MIC president describes current political landscape a boon

SHAH ALAM: MIC president Tan Sri S. A. Vigneswaran describes the current political landscape as a boon for the party, as it has more time to unite grassroot members under one umbrella to become a formidable opposition party under Barisan Nasional (BN).
Vigneswaran said under his leadership, the party would now focus to reach out to its party members who were not on the electoral roll and get them registered.
"We want to concentrate on our own voters ... every party division has an election committee and we want to ensure our MIC members become voters in that respective area.
"As such the current political landscape is the best thing that could happen, we have more time for ourselves to do the things we want.
"We do not have to spend money for any programme now compared to last time where all we want is to run programmes explaining on the government policies to the Indian community," he told reporters after opening the 31st National level Convention of Wanita, Pemuda, Putera and Puteri MIC, here today.
MIC is now an opposition party after BN's dismal performance in the 14th general election.
The party had one of its poorest outings in the election, winning only two parliamentary and three state seats.
On another note, Vigneswaran who is Dewan Negara president, said the current Pakatan Harapan government is leveraging the support of its prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, and where it not for him, the coalition wouldn't have succeeded to form the government. — Bernama