GE13: PKR hit by yet another sex allegation

(The Star) – PKR has been hit by another round of allegations of sexual misconduct after a photograph of two of its Penang leaders in a compromising position went viral.

Claiming that the picture of him with the woman leader was “superimposed”, Bayan Baru PKR deputy chief Tan Seng Keat criticised it as “gutter politics”.

However, Tan, a municipal councillor, said he would not be lodging a police report following advice from party leaders.

“Certain people are out to tarnish my reputation as the general election is around the corner,” he said in an interview here yesterday.

“I know the leader as we are both in the same party.

“They (party leaders) want me to focus on my role as the elections director for the Bayan Baru parliamentary constituency.

“They don’t want me to get distracted by such nonsense.”

The woman, said Tan, used to be an assemblyman’s aide before she quit in December last year.

“From what I know, she is a piano teacher at a music centre,” said Tan, who is married with two children.

When contacted, the woman accused “opponents of PKR” of being desperate in trying to sabotage the party ahead of the elections.

“I am considering whether to lodge a police report,” she said.

“Even if I do, it will be difficult to trace the culprit,” said the woman, who declined to reveal her marital status or age.

Last week, PKR vice-president N. Surendran had said that the party would investigate images on the Internet that allegedly showed a Kedah PKR official performing an indecent act while chatting with a woman online.

In ALOR SETAR, state PKR chairman Datuk Wan Salleh Wan Isa confirmed that the man was a senior member in the party.

The Kedah PKR disciplinary board, he said, had initiated investigation into the lewd video.