Media Statement By Lim Kit Siang [ DAP ] - Pakatan Rakyat

Media Conference Statement by Lim Kit Siang at Shah Alam Courthouse on Monday, 26th April 2010 at 9 am:


Would MCA Ministers and Deputy Ministers resign if Najib does not honour his Hulu Selangor by-election promise to issue RM3 million cheque today for building of new Rasa Chinese primary school?

The 1,725-vote majority victory of the Barisan Nasional in the Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election yesterday is a pyrrhic victory for the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak – so devastatingly costly both in political and monetary terms that they lay the seeds for the forthcoming defeat of the Barisan Nasional.

The Barisan Nasional has a bill of over RM100 million for its Hulu Selangor by-election campaign – RM60 million for various infrastructure projects and easily more than RM40 million for the Barisan Nasional election campaigners and the many rent-a-crowd outings for the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and other Cabinet Ministers.

After such outpourings of money politics, the 1,725-vote majority is actually more a defeat than a victory for Najib and the Barisan Nasional.

The UMNO target was to win Hulu Selangor with at least 6,000-vote majority and the Umno leadership was so confident of this huge victory that the Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin went public on this Umno objective mid-day during Hulu Selangor polling yesterday.

The Umno leadership thought that it should not have any big problem, with the RM100 million war chest and the big guns led by the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and former Prime Minister, spearheading the charge in the campaign in Hulu Selangor.

Umno leaders regarded the PKR win of the Hulu Selangor parliamentary seat in the 2008 general election as a fluke-shot, which was why Najib talked about the Hulu Selangor seat being on “loan” to PKR.

In 2008, the three Barisan Nasional candidates in the three constituent State Assembly seats of Hulu Bernam, Batang Kali and Kuala Kubu Baru had polled a total majority of 6,176 votes, but at the Hulu Selangor parliamentary level, the BN candidate G. Palanivel lost the seat to the PKR candidate Datuk Zainal Abidin in a wafer-thin majority of 198 votes.

Palanivel secured 22,979 votes for the Hulu Selangor parliamentary seat, which is 3,285 votes less than the total of 26,264 votes cast for the three BN state assembly seats in 2008.

Najib and Muhyiddin calculated that they should be able to restore this 6,176-vote majority BN won at the level of the three state assembly seats in 2008, but the Hulu Selangor by-election results proved them wrong.

In the event, BN’s P. Kamalanathan secured 24,997 votes which is 1,267 votes less than the total of 26,264 votes collectively polled by the three winning BN State Assembly candidates in 2008.

On the other hand, Pakatan Rakyat’s Zaid Ibrahim polled 23,272 votes yesterday which is more than the vote polled by PKR parliamentary candidate in 2008, i.e. 23,177.

Despite all the odds, PR is making headway while BN is clearly losing ground. The future belongs to Pakatan Rakyat.

Najib said the Hulu Selangor by-election is a test for the MCA leadership, which clearly had failed the test as MCA is the biggest loser in the Barisan Nasional in the Hulu Selangor by-election.

In the 2008 “political tsunami”, MCA secured some 37% of the Chinese votes cast in Hulu Selangor but this has fallen to 25 – 28% in the by-election yesterday.

The immediate question facing the MCA is whether the MCA Ministers and Deputy Ministers would resign if Najib does not honour his Hulu Selangor by-election promise to issue a RM3 million cheque today for the building of new Rasa Chinese primary school?

On the eve of the Hulu Selangor by-election, Najib made the campaign promise in Rasa on a RM3 million approval for rebuilding Rasa Chinese Primary School declaring:

“If we win this by-election, you can come to Kuala Lumpur the next day to look for me. I will write a personal letter to approve the money and it will be transferred to the school board’s account. If we lose, don’t have to come.”

I commend the voters of Rasa for turning in a 82.4% support for Zaid Ibrahim.

Malaysians are waiting to see whether Najib would honour his pledge to sign the RM3 million approval allocation to Rasa Chinese primary school today and if not, what would be the response of the MCA Ministers and Deputy Ministers as well as the MCA President Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek.

*Lim Kit Siang, DAP Parliamentary Leader & MP for Ipoh Timor

Source : Democratic Action Party [ DAP ]

Teoh Dalam Keadaan Sedar Semasa Jatuh, Tidak Dicekik, Kata Pakar Forensik British

SHAH ALAM, 26 Apr- Bekas pembantu politik Teoh Beng Hock berada dalam keadaan sedar semasa beliau jatuh dan telah cuba menahan dirinya daripada jatuh dari tempat tinggi, kata pakar forensik British Profesor Dr Peter Vanezis semasa memberi keterangan pada inkues bagi menyiasat punca kematian Teoh di sini hari ini.

Dr Vanezis, yang dilantik oleh Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) berkata beliau tidak menemui sebarang bukti yang menunjukkan Teoh telah dicekik sebelum kematiannya.

Pada 17 Julai tahun lepas, Teoh ditemui mati di koridor di tingkat lima Plaza Masalam di sini selepas disoal siasat oleh SPRM Selangor yang pejabat suruhanjaya itu terletak di bangunan yang sama, berhubung dakwaan penyelewengan dana kerajaan negeri.

