This surely smacks of hypocrisy
IF there is one thing that has become clear from the "Kak Min" CD scandal, it is the fact that Pakatan Rakyat leaders can no longer hide behind the holier-than-thou attitude they have been projecting all this while.
By Sharanjit Singh (NST)
Aminah Abdullah has exposed the kind of intense backstabbing and power struggle that is going on in Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and in the Penang state administration.
But more importantly, she has laid bare the hypocrisy of Pakatan leaders, in the manner they are dealing with the whole affair.
Instead of living up to their competency, accountability and transparency motto, they have resorted to scathing attacks on their former colleague.
She has been labelled as a woman of loose character and given all sorts of names like "Minah Ronggeng" (cabaret woman) in the nightly ceramah that are held in Penanti.
The question that begs to be answered is why is Pakatan bashing Aminah for the dirty deeds committed by its own leaders?
After all, PKR supreme council member Cheah Kah Peng and state executive council member Law Choo Kiang's special assistant Lim Eng Nam had admitted that they indeed did meet Aminah.
Both have admitted that the conversation took place at Aminah's house on May 13.
However, they remained evasive when asked about the allegations against them.
Aminah had accused them of attempting to bribe her and of offering her the post of Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) president and even the deputy chief minister I's post.
The transcript of the audio conversation, complete with the background sound of chickens clucking away, is now widely distributed and available for all to digest.
It is also interesting to note the deafening silence from Level 28 of Komtar on this scandalous affair which has implicated a state exco member.
After all, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was among the quickest to call for Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam's head after the latter was barred from contesting the Umno elections when his agent was cited for money politics.
Lim had then said that Ali should take responsibility for the actions of his agent and resign as Malacca chief minister.
It now remains to be seen if Lim would initiate any action against his own exco member for the action of the latter's special assistant.
