This episode of political power ‘hostile takeover’ in Kinta Valley really illustrated the true picture who the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders really are; power crazy maniacs. They simply refuse to muck it in and concede when the game is over.
The Star has the story:
Friday February 6, 2009
Pakatan tries to cling on as Palace prepares to swear in new MB
WHEN it rains, they say, it pours. It rained in Perak yesterday. And it was a deluge, as drama after drama unfolded all over the state’s capital.
On one hand, Barisan Nasional confidently formed the new government with the Sultan’s blessing, and even named Pangkor assemblyman Datuk Dr Zambry Abd Kadir as its new Mentri Besar.
It has arranged for a swearing-in ceremony at Istana Iskandariah in Kuala Kangsar at 3pm today.
Yet, Pakatan Rakyat has stubbornly refused to admit defeat and will not give up its hold over Perak.
In a ridiculously-packed press conference in the evening, an indignant Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin said he was still the legitimate Mentri Besar of Perak.
“We will not resign as ordered by the Sultan. We are still the legitimate government. I will go to work as usual tomorrow,’’ he said.
It was clear from conversations with all Pakatan assemblymen and aides that they would valiantly hold fast to their posts and would not go down without fighting.
Everywhere in the city yesterday night, police sirens blared. Barricades were set up to block people from crowding the streets.
Despite this however, hundreds, if not thousands, took to the streets, showing their unadulterated anger over the unexpected twist of events.
And from the look of things, the flared tempers and high emotions will not simmer down any time soon.
Ironically, when it all started over a week ago, everything was brushed aside and misconstrued indignantly as, in the words of senior exco member Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham, rumour-mongering started by the media.
Two days ago, however, reality slapped the Pakatan government hard in the face.
After Barisan claimed it had the numbers to form the Government on Wednesday, Pakatan almost seemed like it had been beaten at the defection game.
Yesterday, the Pakatan folk put on their bravest fronts and insisted that they were winners.
High-powered meetings with the top brass in Pakatan were held on one side while similar meetings were held amongst Barisan members on the other side.
At the State Secretariat building, more events unfolded.
The police and the Federal Reserve Unit cordoned off the building while State Secretary Datuk Dr Abdul Rahman Hashim asked Nizar, all the state excos and their personal assistants to leave immediately and surrender their keys, both to their offices and their spanking new Toyota Camry cars.
Given the events, it should have spelled the end for the Pakatan but it did not.
Besides declaring that they were still in power, top Pakatan leaders said they would again seek an audience with Sultan Azlan Shah and plead with the latter to dissolve the state assembly.
Will the Sultan give in however, after clearly agreeing to a new Barisan government in Perak? Talk is rife that the answer would be a resounding “No”.
After a week of fierce fighting, Barisan has finally drawn the curtains close over the Pakatan government.
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Earlier on Wednesday, the DAP-puppet PR MB Dato’ Seri Mohd. Nizar Jamaluddin sought audience with HRH Paduka Seri Sultan of Perak and requested for the dissolution of the Perak State Assembly, to pave way for a new state level elections. This was a desperate attempt for PR to have the remote chance of trying to cling into power.
The Star reported:
Thursday February 5, 2009
Nizar leaves fate of govt in Sultan’s hands
IPOH: Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin failed yesterday to get the royal consent to dissolve the state assembly and call for fresh elections.
After a one-hour-and-40-minute meeting with Sultan Azlan Shah in Istana Kinta, a serious-faced Nizar emerged at 5.35pm and told reporters waiting outside the palace gates: “I have sought an audience with the Sultan and requested for the dissolution of the state assembly. I will leave it to him to decide whether to allow the dissolution.”
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The put the fact into place, DAP-puppet MB Nizar actually announced it to the Press about the dissolution, even before getting the perkenan (consent) from HRH Paduka Seri Sultan. Eventually, when HRH Paduka Seri Sultan found no merits for a dissolution and convinced that Barisan Nasional (BN) has the majority support of the Perak State Assembly to form a new State Government, DAP puppet MB Nizar and State Exco simply defiant to Tuanku’s titah and refused to concede.
In short, DAP-puppet MB Nizar never did mean when he said that he would accept whatever HRH Paduka Seri Sultan’s decision, upon the former presenting his case. He had only one wish and when he failed, he chose to derhaka (this what MB Nizar admitted at the Press Conference yesterday afternoon) and ingkar to Tuanku’s titah. The is even a report that DAP-puppet MB Nizar and his band of ‘political bandits’ even “willing to fight to the last drop”.
