
The status of MIC in Barisan Nasional will be discussed at the coalition’s Supreme Council meeting next year, BN chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today.
Zahid said the matter would not be taken up at Umno’s annual general assembly in January, stressing that any decision involving MIC must be made at the BN level, Bernama reported.
“It has nothing to do with the (Umno) general assembly, because Umno’s (relationship) with MIC is the same within BN,” he was quoted as saying after officiating the Desa Kirana complete package announcement ceremony in Sekinchan today.
It was previously reported that MIC delegates had resolved at their annual general meeting last month to defer a decision on whether the party should leave or remain in BN.
However, MIC president SA Vigneswaran later said all three motions tabled at the assembly, including the one on…