The defection of Bota BN state assemblyman to PKR had opened the Pandora box. Pakatan Rakyat thru PKR had inadvertently provoke a tic-for-tat reaction that it may regret.
The Perak State Assembly Speaker V. Sivakumar said he had received two faxed letters stating that Jamaluddin Mat Radzi(PKR) and Mohd Osman Jailu(PKR) had resigned their posts as assemblymen of Behrang and Changkat Jering respectively.
Yet, based on latest statement by Behrang Adun(ex-Adun?) Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi, PKR had used undated pledge of loyalty cum resignation letters to force their resignation as Aduns. He is challenging its validity. He was reported to have said that they are now independent Aduns (mStar online reported that Jamaluddin maintained that they are still PKR Aduns).
PKR is against anti-hopping law - PKR is for hopping - that is the way it want to strengthen PKR within the Perak Pakatan Rakyat coalition government and to seize the Federal Government. There is a possibility this will backfired.
Party hopping of Perak DAP & PKR Aduns to BN is very much possible and in process – its depend on UMNO, MCA, Gerakan & MIC to take advantage of the situation – there is nothing to lose.
P.S.
1. PKR had already implemented anti-hopping in the party in March 2008 with those undated pledge of loyalty cum resignation letters. It practise double standard, BN members can hop, PKR can't. Democracy ala PKR.
2. On current sentiments the possibilities of BN winning Behrang and Changkat Jering state seats are remote.
3. Based on legal precedents in Kelantan & Sabah, the undated resignation letters under duress are illegal.
The Two State Seats Statistics:
N59 Behrang
Jamaluddin Bin Mohd Radzi (PKR ) - 6771 votes
Datuk Ramasamy (BN) - 5744 votes
Spoilt Votes = 512;
Total Votes = 13027
Voter turnout = 70.43%
Majority = 1027
Register voters = 18552
N14 Changkat Jering
Kapten (B) Mohd Osman Bin Mohd Jailu (PKR) - 9411 votes
Dato' Mat Isa Bin Ismail (BN) - 8309 votes
Spoilt Votes = 334
Total Votes= 18054
Voter turnout = 72.85%
Majority = 1102
Register voters = 24864
4 comments:
The right thing to do would be to have the anti-hopping law - if the mp or adun wants to leave his/her party then have a by-election and let the RAKYAT decide again.
Problem is BN despite being in power for so long have not yet done the right thing, but instead have even abused this party-hopping loophole to take over Sabah.
I don't see any problems with undated pledges of loyalty cum resignation letters. It is precisely because BN failed to have the anti-hopping law that has forced PKR to have the pledge in the first placed. If the anti-nopping law is in place, this issue wouldn't even exist.
It is just like when you join a new company you are asked to sign several agreements which you can agree or not agree to abide by before you sign. If you don't agree then don't join. So since they signed, it means they agreed.
And how can the MPs claim that it was signed under duress? When they signed it they have just won under the PKR ticket and should be all fired up to do their job loyally as PKR reps. They had their eyes wide open when they signed it otherwise they could have become independent reps like Ibrahim Ali or defected to BN before signing it. So where is the duress? Want to see duress, look at Bala's face when he signed the second SD and compare it to the first SD. Now that's what I call duress!
Only problem I see is whether or not the MPs have officially resigned or sacked from PKR in the first place. If they had not then the pledges are not yet valid and should not have been used.
I think that it is wrong for you to say that there is nothing to lose if BN takes advantage of the situation. BN would have lost the opportunity to do the right thing (pass anti-hopping law) yet again, and it is precisely this attitude of always putting "staying in power by all means" ahead of "doing the right thing" that has caused BN's massive lost during March 8. Can BN do the right thing this time and reform? Nah. BN, like you, only knows how to take advantage of the situation even if it's wrong to do so.
The ‘King of Frogs’ started it: Dr Koh
By ANDREA FILMER
GEORGE TOWN: While party-hopping rumours wreaked havoc in Perak, Gerakan president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon pointed the finger at the Pakatan Rakyat leadership, saying the “King of Frogs” started the whole affair.
“All this hopping started with Pakatan Rakyat back in April and we (Barisan Nasional) did not start it,” Dr Koh told reporters before attending the Chinese New Year Cultural and Heritage Celebration here Sunday.
“It was slightly over a month after the March 8 general election when they started to talk about getting people from Barisan to hop over.
“I think they started this whole process, which just went on and on. After that, I suppose some Barisan parties ended up saying ‘why not?’.
“It was something that was all started by the ‘King of Frogs’,” said Dr Koh, who is believed to have been referring to PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Asked whether Gerakan would start preparing for a state election in Perak, he said, “I don’t want to comment on something that is still speculative. We will have to look at the later developments before I make any comment.”
Clearly your beloved president have a very short memory. Or maybe he had amnesia after losing too embarassingly on march 8 and his memory only started from then.
Clearly this whole katak thing started when BN stole Sabah from the opposition.
KTK said "After that, I suppose some Barisan parties ended up saying ‘why not?’". That's exactly my point in the first comment. Instead of doing the right thing by lobbying for anti-hopping law, KTK condones what is wrong. Is that his way of reforming BN from within? Then again, what can I expect from a has-been yes-man.
Seems like the one most consistent with his stand on anti-hopping is Karpal.
And have you even wondered how come all the people involved in switching from anti-BN to pro-BN like Bala and the 2 MPs always go missing? Gone to open swiss bank accounts for their coming windfall, or trying to prevent from being altantuya-ed or kugan-ed?
It was the King of Frog that arranged the frogging episodes in Sabah.
He now use his skill for Pakatan Rakyat.
Bala is missing? Huh! I suspect Pakatan Rakyat want him out of sight as a dirty tactic to create confusion and give credance to Pakatan Rakyat propaganda.
The two ADUNs were never missing, they decline to communicate - its their rights.
Swiss accounts? A few Pakatan Rakyat leaders have a lot of these accounts, and more accounts in other countries!!!
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