All of these just simply proved a point; Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders are no gentlemen at all. They will go back against their own words in their sordid madness for power and eventually commit ingkar and derhaka. This is very unacceptable.
This ingkar towards titah Tuanku should be viewed nothing less than as serious insubordination and attempting to commit crimes against the State Constitution. Some even likened it to treachery. This is what PR is really made of; a bunch of people who will do anything, even manipulate and antagonize the law and sovereign just to be in power.
HRH Paduka Seri Sultan should consider revoking the Datukship from now deposed DAP-puppet MB Nizar and Perak DAP Chairman Dato’ Ngeh Koo Ham. Party-less Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is also one time convict for abuse of power and now is the leader of the street-mob movement to rally the rakyat against HRH Paduka Seri Sultan of Perak (because of the decision to sack DAP-puppet MB Nizar and appoint a BN MB) also holds a Perak state investure award. The State Secretary should consider this and present it to HRH Paduka Seri Sultan, as an act to protect the maruah of a Sovereign Ruler and a lesson to defiant politicians who understand no boundaries of respect and protocol.
For the record, DAP-puppet MB Nizar and Perak DAP Chairman Ngeh were invested with their Dato’ship last April, on HRH Paduka Seri Sultan’s birthday celebrations. This is the first time a leader of the chauvinistic and anti-Malay/Islam party DAP is being honoured with such a high state award by a Sovereign Ruler, in respect of their position as an elected representative and member of the state government. The DAP’s chauvinistic and anti-Malay/Islam stance lately had been very apparent and now becoming more blatant.
This should be a lesson learnt for all Malaysians. Regardless what the shortfall of others in the management and poor implementation of policies, Kurang Ajar and Derhaka against HRHs is something never they are able to do!
*Updated 1015am
The blatant derhaka and ingkar is very apparent.
The Star has an update:
Published: Friday February 6, 2009 MYT 10:10:00 AM
Updated: Friday February 6, 2009 MYT 10:13:27 AM
Perak: Nizar and his excos enter state secretariat
By SAODAH ELIAS
(9.50am) Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin, ordered by the Perak Sultan to quit as MB, entered the state secretariat building in his state issued new Toyota Camry. He was allowed to pass through the police barricade on the main road leading to the building. He then stepped out of the car to ask the guard at the main gate to let him in. His excos were also allowed in.
*Updated 1245pm
The story of the blatant derhaka and ingkar people complicates further. The Police had to step in, intervene into a Press Conference by the recently deposed DAP-puppet MB Nizar and escort him out of the State Secretariat building.
The Star has an update:
Published: Friday February 6, 2009 MYT 10:45:00 AM
Updated: Friday February 6, 2009 MYT 12:28:44 PM
Police have secured Perak state secretariat: CPO
By LOURDES CHARLES
IPOH: Police have secured the state secretariat building.
Perak CPO Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said this was following a request by the state secretary.
“We are there to help facilitate the transition of power and to ensure the smooth running of the government machinery.
“We will also take the necessary steps to ensure the swearing in of the new mentri besar takes place as planned,” he said.
DCP Zulkifli said the security situation was well under control and urged the public to carry on their activities without worry and urged them not to be concerned by the heavy police presence and roadblocks.
Meanwhile, Bernama reported that Jalan Raja Nazrin Shah, from the roundabout in front of the menteri besar’s house to the flyover at the Medan Gopeng junction, would be closed to traffic until 7pm Friday.
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This is how derhaka and ingkar people actually behave. The Police had to be deployed to make them adhere to the Tuanku’s titah. They simply don’t understand simple instructions and protocol of matured and civilised people. In short, people like this shouldn’t be trusted to lead in the first place. Their blatant disregard for anything but what they feel like doing is so clear.
BN has lost State Government before. Back 1990 when PAS took over Kelantan, 1999 when Terengganu fell to PAS and 2008 saw the capital cities of Shah Alam, Ipoh, Georgetown and Alor Setar changed power. Never before, a defeated BN MB or CM needed to be escorted out of his office by Police in such a manner.
Isn’t this utmost shameful?
*Updated 256pm
Now it seems that these PR derhaka and ingkar lot really don’t know where to stop. They now wants to take the HRH Paduka Seri Sultan to court!
