GE15: MIC to still contest Hulu Selangor parliamentary seat

MIC will still be contesting the Hulu Selangor parliamentary seat in the forthcoming 15th general election (GE15), amid rumours that it will be given to an Umno candidate to contest it.

MIC deputy president M Saravanan said if there were requests pertaining to the distribution of seats among the parties in BN, these would first be discussed at the grassroots level for a suitable approach to winning the seats.

“The same situation had existed before, with regard to the request for exchanging seats, but the BN leadership comprising four important component parties will be discussing it at the BN level,” Saravanan (above) told Bernama yesterday.

There have been talks that the Hulu Selangor Umno division wants to field its candidate for the seat in GE15 to prove the party’s capability to seize it from PKR.

In GE14, the BN candidate from MIC, P Kamalanathan, failed to defend the seat. He lost to the PKR candidate, June Leow Hsiad Hui, who won with a majority of 13,391 votes.

The Hulu Selangor seat has been among MIC’s traditional seats, with its former president G Palanivel having won the seat four times - in 1990, 1995, 1999 and 2004.

Saravanan said any pressure to exchange seats or candidates could hinder victory for BN, besides possibly reducing the Indian community’s support, not just in certain constituencies but also as a whole.

“We have seen that the BN leadership has been rational all this while as a power-sharing partner in determining the distribution of seats,” he added.

- Bernama

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