MIC president Dr S Subramaniam has a good chance of retaining his Segamat parliament seat with a higher majority in the forthcoming 14th general elections, said its Youth chief C Sivarraajh.

"We see that our president has been working in the area for a long time.

"Based on feedback from the ground, we (MIC Youth) believe that he (Subramaniam) can easily retain the seat. That is not a problem," Sivarraajh told a press conference at the party's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur this morning.

Given Subramaniam's status as a federal minister and party president, Sivarraajh (right in photo) said MIC Youth is also confident that various "slanderous issues" played up by the opposition pact would have little impact on the voters.

"Reality on the ground is that Subramaniam has been working hard on the ground, he has been working there for a long time, and so I believe his majority would increase in this elections," said Sivarraajh.

He said this when asked for comments on whether MIC had made extra preparations to defend Segamat - a seat in Johor - one of Pakatan Harapan's focus states in its attempt to capture Putrajaya.

Sivarraajh earlier announced that MIC Youth had identified 11 "hot seats" for GE14 - comprising five parliamentary constituencies including Segamat and six state seats.

Subramaniam, a three-term MP, had won and retained Segamat with a declining majority since the 11th general elections in 2004.

In the last elections, Subramaniam defeated former MCA federal minister Dr Chua Jui Meng who contested under a PKR ticket, with a 1,217 majority from the 47,009 ballots cast.