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KUALA LUMPUR, June 29 — MIC Youth chief S.A. Vigneswaran quit the party and challenged his party boss Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu to do likewise today.

Vigneswaran is angered by being forced to step down from office, announcing that he’s never a quitter but is unable to accept his removal from MIC’s top Youth post.

As a parting shot, he advised Samy Vellu to prove that he can survive without MIC or he will destroy the party.

Vigneswaran was the former parliamentary secretary for the Youth and Sports Ministry. He was elected to head the MIC Youth movement in 2002.

Once considered a Samy Vellu blue-eyed boy, his party fortunes suffered a drastic reversal after earning the unwanted tag as MIC’s biggest loser in Election 2008. He was defeated by more than 20,000 votes for the Kota Raja parliamentary seat.