This is the second time I have been invited to address a Rotary Club. Thank you for the honour. Given the times we live in, perhaps it might be appropriate for me to speak about the leadership transition that has been foisted upon us Malaysians.
I say ‘foisted’ because neither me nor anyone in this room had any role or say in the choice of the person who will lead Malaysia next. We were mere bystanders in a political chess game. And yet the transition is a subject of great consequence to the nation, one I would say is of great national interest.
Leadership is definitive; the individual who assumes the mantle of leadership of this nation, whomever that may be, is one who for better or worse will leave his mark on us. His will be the hand who guides us to greater success, or possibly gut-wrenching disaster.
Setelah anaknya digantung tugas semalam, hari ini YB Karpal Singh pula dihadapkan dengan tuduhan menghasut, hanya kerana memberi pandangan profesional berhubung kedudukan Dato’ Seri Nizar sebagai Menteri Besar Perak yang sah. Saya rasa ramai sekali pakar perundangan yang memberi pandangan mereka berhubung isu tersebut, ada yang bersetuju, ada yang tidak.
Episod ini terjadi hanyalah kerana Singa Bukit Gelugor adalah Ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat! Beliau cuba dialahkan dengan kekuasaan milik pemerintah, namun rakyat keseluruhan yang dahagakan Perubahan pastinya bersama wakil Pakatan Rakyat.
Hadir bersama pagi tadi di mahkamah ialah Saudara Kit Siang, Guan Eng, Tian Chua dan saya sendiri. Jelas perubahan yang dicanang seluruh negara adalah kepura-puraan UMNO-BN bagi meraih kembali sokongan rakyat.
Terpalit dengan pelbagai skandal penyalahgunaan kuasa juga rasuah, mustahil UMNO-BN mampu memangkin agenda perubahan. Baru sahaja pilihanraya umum yang lalu, rakyat menghantar mesej kepada penguasa, dan untuk kesekian kalinya, mereka memandang remeh mesej tersebut.
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.
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!
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.
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. Continue reading ‘Hard To Blow Off Stench Allegations’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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