Murugiah sacking: PPP to suggest candidate for Cabinet post

(The Star) – The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will suggest a new candidate for the deputy minister’s post currently held by Senator Datuk T. Murugiah if he does not appeal the decision within 14 days.

“We’re prepared to lose him as a deputy minister if he does not file an appeal by the end of the 14 days,” PPP president Datuk M. Kayveas said on Monday.

“The post still ‘belongs’ to us and we will suggest a new candidate to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak,” he said, adding that Najiob had agreed to let the party “sort out” its internal issues “on its own.”

The PPP disciplinary board expelled Murugiah and six others on Saturday for allegedly tarnishing the good name of the party and trying to get it de-registered.

Kayveas said then that Murugiah, a supreme council member, was sacked for using his deputy minister’s office in the Prime Minister’s Department to organise a press conference for his personal assistant Dr N.A. Shanmuganathan, and making defamatory remarks against the party and its leadership.