PRESS STATEMENT - V MUGILAN & KUMAR AMMAN

On the 5^th June 2010, TAMIL NESAN DAILY has reported with our pictures crossed out on the front page, stating that we are all part of “MIC Anti Group”. This is a preposterous accussation by them(TAMIL NESAN DAILY) as we have made our group’s stand very clear from the very beginning, which even spells out as GAS, an acronym to ‘Gerakan Anti Samy Vellu’. We are against the individual and his outmoded leadership, not the party which we are still very part and proud of.

One may ask why do we claim to be part of the party when we were expeled by the party president, as it is common knowledge that we both have appealed to the CWC for our reinstatement. This is due to the fact that we still have great faith in the CWC and we believe that CWC would consider our appeal on an unbiased route.

The abovementioned accusation is also a desperate move by them to cast aspersions and disparagement to our noble cause due to the very fact that even our expulsion order itself was not done in the spirit of the said Articles of the MIC Constitution.

Article 14.2.1 – “make or be party to the making of any statement to the press on any matter concerning the party, party affairs or any member of the party which is detrimental to the party or is contrary to its policy or objectives.”

As illustrated above, this was the reason stated in the expulsion letter. Now, we put it to them to prove which part of our statements made to the press was detrimental to the party or was contrary to its policies or objectives when we were merely requesting Dato’ Seri S. Samy Vellu to step down for the greater good of the party and the community. It has to do with an individual that is destroying the party and the community that depends upon it. If anything, we were making statements in line with the party’s objectives and to also prevent it from being irrelevant in future.

Hence, by making accusations such as this, they are trying to confuse the community and the party members over and over again by calling us an “Anti MIC Group” when in essence our noble cause is to oust one person from destroying the very fundamentals principles of the party and democracy as a whole. Thus we both appealed against the explusion with the view of democracy and the vested trust in the CWC that justice will be served accordingly and to reinstate us.

For this act of attempting to confuse the community and put us in bad light amongst our colleagues, we shall seek redress by filing a defamation suit against TAMIL NESAN DAILY through our lawyers Thiru Kumar Esq & T.Rajasekaran.