TNB face off with villagers again, three held

Chaos again erupted at Rawang New Village as Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) workers began construction work on high tension cable towers in the area. Backed by about 50 police personnel, about a dozen TNB workers appeared at the village unannounced and began work at about 9am. According to eyewitnesses, the TNB workers were trying to fill up a trench to allow heavy machinery to reach the site. This prompted scores of villagers to stop them from doing so and a fracas broke out.

Kuil diroboh, penduduk kecewa dengan DAP

SERI KEMBANGAN: Penganut Hindu sekitar Taman Bukit Serdang berasa marah dan kecewa dengan DAP kerana gagal bertindak sebelum Pejabat Tanah Daerah Petaling memusnahkan sebuah kuil. Pada pukul 9.00 pagi hari ini, dengan arahan daripada pengarah pejabat tanah daerah Petaling, sekumpulan penguatkuasa dan polis terdiri daripada lebih 60 orang memusnahkan Kuil Sri Maha Perchai Vada Bathra Kaliamman Alayam di Seksyen 5, Taman Bukit Serdang.Ketika dihubungi, pengerusi jawatankuasa sementara kuil, B Gopalan merakamkan perasaan kecewa.Beliau mengakui walaupun insiden ini berlaku bukan atas arahan DAP tetapi pada masa yang kelewatan DAP bertindak dalam isu ini adalah antara satu punca utama kuil ini di roboh.

Samy declines advisory role, free-for-all in the offing

KUALA LUMPUR: Long-serving MIC president S Samy Vellu's refusal to accept the role of party adviser after his planned retirement in January could lead to a free-for-all in the party.Party sources say Samy Vellu's open declaration yesterday that he would neither interfere in the running of the 63-year-old MIC nor assume the post of party adviser, would set the stage for the scramble for positions in the party.A party source told FMT that it was only natural that leaders start "their political game" to fill up positions that would eventually fall vacant after Samy Vellu's retirement.

Samy’s exit sparks Subra-Palani rivalry

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 — MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has only just announced he is stepping down next year, but the fight to take the lead and become party spokesperson has already started between deputy president and successor Datuk G. Palanivel and senior vice-president Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam.While Dr Subramaniam and his supporters like vice-president Datuk S. K. Devamani and Datuk S. Saravanan lament Samy Vellu’s impending departure as a big loss for the party and the Indian community, Palanivel has maintained a stony silence.

Keng Yaik may have felt 'irrelevant'

Former Gerakan president Dr Lim Keng Yaik is quitting his position as party adviser because he was not consulted on the leadership crisis in Penang.As a senior leader, he is said to have been slighted that his opinion was not considered relevant any more by the party, especially by his handpicked successor Koh Tsu Koon.Lim, who said he would be sending in his resignation letter today, had once declared Koh as his "trump card" and was pleased to see the latter succeed him as party chief in 2007.

MIC wants two minister posts, says veep

SEPANG, Oct 3 — MIC vice-president Datuk S. Subramaniam insisted today the party should get two ministerial posts, signalling his intentions of not relinquishing his job once Senator Datuk G. Palanivel is announced as the party’s interim president. Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu recently announced that he will step down as MIC president in January after leading the party since 1979.However, with Palanivel as party president, leaders within MIC are pressuring Subramaniam to forfeit his post as the human resource minister.

Samy's exit: Start of a new era or a new nightmare?

MIC president Samy Vellu’s announcement that he would step down in January next year was greeted with sighs of relief especially within the Indian community, but even so, few are willing to celebrate just yet.Not only because the 74-year old leader has been known to change his mind before, there were also fears that he might still control the party behind the scenes.Or that his successor, deputy president G Palanivel, might continue the same sort of iron-fisted rule and policies that have been blamed for turning off many young intellectuals from joining the MIC.