Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim appears on BBC World News to discuss the progress made by Pakatan Rakyat since the 2008 General Election and the shortcomings of the RM 60Bn stimulus package announced recently.
OFFICE OF DATUK SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM
Semalam, di Dewan Rakyat, Saudara Gobind Singh Deo, Ahli Parlimen Puchong telah digantung tugas selama setahun selepas cuba mendapatkan penjelasan berhubung tuduhan yang dilemparkan terhadap timbalan perdana menteri. Mengenali Saudara Gobind yang tuntas serta teguh memperjuangkan keadilan, saya pasti beliau akan terus berusaha untuk mendapatkan penjelasan yang sewajarnya.
Menggantung beliau bukanlah jawapan bagi permasalahan sebenar. Penyelesaian terbaik ialah apabila kedaulatan undang-undang, sistem mahkamah yang bebas serta peranan parlimen kembali dipulih. Hanya setelah itu barulah rakyat Malaysia mengetahui perkara sebenar dan menikmati Keadilan untuk semua.
Berulangkali saya tegaskan dalam ucapan tatkala membahas usul menghukum Saudara Gobind bahawa siapa sahaja tanpa kecuali, yang melemparkan tuduhan, apatah lagi dakwaan keras dan berat saperti kaitan dengan pembunuhan mesti bersedia mengemukakan hujah. Dan orang yang disoal atau didakwa, dalam kes ini, Dato’ Najib berhak menafi dan membela diri.
Malangnya dalam kes ini, keadaan anih dan janggal. Gobind tidak diberi peluang berucap atau memberi penjelasan. Dato’ Najib memilih untuk tidak membuat sebarang kenyataan atau penafian!
ANWAR IBRAHIM
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Salam 2 all,
Parlimen hari ini menggantung YB Gobind selama 12 bulan tanpa gaji & elaun akibat kenyataan yg dbuat oleh YB Gobind menuduh TPM sebagai “murderer” dan kemudiannya mengkritik Speaker dengan menyatakan “you should be ashamed with yourself” apabila Speaker mengarahkan beliau keluar.
Saya akui kenyataan YB Gobind itu agak keras dan kasar. Namun satu persoalan yang berbangkit ialah mengapa YB Gobind membuat kenyataan sekeras itu?
Sapatutnya Parlimen melantik satu Jawatankuasa Terpilih untuk menyiasat kenyataan YB Gobind dan memberi peluang beliau membela diri dengan mengemukakan bukti atau saksi untuk membuktikan kenyataan beliau.
From The Sikh Times
A Sikh MP Gobind Singh Deo has been suspended for a year, as he accused the Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak of being involved in a murder case and in contempt of a deputy speaker during the committee stage debate on the Supplementary Supply Bill 2009 on Thursday.
Gobind Singh Deo is a member of Puchong party, the suspension will take effect immediately for a year following the motion tabled by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz
The opposition party walked out as the motion was being announced
MARCH 16 — From Padang Besar to Tanjung Piai and to Kudat across the South China Sea, people are talking about Musa Safri, the disappearance of P Balasubramiam and Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak’s link with the Altantuya Shaariibuu case.
Well maybe not in Parliament anymore after today.
DAP’s Gobind Singh Deo received the full brunt of the Barisan Nasional’s simple majority today when they voted to kick him out of the Dewan Rakyat for a year, hoping the innuendoes and aspersions will go away with his 12-month suspension.
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From NDTV.com
An official motion has been moved in Malaysian Parliament to suspend ethnic Indian lawmaker Gobind Singh for trying to implicate Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in a murder case and will be taken up on Monday.
The motion tabled in parliament on Friday seeks to suspend Singh for 12 months.
It has charged the lawmaker with leveling serious charges against Najib, who is line to become the next Prime Minister and termed it as breach of privileges, New Strait Times reported on Saturday.
The motion suggested a severe action against Gobind for his un-parliamentary conduct.
On Thursday, Gobind asked Najib to reply questions on his links to the death of Mongolian woman death two years ago. A close business associate of Najib was recently acquitted by a court for being involved in the murder of the woman.
From New Zealand Herald
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia’s Parliament voted to suspend a prominent opposition member for one year Monday after he accused the next prime minister of involvement in the 2006 slaying of a Mongolian woman and called him a murderer on the floor of the legislature.
Opposition leaders decried the suspension of Gobind Singh Deo, calling it an abuse of power by the National Front coalition that controls nearly two-thirds of the 222-member Parliament.
Gobind, a well-known lawyer, stunned the lower house of Parliament on Thursday with a tirade against Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is scheduled to become premier in early April.
Gobind wanted Najib to respond to opposition accusations that he had a hand in the killing of a young Mongolian woman in 2006. Gobind shouted “Answer me, you murderer” before Parliament’s speaker ordered him to leave the hall.
From International Herald Tribune
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia’s Parliament voted to suspend a prominent opposition member for one year Monday after he accused the next prime minister of involvement in the 2006 slaying of a Mongolian woman and called him a murderer on the floor of the legislature.
Opposition leaders decried the suspension of Gobind Singh Deo, calling it an abuse of power by the National Front coalition that controls nearly two-thirds of the 222-member Parliament.
From Al Jazeera
Malaysia’s parliament has suspended an opposition member for one year, after he called the incoming prime minister a murderer.
Gobind Singh Deo, a member of the opposition Democratic Action Party, made the comment on Thursday when he shouted “answer me, you murderer” at Najib Tun Razak, the current Malaysian deputy prime minister.
From AFP
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysia’s parliament on Monday barred an opposition lawmaker for one year after he accused incoming premier Najib Razak of involvement in a sensational murder case.
A government motion calling for the suspension of Gobind Singh Deo, from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), was passed after lawmakers from the opposition alliance staged a walkout in protest.
Parliament erupted into a furious row before the walkout as opposition lawmakers who control one-third of the 222-seat house protested against the Speaker’s decision to deny Gobind an opportunity to defend himself.
“How do you proceed to condemn a person without giving him the opportunity even to speak?” said opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim who leads the three-member Pakatan Rakyat opposition alliance.
From Reuters
By Razak Ahmad
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A Malaysian opposition MP was banned from parliament on Monday after he linked incoming premier Najib Razak to the murder of a model, with a second to be prosecuted under the country’s tough sedition laws.
Opposition parties said the ban and the prosecution were signs of the battles that await Najib when he takes the top job at the end of March. They said it indicated he would crack down on dissent when he takes office.
Karpal Singh, chairman of the Democratic Action Party, part of a three-party opposition grouping led by former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, told Reuters that he would be charged on Tuesday with sedition under laws that could see him jailed for up to three years.
“I have been informed by the investigating officer into the case,” Karpal, a human rights lawyer, said on Monday.
