SHAH ALAM, Feb 27 – MIC Youth chief T. Mohan(Pic) is not keen on lobbying for any seat in the 13th General Election (GE) and will back whoever is chosen as candidate. Nevertheless, he said he would leave it to party president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel to decide whether he should stand as candidate in the GE.
“I did not even nominate my name in the list of potential candidates which the MIC Youth submitted to the party president.
“I have named 12 people from the Youth wing to be considered candidates. They are professionals who are people-friendly,” he said after visiting the family of teenager A. Hemavathi, who has been reporting missing from her house in Section 24 here today.
Mohan said MIC Youth had expressed its intention to contest in at least three seats in the GE. The wing was allocated two parliamentary and three state seats in the last GE but only managed to win the state seats of Gambir and Kahang, both in Johor. Mohan stood in and lost the Batu Caves state seat in 2008. The other seats where MIC Youth lost were Subang and Kota Raja parliamentary seats. Meanwhile, he said there were no development plans for the Indian community in the election manifesto launched by the opposition pact on Monday. On his visit to Hemavathi’s home, Mohan said the MIC Youth wing sought the assistance of the public to locate the 13-year-old girl who was reported missing on Feb 20.
He said the wing offered a RM10,000 reward to anyone with information leading to the whereabouts of the teenager, who has been described as a slow-learner. Meanwhile, Hemavathi’s mother, Santhi Murugan, 34, said she discovered her daughter missing when she returned to the family’s flat unit for lunch about 12.30pm that day.
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