‘Apologise or hell will break loose’
A DAP leader has called on P Ramasamy to apologise to Karpal Singh with immediate effect.
(Free Malaysia Today) – Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy must apologise for labelling Karpal Singh as a party godfather.
Or else all hell would break loose during the party’s state convention this Sunday, warned Seri Delima DAP assemblyman and Karpal’s protégé RS Nethaji Rayer.
Rayer also chided Ramasamy for being ignorant of Karpal’s immense contributions over the past 45 years.
“Withdraw your remarks and apologise to Karpal publicly,” he told the academic-turned-politician
If he fails to do so, Rayer insisted that the party consider taking disciplinary action against Ramasamy.
“Karpal is the party national chairman.
“Ramasamy should not hit out in the press that the party does not need godfathers.
“He should retract his statement and stop behaving like a warlord.
“If he can’t show respect, he is not fit to be the DCM,” he told reporters here.
‘Don’t forget the past’
Rayer also accused Ramasamy of being absent- minded, conveniently forgetting that if it was not for Karpal’s intervention, he would not have been appointed as DCM.
Rayer said he was present at the Penang General Hospital when Ramasamy visited Karpal there after the 2008 general election.
He claimed that Ramasamy practically begged Karpal to get him appointed as DCM.
He said Ramasamy was appointed as DCM only after Karpal spoke to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
“Don’t forget that Prof Rama. Don’t be kacang lupakan kulit,” he said.
Rayer said veterans like Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal and Ipoh Timur MP Lim Kit Siang were godfathers due to their sacrifices and contributions.
He said Karpal and Lim underwent various tribulations including being detained under the Internal Security Act, charged with sedition and other cooked up allegations.
On the contrary, he said Ramasamy had no such battle scars.
Unprecedented announcement
Rayer noted that the current controversy was caused by Ramasamy’s unprecedented announcement regarding his choice of candidates for the next election.
On Nov 28, Tamil newspaper Makkal Osai published Ramasamy’s ”announcement” that the party will field three Indian women – D Kamachi, P Kasturi (daughter of the late DAP stalwart P Patto) and an unknown lawyer from Penang, K Mangaleswari.
Ramasamy was also quoted as saying that parliamentarians M Kulasegaran (Ipoh Barat), Gobind Singh Deo (Puchong), Charles Santiago (Klang) and M Manogaran, and assemblymen A Sivanesan (Sungkai), A Sivasubramaniam (Buntong), V Sivakumar (Tronoh) and P Gunasekaren (Senawang) were certain of contesting in the coming general election.
