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PSM says Pas supporters attacked its operation centre

Apr 29th, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) says its Kota Damansara’s election operation centre was attacked by a trio of Pas supporters today.

In a telephone interview, its national treasurer A. Sivarajan told The Mole that the office was attacked by three individuals who he claims were from Pas.

When asked if he was sure the individuals were from Pas, Sivarajan said: “Yes, they are Pas members.”

Narrating the incident, Sivarajan said: “Around 2.20pm today, while I was in our bilik gerakan (operations centre) three guys dressed in Pas t-shirts started shouting at us alleging that we took down their party flags.”

“They were asking for our party chairman Dr Nasir’s (Dr Nasir Hashim) number and a few other numbers of our polling officers.”

“We told them to go and make a report to the Election Commission instead of coming to our office and making a big noise,” Sivarajan added.

According to Sivarajan the trio then started taking photographs of the place and left shortly in two cars and on one motorbike.

Sivarajan said he lodged a report about the incident at the Kota Damansara police station shortly after.

“After the report was made, the police came over to our centre and started their investigation.”

He also said that all the five PSM volunteers and himself who were present when the Pas supporters came were not harmed.

“This is actually the second incident…on nomination day (April 20), after Pas has announced to field their candidate in Kota Damansara, we had received a lot of calls and text messages informing us that a group of people were intending to attack us.”

“Fortunately nothing happened,” he said.

Sivarajan has also questioned the motive behind the incident as Pas who has agreed to withdraw its candidate from the Kota Damansara state constituency to make way for PSM’s Dr Nasir to contest under the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) ticket.

He said, ”Pas secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali already said that it will not field its candidate Razali Ismail to contest here and things were all good between PSM and Pas.”

“Yet, the Pas candidate was seen campaigning here, in areas such as the Pekan Subang market and Bandar Pinggiran Subang.”

“This is against the decision of the Pas headquarters, ” he added. Dr Nasir is facing a five-cornered fight against Barisan Nasional candidate Halimatun Saadiah Bohan and three independents Edrus Abdullah, Halmi Omar and A Suppiah.

In the last general election in 2008, Dr Nasir defeated Barisan Nasional candidate Zein Isma Ismail with a 1,075 majority.

There are 44,992 voters in Kota Damansara of which 56 percent are Malays, 29 percent Chinese and 13 per cent Indians.

PAS finally backs down on Kota Damansara seat

Apr 28th, 2013

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SELANGOR PAS has finally backed down from contesting the Kota Damansara state seat after almost a week of posturing and negotiations with PKR and Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM).

“After negotiations, I am announcing that for the Kota Damansara state seat, we shall revert to the status quo as before nomination day.

pas mustafa ali 070413 01 “The seat is allocated to PKR,” said PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali (left) at party headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

As such, he said, the candidate contesting under the PKR banner for the state seat under the Subang parliamentary constituency will be the official Pakatan Rakyat representative.

Incumbent rep PSM chief Mohd Nasir Hashim (below) had earlier reached an agreement to vie for the seat under the PKR ticket, until PAS sprang a last minute surprise by fielding its own candidate Razali Ismail on nomination day.

As in other seats it has conceded to PKR, the PAS candidate will be instructed to stand down and publicly declare that he is withdrawing from the contest, while the party’s machinery will be told to campaign for the specified Pakatan candidate, said Mustafa.

NONE Asked on the possibility of resistance from the fielded PAS candidates and machinery to the stand-down orders, Mustafa dismissed such concerns.

Kota Damansara was one of seven seats that saw PAS and PKR at loggerheads, with both fielding their respective candidates on nominations day last week.

The six other seats were settled early this week, with PAS giving the Labuan parliamentary and Panti (Johor) and Sungai Acheh (Penang) state seats to its ally.

In exchange PKR gave PAS the Seberang Takir, Bukit Besi and Kota Putera state seats in Terengganu.

Kota Damansara was not resolved at the time because PAS claimed ideological differences with PSM was the stumbling block.

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What if DAP had gained power in the May 1969 election?

Apr 27th, 2013

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What if DAP had gained power in the May 1969 election?

After Goh Hock Guan resigned as DAP secretary-general following May 13, Lim Kit Siang ascended the post and remained there for 30 years (1969-1999).

