NEWS: MIC to virtually woo professionals

IPOH: The MIC is looking to cyberspace to re-brand itself.

Its president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said the party would be using the Internet more widely from now on to reach out to professionals and youths.

“And, for this reason, our leaders need to teach themselves to surf the Net and, if possible, create their own blogs,” he said before opening the Perak MIC convention here yesterday.

Samy Vellu said the majority of leaders at division and branch level were unable to do so, and that the MIC would teach those who were willing to learn.

“Soon, we will be launching our own portal which would allow the people to make complaints and take part in discussions.

“We will also make it compulsory for each state committee to have its own website and to update it daily,” he added

The MIC, he said, would spend RM400,000 to equip some 160 MIC divisions with computers and other equipment for communicating with the party headquarters.