Mohan Made MIC Youth Coordinator, Murugesan The Deputy

KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (Bernama) -- T. Mohan, the MIC Youth social and welfare bureau chief, has been appointed the party's youth coordinator following the decision of the MIC Central Working Committee (CWC) to ask all youth leaders who have reached the age of 41 to vacate their posts.
Mohan, 35, a businessman, will have as his deputy lawyer S. Murugesan, who was the youth wing's representative to the CWC, party's highest decision-making body.
MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, in disclosing these details to Bernama, said Mohan and his team would take the advice of the newly set up MIC Youth Advisory Council, headed by former Kahang (Johor) state assemblyman S. Ramis, in carrying out activities and programmes until the MIC Youth elections next year.
Mohan had stood on a Barisan Nasional (BN) ticket in the Batu Caves (Selangor) state constituency in the general election on March 8 while Murugesan was the BN candidate for the Subang parliamentary seat. Both of them did not win the seats.
"The youth wing would now be headed by the coordinator (Mohan). Murugesan will be the deputy. The youth wing, until the party elections next year, will take the advice of the youth advisory council comprising mostly former youth leaders who have passed the age of 40," Samy Vellu said.
He said the party leadership was reorganising the MIC Youth wing in line with the constitutional requirement of the party.
"The constitution says that when a youth leader reaches the age of 41, he must vacate his position. If we do not follow this requirement, then we are only preventing hundreds and thousands of youths in the party from moving up the political ladder.
"And, as such, the decision was made to allow more younger members to join the wing and hold posts. The youth advisory council will further strengthen and oversee the functions of the youth movement," the MIC supremo said.
Yesterday, former MIC Youth chief SA. Vigneswaran announced his decision to quit the party over disagreement with the CWC ruling on the holding of posts by youth leaders who had attained the age of 41.
Samy Vellu said the main task of the youth advisory council would be to recruit as many youths as possible into the party in a bid to strengthen the MIC youth wing.
"This is part of our exercise to strengthen the party. Rebuilding would be the party's priority for the next two years. We will then start preparing for the next general election," he said.
He said Mohan and Murugesan, as their first task, would organise the MIC Youth annual general assembly scheduled for July 6.

tunku : mic should also reorganize its main body by removing it's president. the president has been there for too long and as long as we have the same president up there, mic will never get enough support and may even get worst result comes next GE.