Like a bumblebee MIC president S Samy Vellu has kept himself busy launching one project after another over the years to help Indians while his deputy S Subramaniam sits pretty like a Barbie doll, watching and waiting.

It is a strange political relationship, the party president running about while his deputy does nothing.

That relationship is now dead as the momentum builds up for the June 24 MIC elections when MIC vice-president G Palanivel takes on Subramaniam.