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The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) will first assess the sentiment of the Indian community before making any decision on joining Perikatan Nasional, says Datuk Seri M. Saravanan.

The MIC deputy president said that as an Indian-based party, MIC will not rush into any political realignment before the views of the Indian community are taken into account, particularly in light of the current leadership of the coalition.

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00:03It was an amazing member of the long working relationship with Tan Sri Mohideen, Samantri
00:09Bursa, Minister of Sports, various positions and until he became Prime Minister. So they
00:15made a decision at that point when Mohideen was a Bursatu chairman, a PN chairman. But
00:22now the past is a PN chairman. We also must check the pulse of the Indian community. We
00:28immediately move anywhere. Being an Indian party, we don't know whether the Indian community
00:34can accept PASS. We have no complaint about PASS leadership. You are okay with them. But
00:39we just have to check the pulse of the Indian community whether they will accept PASS.
00:45And now more or less, we are having all these temple issues and so forth. We must really
00:50get the pulse of the Indian community whether the Indians will need to accept the leadership
00:54of PASS as option. But the considerations remain at this rate. We will talk to everybody
01:00if the option is open but for now we will maintain it by the National. Okay. In a document cited
01:06which was issued in January, there were apparently some preconditions which you had sought. Which
01:12was not a condition. We wanted to know. See, there was an offer at that point. There was an offer
01:17from Tuan Ibrahim from PASS himself, inviting MIC to join them. Then we wanted to know if MIC
01:24joined them. We have an Indian party. What is the option? As it is, they already got an Indian
01:29party with them. And we even wanted the option whether we are going to become a new member or
01:33permanent member or all sorts of things. Which they should have replied instead of accepting us.
01:38I see. So currently it just remains as it is. It is still under its scrutiny. It is still
01:46being studied by the HIC. Yes. But no decision has been made. No decision has been made. No decision
01:51has been made. This has been made here for a while. It will be end. And we know we will
01:54check
01:54the pulse of the Indian community. But what was the declaration made the other day by PASS as
02:00of the claim that you know the announcement that they made. Maybe some miscommunication. We have
02:05sorted it out. Because our source is an inquiry. So it is not an application injury.
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