Lim Guan Eng took over from his father in 2004 with Kerk Kim Hock warming the sec-gen seat during the interregnum between Lim Senior and Lim Junior. Aside from two short stints where Fan Yew Teng was acting sec-gen for a year, and Chong Eng was acting sec-gen for half a year, the DAP has been all the while a 1Dynasty show.

While it is true that the DAP is soaring to its apogee, I do not reckon that it’s the Chinese in general who are truly gaining any political power. The Lim Family has demonstrated that they cannot even share power democratically with their own party leaders as evidenced by the recent sidelining of DAP Johor.

Power for the DAP merely resides in the personality cult of the Dear Leader and his coterie of brown-nosing evangelistas. The ‘D’ in DAP has come to mean Property Developer.

Read HERE for the full article: http://helenang.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/what-if-dap-had-gained-power-in-the-may-1969-election/

Source: MOLE

What if DAP had gained power in the May 1969 election?

Apr 27th, 2013

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What if DAP had gained power in the May 1969 election?

After Goh Hock Guan resigned as DAP secretary-general following May 13, Lim Kit Siang ascended the post and remained there for 30 years (1969-1999).

Power for the DAP merely resides in the personality cult of the Dear Leader and his coterie of brown-nosing evangelistas. The ‘D’ in DAP has come to mean Property Developer.

Read HERE for the full article: http://helenang.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/what-if-dap-had-gained-power-in-the-may-1969-election/

Source: MOLE

Karpal wants Anwar to state stand on hudud, Islamic state

Apr 27th, 2013

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Karpal wants Anwar to state stand on hudud, Islamic state

GEORGE TOWN: DAP chairman Karpal Singh is insisting that PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim state his stand on hudud law (Islamic penal code) and the Islamic state pursued by PAS, their ally in the three-party opposition pact.

Karpal said that as the prime minister nominee of the pact, it was incumbent upon Anwar to clearly voice his stand on the two issues.

He said that the plan by PAS leaders to implement hudud and turn Malaysia into an Islamic state had affected the mutual understanding among the allies and admitted that the issues would give an advantage to Barisan Nasional (BN) in the May 5 general elections.

“I think Anwar should clearly state his stand. I think the people are expecting it. (DAP adviser) Lim Kit Siang and secretary-general Lim Guan Eng have stated the party’s stand. They’re not for hudud, they are not for an Islamic state,” Karpal said to reporters here Friday.

Karpal said he was stating his party’s official position.

PAS deputy spiritual adviser Datuk Dr Haron Din had said recently that the party was firm in its plan to implement hudud law if the opposition pact formed the next government.

However Karpal opposed, saying that the DAP was against the formation of an Islamic state which will enforce hudud law.

Source: MOLE

Karpal wants Anwar to state stand on hudud, Islamic state

Apr 27th, 2013

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Karpal wants Anwar to state stand on hudud, Islamic state

Karpal said that as the prime minister nominee of the pact, it was incumbent upon Anwar to clearly voice his stand on the two issues.

Karpal said he was stating his party’s official position.

PAS deputy spiritual adviser Datuk Dr Haron Din had said recently that the party was firm in its plan to implement hudud law if the opposition pact formed the next government.

However Karpal opposed, saying that the DAP was against the formation of an Islamic state which will enforce hudud law.

Source: MOLE

Twist and shout, and the DAP spinned the ROS

Apr 24th, 2013

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Twist and shout, and the DAP spinned the ROS

KUALA LUMPUR: Journalist and blogger Datuk Ahirudin Attan – also known as Rocky – said a letter from the Registrar of Societies (ROS) regarding irregularities in the Democratic Action Party’s (DAP) Central Executive Committee (CEC) elections was professional and to-the-point but was spun and twisted by the DAP’s leadership.

The letter, which was dated 17 April 2013 and signed by Dato’ Abdul Rahman Othman, Chairman of the Election Commission and Director-General of the ROS, said that the ROS had been made aware of a controversy whereby some DAP members were not satisfied with the outcome of the party’s CEC elections last December.

The letter said “the validity of the Democratic Action Party’s Central Executive Committee which was chosen on 15 December 2012 is doubted”.

The letter further stated that non-compliance with the requests made by the ROS could lead to deregistration of the party.

Rocky said the letter was “to-the-point, professional” but was nonetheless given a different spin by the DAP and its leaders.

