Former MIC president G Palanivel passes away

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Former MIC president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel passed away at Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL) on Tuesday (June 17).  He was 76.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2mpvupud   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Former M.I.C. President Datuk Seriji Palanivel has passed away. He was 76.

00:07M.I.C. Vice President Datuk T. Murugia told Burnama that the former Natural Resources

00:13and Environment Minister died at Kuala Lumpur Hospital at 8 a.m.

00:17Penang-born Palanivel's political career began in 1987 when he was appointed Press

00:23Secretary to then Works Minister Toon S. Samivelu.

00:26He was appointed as the 8th President of M.I.C. in December 2010, succeeding Samivelu,

00:33who held the position for 31 years. He joined Datuk Seriji Najib Razak's cabinet in June 2010

00:40as the Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities. He was then appointed as a

00:45minister in the Prime Minister's Department in 2011. Palanivel won the Hulu-Silangor parliamentary

00:52seat in the 1990 general election and served as the M.P. for four consecutive terms before

00:59losing the seat in 2008. He returned to Parliament in 2013 as Cameron Hyland's M.P.

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