The Star has an update:
Published: Friday February 6, 2009 MYT 2:43:00 PM
Updated: Friday February 6, 2009 MYT 2:46:07 PM
Pakatan warns of legal action against Perak Sultan
KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Rakyat will take legal action against the Sultan of Perak and Barisan Nasional if they persist in appointing a new BN mentri besar, s at Istana Iskandariah in Kuala Kangsar on Friday, DAP chairman Karpal Singh said.
He said Pakatan had no option but to take the action because the removal of Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin by Sultan Azlan Shah, pursuant to Article 16 (6) of the state constitution, was clearly ultra vires the provision of that article.
”In law, the decision of the Sultan of Perak can be questioned in a court of law. I call on the Sultan to cease and desist from appointing a new Barisan MB and executive council later this afternoon,” he told a news conference here on Friday.
Karpal Singh said that this action should in no way be constituted as a threat to the Sultan but a was firm reminder that the Ruler was required to act within the parameters and confines of the constitution of the state of Perak, which is the supreme law of the state. – Bernama
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These derhaka and ingkar people now should be exiled (buang negeri) from the Perak state!
Is the fashion and brand of KETUANAN RAKYAT which party-less Opposition Leader and former power abuse ex-convict Anwar Ibrahim and his band-of-political bandits Pakatan Rakyat leaders talked about all these while????
*Updated 515pm
The play-by-play game of derhaka and ingkar people, way beyond immaturity, who are actually acting like ‘political barbarics’:
Published: Friday February 6, 2009 MYT 10:10:00 AM
Updated: Friday February 6, 2009 MYT 4:57:55 PM
Perak Update: Nizar refuses to quit MB post
04:30pm Nizar has refused to resign as Menteri Besar on the conviction that he still legally holds the post under the Perak State Constitution.
04.05pm Dr Zambry is sworn in as the new Mentri Besar of Perak after receiving his letter of appointment from Sultan Azlan Shah and taking his oath of office.
03:35pm Speaker V. Sivakumar said that he has faxed and personally handed in two letters to the Sulatn of Perak seeking permission to convene an emergency state assembly meeting and to postpone the swearing in of the new mentri besar.
03:30pm Protesters are thinning. But some are still refusing to leave even after PAS executive secretary Khalid Rahman Abd Samad appealed to them to disperse.
03:00pm Barisan entourage, heading towards Istana Iskandariah for the swearing in of the new Mentri Besar, has managed to clear the protesting Pakatan crowd and is heading to the Istana. A young boy who fainted after being hit by tear gas was rushed to hospital in an ambulance.
02:45pm FRU fire tear gas into thousands of Pakatan protesters outside Masjid Ubudiah along Jalan Bukit Chandan near Istana Iskandariah in Kuala Kangsar. Police start making arrests. Some in the crowd are pelting cars making their way to the Istana.
01:05pm DAP Chairman Karpal Singh said that the Sultan of Perak had acted beyond the powers conferred to him in dismissing the state government of Nizar. He said that Nizar will file a suit against the Sultan and the new state government at the Ipoh High Court on Tuesday if the new Barisan government takes power.
12:20pm Perak state assembly speaker V. Sivakumar said that he will write to the Sultan of Perak by 3pm to seek permission to convene an emergency state assembly sitting and to postpone the swearing-in of the new mentri besar at Istana Iskandariah, Kuala Kangsar
12:15pm DAP’s Nga Kor Ming told reporters that Pakatan Rakyat will go on a statewide roadshow to explain to the people the situation and swore that Pakatan will return to power in Perak.
10:45am Perak CPO Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said police have secured the state secretariat building following a request by the state secretary to ensure the smooth transfer of power.
10:40am Nizar left the state secretariat building saying that he has been allowed to keep his car until the new mentri besar Datuk Dr Zambry Abd Kadir is sworn in at 3:30pm.
10:15am Nizar was escorted out of his now emptied room at the state secretariat by Ipoh OCPD Azisman Alias who also stopped Nizar from giving a press conference in the room.
09:50am Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin, ordered by the Perak Sultan to quit as MB, entered the state secretariat building in his state issued new Toyota Camry. He was allowed to pass through the police barricade on the main road leading to the building. He then stepped out of the car to ask the guard at the main gate to let him in. His excos were also allowed in.