It is no bed of roses for PKR’s Kebun Bunga assemblyman Cheah Kah Peng after the Penang government decided to leave him out of the process of approving and handing out the RM700 one-off flood aid to his constituents. [...]
State assemblypersons are supposed to receive the applications from flood-hit victims in Penang from Nov 20 and approve them. [...]
In a press conference at his service centre at Rifle Range, Air Itam, Cheah said he first received an email on Nov 20 from state secretary Farizan Darus ... [saying] ... he would be “exempted” from all matters related to the RM700 flood aid. [...]
Cheah said he had asked Farizan why he had been left out but there had been no reply.
“Look, I am not talking about ‘I like you, you like me’ politics here. We are here to help the people.
“Any sensible logical or sane government would not stop its democratically-elected rep from helping the people." [...]
Earlier today, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had said the decision to bar Cheah was due to “internal procedural changes” suggested by Farizan. [...]
Cheah said he would continue to help the people of Kebun Bunga, as it was his “God-vested democratic responsibility” to be with them.
“It is the people who voted for me; no other authority can take it away from me or take me away from them.
State assemblypersons are supposed to receive the applications from flood-hit victims in Penang from Nov 20 and approve them. [...]
In a press conference at his service centre at Rifle Range, Air Itam, Cheah said he first received an email on Nov 20 from state secretary Farizan Darus ... [saying] ... he would be “exempted” from all matters related to the RM700 flood aid. [...]
Cheah said he had asked Farizan why he had been left out but there had been no reply.
“Look, I am not talking about ‘I like you, you like me’ politics here. We are here to help the people.
“Any sensible logical or sane government would not stop its democratically-elected rep from helping the people." [...]
Earlier today, Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had said the decision to bar Cheah was due to “internal procedural changes” suggested by Farizan. [...]
Cheah said he would continue to help the people of Kebun Bunga, as it was his “God-vested democratic responsibility” to be with them.
“It is the people who voted for me; no other authority can take it away from me or take me away from them.
I am sorry to read that PKR's Cheah Kah Peng has been, what seems to be, politically marginalised by Lim Guan Eng-led Penang state government which also includes PKR.
But I suspect that bad-blood might still exist between the state government or DAP, wakakaka, and the 'Infamous 5' PKR ADUNs who 'went along' (by abstaining in a DUN vote) with an UMNO motion objecting to reclamation works in the seas off south Penang.
The 5 PKR mavericks were Ong Chin Wen (Bukit Tengah), Cheah Kah Peng (Kebun Bunga), Dr Norela Ariffin (Penanti), Dr T Jayabalan (Batu Uban) and Lee Khai Loon (Machang Bubuk).
What was flabbergasting and very shocking to the Pakatan coalition has been Ong Chin Wen, being the PKR whip in the Penang DUN, (yet) leading a pack of mutinous PKR ADUN to indirectly side with arch-foe UMNO in a motion against the Pakatan state government's projects.
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Ong Chin Wen PKR party whip in Penang Dun, wakakaka |
A party 'whip' was/is meant to herd, even ride roughshod, over any hesitant or naughty party members into toeing the party line on a/any motion, yet we saw in the Penang DUN last year such a so-called PKR party whip riding instead with arch-foe opposition UMNO.
The 'Infamous 5' talked nonsense when they claimed they voted (or abstained) according to their 'conscience', because conscience voting is NOT allowed unless the coalition approves that, when and where ruling coalition members would be allowed to cross the floor (meaning even vote against their coalition stand).
Basically the 5 had either lacked knowledge of proper party (or coalition) parliamentary procedures (which I doubt) or acted rebelliously, and quite treacherously too as even PKR Penang had no warning of their pro-UMNO intentions.
Some observers commented that the '5' had received 'special instructions' from elsewhere (hostile to DAP) which deliberately bypassed Penang PKR leaders.
But that's old hat by now, and I personally feel Lim Guan Eng should no longer marginalise Cheah Kah Peng as he seems (other than his act against the ruling coalition last year, wakakaka) quite a good bloke. Let bygones be bygones.
But one item I just read which fills me with an unpleasant feeling has been Cheah Kah Peng saying (obviously merajuk-ishly) '... as it was his “God-vested democratic responsibility” to be with them' [ie. the people of his constituency of Kebun Bunga].
Cheah, please leave your 'God' out of Penang politics when such 'divine involvement' is too much complicated already in Malaysia. Malaysia or at least Penang is a secular state so omit your God-business from politics. It's your personal issue so keep it that way.
I hope you realise it has been the rakyat-people of Kebun Bunga who vested that democratic-responsibility in you. Don't you ever forget that.
Take your pulpit away with you and store it safely away somewhere in your own home.
Lim Guan Eng's immature act just reinforces a widely-held perception that Lim and DAP Penang more generally is politicising its response to the floods in Penang.
ReplyDeleteFrom passing blame to incomplete Federal Government fund disbursements to unthinking flat denials that hillside developments approved by the DAP government contributed to the severity of the disaster.
It will have no good outcome.
As I said even before the latest, most severe floods, Lim Guan Eng and DAP risks being "flooded out" of Penang if it is seen as simply playing political games over the floods.
Make no mistake -I do not welcome the likely end result, which will be UMNO back in Power in Penang via their Chinese lackeys.
this serpent, the son of the dap snake is indulged with vengefulness and vindictiveness, really pity those that work under him.
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