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KUALA LUMPUR: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the party was confident of 100 per cent success in the coming general election.
"We come from a race where we don't back out. We fight our enemy until the very last, whoever it is. We will show the BN that we will win in the end," he said in his opening address at the one-day special MIC convention yesterday.
In the last general election in 2004, MIC won all nine parliamentary and 19 state assembly seats it contested.
Yesterday's convention was to discuss a systematic approach to optimise MIC resources, how to retain its political strength and strategies as well as on contemporary approaches to win the hearts and minds of the voters.
He called on the branch chairmen to draw a 20-day visit programme and mobilise each branch committee member.
"Target each MIC branch member and secure his vote for BN. Second, mobilise women, Youth and Puteri to identify voters and go on a door-to-door visit to meet every registered Indian voter."
He also told the branch chairmen not to allow certain groups to deny the MIC's contribution.
"There are groups claiming that they represent the Indians. They want to take over the duty of the politicians.
"Politicians are politicians and businessmen are businessmen. Businessmen do business, not politics. You mix up everything together, you do nothing well."
On the issue of religious and cultural rights, Samy Vellu said both were protected by the MIC and "not by anybody else".
"We will protect the temples, get them the land and money. We will do everything that is necessary. We are the guardians of the temples. But, we don't brag about it."
He said MIC had secured the support of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and other BN leaders to stop the demolition of temples.
He added that the latest initiative of MIC was the establishment of a Hindu Temple Religious Council at state level which was recognised by the state governments.
He said the number of temples in the country was 26,000 and not 36,000 as some people claimed.
"You can take 36,000 pictures of a temple from different angles. One temple can be photographed 10 times to make it look like 10 temples. I have been a politician for the past 29 years and I have visited every temple.
"If we have done one or two things, I can tell you like I made an appam or a thosai. But we have done thousands and thousands of things for the community," he said, responding to queries by some people on what the MIC had done for the community.
He said the MIC had produced about 3,600 doctors and 345 lawyers but many were shy to admit that they had benefited from MIC.
He added those who had benefited from MIC were selfish.
"They do not come out and contribute for the betterment of their community."
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