KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 (Bernama) -- MIC's internal crisis which has deepened considerably requires the intervention of a neutral party as mediator to resolve the crisis, political veterans and analysts said.
They feel it was time for MIC president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel and his deputy Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam provided help by a third party to resolve the problems faced by the party.
MCA veteran Datuk Yap Pian Hon said the MIC should take similar measures as MCA when the party was faced with a crisis in the 1980s, that was to allow Barisan Nasional (BN) to assist the party to resolve their internal crisis.
He said the current MIC crisis was very similar to that experienced by the MCA at that time when the president and deputy president were at loggerheads.
"With the help of BN's negotiations, MCA was reunited," he told Bernama here today when referring to the MCA's leadership crisis involving Datuk Dr Neo Yee Pan and Datuk Mak Hoon Kam with Tan Koon Swan in 1985.
Umno veteran Datuk Mustapha Yaakub said the MIC does not need to be cold towards help that is offered by third parties, especially from BN component parties who want to help.
"BN wants to help solve the problem, but do not let our good intentions be misinterpreted. MIC proved today that it cannot resolve the problem within, it is best the MIC finds a solution through mediators outside MIC irrespective whether the help is from UMNO, MCA or even Gerakan," he said.
Former Wanita Umno chief, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, is of the opinion that BN component parties should give priority to the interests of the party and BN.
She said if any party in BN is really facing an impasse in resolving the crisis that has engulfed the party, the party leadership should seek the advice of BN's top leadership.
Meanwhile, political analyst Associate Professor Dr Ahmad Marthada Mohamed of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) said both MIC leaders must put aside their personal interest and come to a compromise in order to resolve the crisis.
"I'm sure they realise, if they do not attempt to sit together and solve this crisis amicably, MIC in particular will be doomed and become irrelevant," the dean of the college of Law, Government and International Studies told Bernama today.
He pointed out that although the crisis in MIC was not something new as it also happened during previous leadership, Palanivel seems to be dragging it without a clear solution.
In fact the recent court decision rejecting Palanivel and four others' request to nullify the Registrar of Societies (RoS) order to hold fresh party elections, seemed to have taken a new twist.
Marthada also shared the same sentiment as others that a mediator was needed in this crisis and the mediator could come from within the party or be an outsider because
BN had tried to intervene but it seems MIC leaders refused as they initially wanted to solve the problem by themselves.
Another political analyst, Associate Professor Dr Sivamurugan Pandian, suggested that fresh elections for all posts, including party president and deputy president, would be the best solution to solve the crisis.
"This solution, in my opinion, would resolve and put a stop to the matter. This problem must not go on until it damages the 68 year-old party's image," the lecturer with Universiti Sains Malaysia's Social Science Studies Centre said.
-- BERNAMA
They feel it was time for MIC president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel and his deputy Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam provided help by a third party to resolve the problems faced by the party.
MCA veteran Datuk Yap Pian Hon said the MIC should take similar measures as MCA when the party was faced with a crisis in the 1980s, that was to allow Barisan Nasional (BN) to assist the party to resolve their internal crisis.
He said the current MIC crisis was very similar to that experienced by the MCA at that time when the president and deputy president were at loggerheads.
"With the help of BN's negotiations, MCA was reunited," he told Bernama here today when referring to the MCA's leadership crisis involving Datuk Dr Neo Yee Pan and Datuk Mak Hoon Kam with Tan Koon Swan in 1985.
Umno veteran Datuk Mustapha Yaakub said the MIC does not need to be cold towards help that is offered by third parties, especially from BN component parties who want to help.
"BN wants to help solve the problem, but do not let our good intentions be misinterpreted. MIC proved today that it cannot resolve the problem within, it is best the MIC finds a solution through mediators outside MIC irrespective whether the help is from UMNO, MCA or even Gerakan," he said.
Former Wanita Umno chief, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, is of the opinion that BN component parties should give priority to the interests of the party and BN.
She said if any party in BN is really facing an impasse in resolving the crisis that has engulfed the party, the party leadership should seek the advice of BN's top leadership.
Meanwhile, political analyst Associate Professor Dr Ahmad Marthada Mohamed of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) said both MIC leaders must put aside their personal interest and come to a compromise in order to resolve the crisis.
"I'm sure they realise, if they do not attempt to sit together and solve this crisis amicably, MIC in particular will be doomed and become irrelevant," the dean of the college of Law, Government and International Studies told Bernama today.
He pointed out that although the crisis in MIC was not something new as it also happened during previous leadership, Palanivel seems to be dragging it without a clear solution.
In fact the recent court decision rejecting Palanivel and four others' request to nullify the Registrar of Societies (RoS) order to hold fresh party elections, seemed to have taken a new twist.
Marthada also shared the same sentiment as others that a mediator was needed in this crisis and the mediator could come from within the party or be an outsider because
BN had tried to intervene but it seems MIC leaders refused as they initially wanted to solve the problem by themselves.
Another political analyst, Associate Professor Dr Sivamurugan Pandian, suggested that fresh elections for all posts, including party president and deputy president, would be the best solution to solve the crisis.
"This solution, in my opinion, would resolve and put a stop to the matter. This problem must not go on until it damages the 68 year-old party's image," the lecturer with Universiti Sains Malaysia's Social Science Studies Centre said.
-- BERNAMA
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