New twist: Keshvinder was ‘blackmailed’
By G Vinod, Free Malaysia Today
KUALA LUMPUR: The latest defection to hit Pakatan Rakyat is shaping out to be a tale of intrigue, peppered with allegations of theft and blackmail.
And as usual, the alleged chief antagonist is Umno.
The plot centres around RM45,000 which purportedly went missing from the law firm of Keshvinder Singh, the Malim Nawar state assemblyperson who quit DAP this afternoon.
While Keshvinder denied Umno having a hand in this, Perak DAP vice-chairman A Sivanesan however claimed otherwise.
According to the Sungkai assemblyman, Keshvinder had related his ordeal when the two met some three weeks ago.
“He told me that one of his clerks in the law firm had embezzled RM45,000 of his client’s money and he was in a fix.
“Unfortunately for him, the news reached Umno. From then on, they used this issue against him and coaxed him into defecting,” he said, adding that he had advised Keshvinder to file a police report.
Sivanesan said that Keshvinder had revealed this to several other DAP leaders, including Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran.
He also challenged Keshvinder to deny that he had informed him and the rest about this issue.
