KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 (Bernama) -- After helping the Barisan Nasional (BN) to secure 70 per cent of the Indian votes in Sunday's Bagan Pinang state by-election, the MIC will now concentrate on fulfilling its pledges to the voters, party president Datuk Seri S.Samy Vellu said today.

"It is time to carry out the work so that we (BN) will continue to have the trust of the Indian community," he said in a statement here.

He convened a meeting of party leaders at the MIC headquarters here yesterday and gave them individual tasks to complete.

"We have identified several problems affecting the Indian community in Bagan Pinang and we must be able to resolve them with government intervention.

Samy Vellu said the MIC deployed a different strategy in wooing the Indian voters in Bagan Pinang by dealing with them directly and communication with them in their language and it proved to be successful.

He added that the same strategy would be adopted in the next general election, "and hopefully, we can see a repeat of Bagan Pinang".

However, he cautioned the party against being over confident of the Indian community's support for the BN, saying that thee was room for improvement.

In SEGAMAT, MIC vice-president Datuk Dr S.Subramaniam said the party would remobilise its 3,600 branch chairmen to ensure that the needs of the Indians were taken care of.