By G Vinod
PETALING JAYA: Coordinators of Gerakan Anti-Samy Vellu (GAS) reiterated their threat to converge in front of MIC president S Samy Vellu's house if the long serving party chief does not vacate his post by year's end as promised.
Sacked party central working committee member G Kumar Aamaan, one of the movement's coordinators, said if Samy Vellu does not step down by December, GAS would hold a gathering in front of the MIC chief's residence in Jalan Ipoh in a bid to force him to vacate the post he has held since 1979.
“We will hold a silent gathering at his place. We also plan to send a memorandum to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong over the matter,” Kumar Aamaan told FMT.
The movement is also peeved at Samy Vellu's statement yesterday that he will not be stepping down come December. He did not state when he intended to leave the post.
Earlier reports quoting sources, revealed Samy Vellu had been telling his inner-circle that he “will not be around after December”, raising prospects that the party veteran may step down sooner than his proposed September or October 2011 deadline he had set for himself.
His statement yesterday effectively poured cold water on his December 2010 departure date.
Samy can't be trusted
Kumar Aamaan said this was why party members should not trust Samy Vellu's words and why GAS came into being in the first place.
“Some quarters told us off saying since Samy had already announced his retirement plans, why antagonise him further. Now they will know why we did what we did,” he said.
Another GAS coordinator, V Mugilan, said this had been Samy Vellu's way of doing things which was "promising one thing and backtracking later on".
“This is the real Samy Vellu, the one who loves to break his own promises,” said Mugilan, who was sacked from his position as the MIC deputy youth chief for urging Samy Vellu to retire.
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