In the eye of the PKR storm : He who wields the unsheathed dagger
Here’s the list: Manikavasagam of Kapar, Gwo-Burne of Kelana Jaya, Rashid Din of Merbok, Abdul Aziz Abdul Kadir of Ketereh, Kamarul Baharin of Teluk Kemang, Azan Ismail of Indera Mahkota, Mohd Yusmadi Mohd Yusoff of Balik Pulau, Zuraida Kamaruddin of Ampang, and Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid of Kuala Langat.
The People’s Parliament
You get on a packed bus headed to Taiping.
Same journey for all 50 passengers, but each having their own agenda in wanting to reach that common destination.
The same can be said of the group of 15 PKR MPs, now called ‘G15′ by certain quarters, who are reported to be pushing an agenda to displace Khalid Ibrahim as MB of Selangor.
My sources tell me that G15 actually numbers 11.
Khalid claims to be in the dark about this agenda.
Yeah, right!
As does Azmin, even as he conceals the unsheathed dagger beneath the cloak of political intrigue and deception.
“I don’t know of any move by MPs to start a petition on this matter. I am not denying it, I don’t know. How could I agree or disagree when I have no access to information…I am not part of this so I wouldn’t know, I was not at the meeting, when was the meeting honestly? Let me check with my colleagues” , Malaysiakini reported Azmin as saying of this rumoured uprising.
“If I wanted to pull him down, I would have done it after March 8 general election. Why now? His term is expiring soon, so why now? If that was my game, I should have done it before” , FreeMalaysiaToday reports Azmin as responding to suggestions that he is behind moves to topple Khalid as MB.
Yet, the truth, as known by anyone who is anything in PKR, is that Azmin has long wanted to bring Khalid down, the former coveting the MBship of Selangor for himself even as the dust of the 12th GE began to settle.
PKR’s Elizabeth Wong has called on the G15 members to ‘show their faces’.
Huh!
The truth, again, is that anyone who is anything in PKR knows who they are.
That necessarily includes Anwar.
Indeed, at the just concluded PKR national congress in Kota Baru last month, the MP for Teluk Kemang, representing 10 other PKR MPs, brought to Anwar’s attention their grievances about Khalid’s leadership of the Selangor government, and their demand that Khalid be immediately relieved of the office of MB.
Anwar, I am told, assured Kamarul that their grievances would be looked into and addressed.
The next day, after delivering her presidential address, and at a press conference, Wan Azizah made it clear that Khalid would remain as MB of Selangor.
In her presidential address, she defended Khalid against the criticism leveled at him.
“He has defended the principles of transparency and accountability by chipping away at the wastage and corruption that have become part of Umno’s culture. The courage of the Selangor government in introducing Selcat – exposing all, is the renewal that we can be proud of” , Malaysiakini reports her as saying.
Did Anwar, then, renege on any assurances given to Kamarul? Were there any assurances given to placate the group?
Only Anwar and Kamarul can tell us.
I had sms’d Anwar several times asking to meet in the hope of clearing this with him.
No response.
I guess he’s been too busy.
Now slighted by the president’s defence of Khalid, the group of disenchanted MPs began to make their moves.
And as they did, some from within their ranks, big boys within the party set up who, until then, were said to be aligned to he who wields the unsheathed dagger, either grew somewhat alarmed with the direction the group was taking or came to be viewed with suspicion, given the plot that was being hatched.
Whatever the reason, he who bites, another who holds the party purse strings and one of the party’s v-ps, either withdrew or were dumped from G15.
And in their place stepped in Gwo Burne and Kapar Mike.
So who make up the 11 in G15 now?
Here’s the list.