“Yet it was not just spun, its content was twisted, turned and teared as the Lims cried, cried wolf and cried foul in the hope that the people would forget that it was them – not ROS or anyone else – who mucked up their own little in-house election back in December 2012 and it was their own comrades who lodged a complaint about procedural discrepancies that resulted in 753 party members denied their rights to vote,” Rocky wrote in a post about ‘the letter Guan Eng didn’t want you to read’.

“Even so-called non-partisan observers like Bridget Welsh fell for it when she declared ‘This tactic is perhaps the most blatant. Do they assume that people do not respect fair play? Do they think that Malaysians are willing to accept a process that is unfair’? Did she forget the right of the 753 DAP members to fair play and a process that is ‘bersih’?” Rocky asked.

He added:

“Now, where in the ROS letter did you say the DAP would not be allowed to use its party logo for Nominations Day or/and General Elections?”

Rocky was referring to a decision by DAP leadership to have its candidates contest under the banners of its Pakatan Rakyat partners, PAS and PKR in the wake of the letter from the ROS.

Blogger Dave Avran highlighted a second letter to the DAP from the ROS, dated 19 April 2013, which stated that the party would not be hindered from using its own symbols during GE13.

Avran pointed out that the controversy was caused by the DAP, not by the ROS, and that the latter had taken action because of complaints by members of the party and had “acted based on their standard operating procedure by asking DAP to submit its report on the matter”.

The blogger further wrote:

“There is no issue about DAP not being able to use its rocket symbol as the party is still a valid political party and its symbol is still registered with Election Commission. There is absolutely no issue about whether party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng can issue candidacy letters to the EC as he also served as secretary-general under the previous CEC.

“However, all the above facts have been conveniently spun by DAP to give the perception that the ROS had intentionally wanted to deregister the party.

“In typical DAPster spin, they used words such as ‘despicable’, ‘BN sabotage’, ‘worse than repressive Singapore’, ‘how can we trust their word’ (referring to the Election Commission) as well as questioning the timing of the letter.

“They also put up a drama by projecting themselves as being victimised and therefore having no choice but to use PAS or PKR symbols when in fact there is really no issue about using the rocket symbol.”

Source: MOLE

PSM not to be blamed for seat tussle with Pas

Apr 22nd, 2013

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PSM not to be blamed for seat tussle with Pas

KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) chairman Dr Nasir Hashim said his party is not to be blamed for the tussle for seats with Pas, its ally in the Pakatan Rakyat.

Speaking to The Mole today, Dr Nasir said: “We are not the one who started the controversy on seat overlaps.”

“I won the Kota Damansara seat in the past and naturally I will be defending it,” said the incumbent.

“Besides PSM is a partner in the opposition coalition. This can be avoided.”

In the 12^th General Election, Dr Nasir won the Kota Damansara seat against Barisan Nasional’s Zein Isma Ismail with a majority of 1,075 seats.

For the upcoming polls, Dr Nasir who will be using the PKR banner will face an unlikely foe, Ridzuan Ismail from Pas, when the two parties are supposed to be allies.

The other four candidates vying for the Kota Damansara are Halimaton Saadiah Bohan from Barisan Nasional (BN) and three independents – Edroos Abdullah, A. Suppiah and Halmi Omar.

Apart from Kota Damansara, PSM will contest against its Pakatan partner in Semenyih and Jelapang state seat.

In Semenyih, PSM secretary-general S. Arutchelvan will be contesting against PKR Serdang division chief Hamidi Hasan, and incumbent Datuk Johan Abdul Aziz of BN.

For Jelapang, PSM candidate M.Sarasvathy will face DAP leader Teh Hock Kee and S.Mokan from BN.

When asked to comment on Pas president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang’s remarks that Pas cannot work with people who are a ‘Marxist’, Dr Nasir said: “I am very disappointed.”

“He (Hadi) should know the difference between socialism and communism and why PSM exists in Malaysia.”

In a news report, Hadi reportedly said that Pas is contesting against its Pakatan partner PKR in seven seats to “save” the coalition.

The Star reported Hadi as claiming that Pas discovered some of the candidates fielded by PKR had moral issues while some “subscribed to Marxism.”

“We also know of one candidate who subscribes to Marxism and has posters of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin at his operation centre. I will not mention who it is but PAS cannot work with people like this,” Abdul Hadi was quoted as saying.