Show some decorum, DAP Johor tells PKR
PKR deputy chairman taken to task for claiming that the Tangkak state seat was merely ‘lent’ to the DAP in the 2008 polls.
(Free Malaysia Today) – The DAP Youth today said that the impasse over seats negotiations in Johor can be resolved if PKR leaders showed respect and not be abrassive in their approach.
Ledang DAP youth chief, Lim Eng Guan, criticised PKR deputy chairman Ng Keng Chuan for for demanding that the DAP ‘return’ the Tangkak state seat to the party.
“Ng said that PKR only ‘lent’ the Tangkak state seat to DAP in 2008. However, we contested in the seat in four general elections since 1990 except in 2004,” said Lim.
PKR contested in the seat in 2004 and was defeated by Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate, Yap Chik Dong, with a majority of 4,927 votes.
DAP contested the seat in the 2008 and was also defeated by BN candidate Goh Tee Tee with a razor thin majority of 295 votes.
Both PKR and DAP have been at loggerheads over seats allocation, among them are the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat and the Tangkak, Johor Jaya, Stulang and Skudai state seats.
Johor DAP chief, Dr Boo Cheng Hau, accused Johor PKR chief Chua Jui Meng of being rude in his attempts to secure the seats for his party.
Chua using BN tactics
Boo said Chua was resorting to BN styled-racist techniques to wrest the Gelang Patah seat from DAP.
Lim reminded Ng that at a dinner event organised by PKR Tangkak in 2009, the latter made an open statement that the Tangkak state seat will be contested on a ‘rotational’ way.
