DAP'S ADVISER"S DEMO OF ARROGANCE AND SELFISHNESS!

I just read this news break from Malaysiakini.com -- yes, it's still free access!:)


Lim: DAP rejects Nizar as MB
Mar 12, 08 8:19pm

While the long-drawn debate on who should be the Perak mentri besar finally came to an end today, an unexpected twist came in the form of DAP leader Lim Kit Siang who said that his party had not approved PAS’ Mohamad Nizar Jamaludin to lead the state.

“The decision to appoint a PAS assemblyperson Mohamad Nizar Jamaludin as Perak mentri besar has caused shock and consternation to DAP leaders, members and supporters,” he said in a brief statement today.

The statement came just hours after it was announced in Ipoh that the Regent of Perak has agreed on Nizar’s appointment.

Earlier Nizar, state DAP chairperson and Sitiawan state assemblyperson Ngeh Khoo Ham and PKR’s Behrang assemblyperson Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi had met with Regent Raja Nazrin Shah.

Ngeh and Jamaluddin were the two other candidates vying for the post.

The three of them later told a press conference that the regent had agreed with Nizar’s appointment as well as the appointment of Ngeh as deputy menteri besar (1) and an Indian candidate - to be named later - as deputy menteri besar (2).

Lim however in a five-paragraph statement released today said that the DAP was only prepared to accept either Ngeh or Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi as Perak mentri besar.

He added that at a March 9 meeting - the day after Saturday's polls - the party leadership only gave approval for the formation of a Perak coalition government comprising 18 DAP assembly members, seven PKR assemblypersons and six PAS assemblypersons.

According to him, the party did not give its consent to the appointment of a PAS leader to helm the state.

Lim ticked off by supporters


Lim also said that as such all DAP Perak assemblypersons would stay away from the swearing-in ceremony for Perak mentri besar scheduled tomorrow.

When contacted for an immediate reaction, Nizar said: “We believe that as a coalition government, all decisions will be collective.”

“We would not respond to comments being made outside the new coalition government," he added.

Previously, Ngeh had told reporters that all three parties would respect the decision of the sultan and cooperate to form the new state government.

Efforts by Malaysiakini to reach Ngeh has been unsuccessful.

Lim's statement has been posted in his personal blog, and it received 100-odd responses from readers within 90 minutes, a majority of which slammed the DAP leader for the decision.


DESIDERATA: I titled this Commentary thus because the latest news development centres around the fact that Lim Kit Siang is an arrogant and selfish politician and he does NOT realise that the Tsunami effect resulting in the DAP's numerous victories was chiefly due to the ANWAR IBRAHIM-PKR FACTOR WHICH CAUSED A BIG SWING IN THE MALAY ELECTORATE FROM BN TO THE OPPOSITION,regardless of which party.And DAP benefited immensely from this factor of "sweeping change".

In such an early stage of an alternative front comprising PKR-DAP-PAS as a coalition government in four out of five Statesnow in their hands -- leaving te fifth Kelantan under traditional PASwith no need for the three-party alignment -- it is sad and depressing for Lim Kit Siang to take such drastic and confrontational moves against PAS-nominated MB. This extract fromMkini's report -- "The three of them later told a press conference that the regent had agreed with Nizar’s appointment as well as the appointment of Ngeh as deputy menteri besar (1) and an Indian candidate - to be named later - as deputy menteri besar (2)" -- shows PKR's implicit support as well as PERAK DAP STATE CHIEF'S.

With such "friends" like LKS within the infant coalition -- not even sworn in yet! -- who needs the enemies from BN with its UMNO, MCA and MIC and others waiting like hungry wolves to pounce for their pound of flesh?

And the following is extracted from rockybru.blogspot.com:

"As the appointment of PAS Assemblyman for Pasir Panjang Mohamad Nizar Jamaludin as Perak Mentri Besar representing the third and smallest political party in the proposed coalition has not received the mandate of the CEC, DAP Perak Assemblymen will stay away from the swearing-in ceremony for Perak Mentri Besar scheduled tomorrow."

I was telling myself, "I don't believe this". Many will be devastated by this turn of events. They weren't even done celebrating the historic victory.

Does power go to everybody's head?

p/s If Kit Siang doesn't take it back, might as well give the MB post back to Umno. BN won 28 state seats in Perak, DAP has 18, PKR has 7 and PAS 6.

DESIDERATA: Well said, Sdr Ahiruddin Atan, (aka as Rockybru), and your Voice is from one not particularly aligned with any specifically political party,(to my knowledge) which is hence more "independent and objective". (Mine, as I have indicated via various ways and channels, is loaded as I have indeed been all along an Opposition member, including the DAP for a long period, and at present a card-carrying member of PKR:)