’s only other state seat in Penang is Bagan Dalam.
In 2004, Prai’s electorate was made up of Malays (11%), Chinese (52%), Indians (35%) and others (2%).
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