MIC defers elections to September

The MIC has postponed the elections for its top posts, except that of president, to September next year, according to party sources.

The decision to move the party polls from June to September was taken at a meeting of the MIC central working committee (CWC), the party’s highest decision-making body, earlier this month.

However, the election for the post of president will go on as scheduled in late February next year, sources said.

Long-serving president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, who took over the leadership of the party in 1979 and has retained the post for 10 consecutive terms, is the only candidate so far to announce his intention to contest the top post.

Although the last party elections were held in June 2006, the MIC constitution allows for the CWC to defer the election of top office bearers for a period of 18 months.

The nearly 1,500 divisional delegates would, at the polls now set for September next year, pick a deputy president, three vice-presidents and 23 CWC members. — Bernama