Samy explains rationale behind MIC's print ads

SUNGAI SIPUT, Wed: 

The MIC is placing advertisements in the print media to inform the public and the Indian community on programmes carried out by the party.

The one-page advertisement in newspapers with the heading "MIC Cares...The power of truth" outlined the benefits and achievements enjoyed by the community which was initiated by the party.

MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said this had to be done to counter those who question what the MIC has done for the Indian community. 

"The advertisement is only the first of four parts to counter all these negative claims," he told reporters after witnessing the signing of a MoU between Masterskill College Of Nursing and Health and the MIC's Education Bureau here today. 

The college was represented by its chief executive officer Edmund Santhara and vice president Mohd Nasri Nordin while the signatories for the bureau were its chairman Professor Datuk T. Marimuthu and committee member Madhu Marimuthu. The MoU will see the setting up of a RM1 million Masterskill Intellectual Development Fund by the college to provide scholarship to poor students planning to further their studies at Masterskill colleges in the country.

Chiding those behind the allegations, Samy Vellu said he was not sure whether they read the Tamil dailies or were not residing in Malaysia.

"Maybe the newspapers did not print daily the programmes carried out by MIC and they came to a conclusion that we are doing nothing."

Samy Vellu hit out at Parti Keadilan Rakyat supporters who disrupt BN campaigns and ceramahs, citing the case in Penang on Tuesday when a group of 700 PKR members tried to disrupt the function.

"Those involved were mostly youngsters and 70 percent of them do not even vote,” he said.

--NST