MIC’s longest-serving president S Samy Vellu has called his successor G Palanivel a weak leader for not being able to answer back to his critics and for letting “monkeys” do the work for him instead.

Samy Vellu, now a Malaysian diplomat to India and Southern Asia, was responding to those who took him to task for criticising Palanivel - the leader he had groomed for 20 years - in an interview with The Star newspaper.