KUALA LUMPUR: Several candidates who lost in the recent MIC elections have claimed irregularities in the election process and want the party to declare the results null and void.
P. Subramaniam, who contested for a vice-president’s post, said the main concern was the vote-counting process.
“About 90% of those counting the votes are under the payroll of the MIC,” he claimed at a press conference yesterday.
“We never saw any students there. Only MIC, KPJ (Koperasi Pekerja Jaya) and MIED (Maju Institute of Educational Development) staff members were there counting the votes,” Subramaniam said, adding that the vote-counting was supposed to be done by university students.
He also said he was not allowed to make his own count of the votes while observing the counting process.
“For the vice-president ballot boxes, they opened 25-40 counters but we were only allowed to see two when they started counting,” he said.
K. Saraswathy, the legal advisor for the group, said MIC president Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu practised double standards by acting as a de facto campaigner and agent, and behaving as if he was one of the candidates in the run-up to the party polls.
She said the current central working committee was illegal except for four candidates who were in the unofficial line-up.
Those present at the press conference included Saaran Nadarajah, R. Anbahalagan, T. Ananthan and N. Subramaniam, who ran for committee posts but lost.
Saraswathy said formal letters of complaints addressing this and several other issues had been sent to the party’s election committee and an answer was expected by next week.
The other complaints included breach on the rule prohibiting campaigning on voting day and Samy Vellu’s overruling of the ban on handphones in the voting hall.
However, Saraswathy did not say what the group plan to do if they did not receive any answer.
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