MIC to focus on winnable seats, says Subra
KUALA LUMPUR: MIC believes it will be a daunting task to win some of the nine parliamentary seats it will be contesting and as such will not place equal attention on all seats.
Its president, Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam, said the party would instead focus more on those seats it is more confident of winning, declining to name them.
He, however, said the party was confident of adding at least two more parliamentary seats to its current four (Segamat, Hulu Selangor, Tapah and Cameron Highlands).
“We know winning some of the parliamentary seats will be difficult because of the nature of the constituencies. Some are difficult seats in terms of demography.
“There are also seats where in terms of the voting population, we feel we have a good chance of winning. So we’re focusing on those seats,” he told reporters after the official announcement of MIC’s GE14 candidates yesterday.
There were no major surprises in the candidates for the parliamentary and state seats, with six of the nine parliamentary seats to be contested by incumbents.
They include party top guns Subramaniam (Segamat), Datuk P. Kamalanathan (Hulu Selangor), Datuk Seri S. K. Devamany (Sungai Siput) and Datuk M. Saravanan (Tapah).
MIC Youth chief Datuk C. Sivarraajh will be vying for the Cameron Highlands seat.
When asked if he foresaw MIC’s candidature affecting its relationship with MyPPP, which had tusselled for the same seat, Subramaniam said: “I don’t think so. At the end of the day, both of us are from BN.” – by Amar Shah Mohsen