Dr Vanezis dan pakar patalogi Thailand Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand yang dilantik oleh kerajaan negeri Selangor, telah menjalankan bedah siasat kedua ke atas mayat Teoh yang digali semula dari kubur pada November tahun lepas.

"Saya tidak berada dalam kedudukan untuk mengkategorikan sama ada atau tidak si mati telah ditolak keluar dari tingkap secara fizikal semasa beliau berada dalam keadaan sedar," kata Dr Vanezis yang memberikan keterangan buat pertama kali pada inkues itu.

Beliau memberitahu inkues itu bahawa kaki Teoh mencecah lantai terlebih dahulu berdasarkan corak keretakan pada pelvis, paha dan betis.

Kecederaan pada betis menunjukkan Teoh telah cuba menahan diri daripada jatuh, kata Dr Vanezis.

Pakar patalogi British itu yang turut serta dalam penyiasatan punca kematian Puteri Diana, berkata beliau mendapati tiada tanda-tanda kekejangan pada badan Teoh.

"Tidak terdapat tanda-tanda kekejangan dilihat pada badannya. Bagaimanapun adalah mungkin seseorang itu mengalami kekejangan tanpa kesan bengkak ditemui, ia bergantung kepada cara dan paksaan yang digunakan dalam keadaan seumpama itu," katanya.

Berdasarkan pemeriksaannya, Dr Vanezis berkata tiada bukti menunjukkan bahawa leher Teoh telah dicekik.

Kesan bengkak pada bahagian leher merupakan sebahagian daripada kecederaan menyeluruh akibat jatuh itu, katanya.

Inkues itu dikendalikan Koroner Azmil Muntapha Abas.

Bernama

Sumber : Suara-Keadilan.Com

Adun Bukit Lada dilantik Timbalan Speaker Dun Kedah

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Tahniah diucapkan kepada Ustaz Ahmad Izzat Shauki yang juga Naib Ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS Negeri Kedah, diatas perlantikan tersebut. InsyaALLAH amanah yang teramat berat ini akan terlaksana dengan jayanya.

Mohd Shubihi Muhamad

ALOR SETAR, 26 April: Sidang Dewan Undangan Negeri (Dun) Kedah meluluskan perlantikan Adun Bukit Lada, Ahmad Izzat Shauki (gambar) sebagai Timbalan Speaker Dun, hari ini.

Perlantikan Ahmad Izzat dicadang oleh Adun Sungai Limau yang juga Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak dan disokong oleh Adun Pengkalan Kundor, Datuk Ir Phahrolrazi Zawawi dan diluluskan dengan sebulat suara.

Rombakan barisan Exco Kedah baru-baru ini menyaksikan penyandang jawatan tersebut, Adun Ayer Itam, Abdul Ghani Ahmad telah dipilih untuk menganggotai Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan Negeri Kedah.

Pilihan raya umum yang lalu menyaksikan Ahmad Izzat memenangi kerusi Dun Bukit Lada apabila menewaskan Datuk Ariffin Man dari Barisan Nasional (BN) dengan majoriti 208 undi.

Pada ketika ini, Pakatan Rakyat menguasai 20 kerusi di Dun Kedah, manakala BN (13) dan Bebas (dua).

Satu lagi kerusi, iaitu Kota Siputeh masih kekal kosong berikutan Adunnya hilang kelayakan kerana melanggari Undang-undang Tubuh Kerajaan Kedah pada Ogos tahun lalu.

Sumber : Harakahdaily.Net

Terus berjuang, kerja lebih kuat - Nik Aziz

Mohd Nor Yahya

KOTA BHARU, 26 April: Mursyidul Am PAS, Tuan Guru Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat berkata, kekalahan adalah motivasi untuk terus berjuang lebih kuat bukan berpatah semangat.

Perjuangan menegakkan kebenaran melawan kebatilan katanya tidak boleh berhenti selagi manusia itu masih diberi peluang untuk hidup.

“Selagi hidup kita di muka bumi ni masih ada, perjuangan menegakkan syiar Islam mesti diteruskan, Nabi Muhammad saw berjuang selama 23 tahun dan ia harus diteruskan dalam semua aspek,” ujar beliau.

Beliau berkata demikian sebagai mengulas kekalahan tipis Pakatan Rakyat pada Pilihan Raya Kecil Hulu Selangor semalam.

Beliau ditemui media selepas merasmikan program pertukaran Pelajar Muhammadiyah Padang Sumatera Barat dengan Yayasan Islam Kelantan di ibu negeri hari ini.

Biarpun kalah dari sudut undi, namun Pakatan Rakyat jelasnya tetap menang dari aspek moral.

Sokongan pelbagai kaum kepada Pakatan Rakyat jelasnya cukup membuktikan Pakatan Rakyat adalah wadah terbaik rakyat negara ini.

Selain itu kekalahan itu menurutnya menjadikan ikatan antara parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat semakin kukuh berdepan Pilihan Raya Umum akan datang.

“Kita mesti ingat di Malaysia ni walaupun kita kalah dalam pilihanraya kecil tetapi bila masuk pilihanraya umum kita menang,” katanya lagi.

Pilihanraya kecil P.94 Parlimen Hulu Selangor dimenangi calon BN P. Kamalanathan dengan majorit 1725 mengatasi calon Pakatan Rakyat Datuk Zaid Ibrahim.

Sumber : Harakahdaily.Net