Shadow Policy Committee

DAP leaders today urged the police to get their priorities right in Teoh Beng Hock's case, who was found dead outside the Selangor Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) office earlier this year. In a statement today, DAP Socialist Youth (DAPSY) chief Loke Siew Fook said the move to investigate Lim Guan Eng over his remarks at the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) convention last week, showed the police lacked sincerity in solving the case. "By lodging a police report themselves against Guan Eng, the Selangor police have given the impression that they are not so interested in solving the Teoh Beng Hock’s case compared with finding faults with Pakatan Rakyat leaders," said Loke who is also the Rasah MP. What the DAPSY chief had stated is right. The police is merely acting in a political motivated anti Pakatan move ir order to curb the influence of our party leaders. The police wanted to scare PKR, DAP and PAS leaders into giving up their quest for democracy in our country. But our ...

The DAP Bagan Parliamentary Liaison Committee would ike to extend our Christmas and New Year Greetings to all our party members and the Christian communities in the Bagan Parliamentary Constituency. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

The Defence Ministry "promised" that it will leave no stone unturned in its probe into the disappearance of a RM50 million F-5E fighter jet engine owned by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF). Therefore, we would like to urge the defence minister Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who is also the Penang Umno liaison chairman to concentrate in his effort to recover the missing fighter jet engine rather than to stepping up his effort to grab the Penang Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman's position from Gerakan's Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon. Datuk Ahmad Zahid, you already lost a jet engine, who knows you will loose our military's surface to air missiles (SAM) or our rocket launchers. In this case, you are not fit to lead nor chair the Penang BN committee, as you had already failed as a defence minister, a ministry that handles national security and military matters.

The Penang Umno liaison committee headed by Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is now demanding the current Penang Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman (who is also the Gerakan president) Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon to vacate his BN position to pave way for an Umno leader to take over the said position. The Penang Umno reasoned that the current chair held by the Gerakan president could no longer command the state BN coordination committee effectively as the party had lost all its state assembly and parliamentary seats to PKR and DAP in the last general elections. Besides, the Penang Umno is also urging the BN supreme council to appoint the new chair of Penang BN from amongst Umno leaders as soon as possible to enable it to function effectively. The BN said they are being fair to their component parties all these while, but what we saw recently was Umno again took advantage by flexing their muscle against the already weakened Gerakan in Penang. Come on Gerakan! Are you going to continue staying in the BN f...

槟首长林冠英点名首相署部长丹斯里许子根，“相信”他是不会反对中央政府向人民征收消费税！ 他甚至点名已没在国会出现的国大党主席拿督斯里三美威鲁，也同样会支持这项政策。 他强调，尽管众国阵领袖会支持这项政策，但民联则坚持反对到底，因为中央政府宁愿不向涉及贪污舞弊的人开刀，反选择加重人民的负担。 筹募活动基金晚宴 他于周四晚上出席由该党巴都丁宜支部主办的“勇于承担，服务社群”筹募活动基金晚宴上致词时，这么说。 另外，他周五早上出席2010年槟州商贸年历推介礼时，分析指中央政府为增加10亿令吉而向人民征收消费税（商家也可省下54亿令吉），那么1000万个员工每个人每年就须缴付640令吉，才能达致64亿令吉。 他认为，中央政府这么做是非常不利人民，这项政策不符合公众利益。 该支部主席吴如龙认为“创业难、守业更难”，党员不要再追究前朝政府的错失，更不要舞弊和贪污，目前必须要勇于承担及服务社群。

The Pakatan Rakyat has agreed to a common policy to form a Royal Commission to deal with religious issues. According to its Common Policy Framework document released today, the coalition of three parties will also defend the position of Islam as the religion of the federation, as provided for by the constitution. “Pakatan Rakyat vows to set up a comprehensive mechanism to provide just resolution to cases which involve the overlap of civil and syariah laws, including a Royal Commission to deeply study all relevant issues,” said the policy statement expected to be endorsed by some 1,500 coalition PR convention delegates later today. The proposal is seen as a giant step forward for PR as similar proposal — to set up the Inter Faith Commission (IFC) by the Malaysian Consultative Council Of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism (MCCBCHS) in 2001 has been fiercely opposed by many Islamist groups including PAS, a PR leading partner. Today, PR also pledged to organise more dialogues an...

DAP leaders today challenged leading Barisan Nasional (BN) parties, Gerakan and MCA, to make their stand known on Umno’s decision to lift the suspension of controversial Penang warlord Datuk Ahmad Ismail. “Are they willing to quit Barisan Nasional?” asked Ipoh Barat MP M. Kulasegaran. Yesterday, The Malaysian Insider reported that former Bukit Bendera Umno chief, Ahmad, who was suspended in September last year for uttering a racist remark, has been reinstated into the party last Friday. “I am not shocked at all by the decision,” Kulasegaran told reporters in Parliament here. Bukit Bendera MP Liew Chin Tong wondered what message Umno is trying to send when lifting the suspension. “I want to know the view of Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon as the minister in charge of national integration, and what message Umno is sending,” said Liew. While Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua said the decision indicates that Umno is not serious in adopting the 1 Malaysia concept. “Is Umno still holding on to its Ketuan...

Malaysiakini ~ Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim) menggesa kerajaan memberi lebih perhatian kepada bukan Islam, termasuk menambah peruntukan untuk rumah ibadat mereka. "Kita memahami apa yang disebut (oleh DAP), dan (ia) bukan berhasrat untuk mempertikaikan agama Islam," kata timbalan presidennya Amidi Abd Manan kepada Malaysiakini. "Jadi kita menggesa kerajaan memberi perhatian yang lebih kepada bukan Islam." Beliau diminta mengulas kontroversi kenyataan ahli parlimen Taiping, Nga Kor Ming, di Parlimen berhubung peruntukan besar kerajaan dalam membina rumah ibadat Islam dan tetapi kecil sahaja peruntukan untuk bukan Islam. Kenyataan Nga, juga setiausaha DAP Perak, itu merujuk jawapan seorang menteri bahawa kerajaan memperuntukkan RM748.26 juta untuk membina dan menyelenggara 611 masjid tetapi hanya RM9 juta diagihkan untuk tujuan agama bukan Islam, iaitu 1.2 peratus sahaja. Susulan kenyataan tersebut, beberapa tokoh dan NGO mempertikaikan Nga dengan alasan beliau...