Top MIC leaders today moved to convince members gathered at its annual convention in Kuala Lumpur that the party will not be left behind as Umno moves to formalise its cooperation with PAS.

The leaders, who urged members to embrace the cooperation promoted as a way for BN to return to power, also reassured there was no truth in the "radical" image attached to PAS by its critics.

MIC president S Vigneswaran recounted how he had led a delegation of party leaders to meet with PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang - not long after he was elected president in July last year - and was reassured that there is no issue of PAS being against religions other than Islam...