Avoid three-cornered fights: Karpal

Edmund Lee, The Sun Daily

All the component parties in Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition must ensure there would not be a three-cornered fights among themselves in the 13th general election, says DAP national chairman Karpal Singh.

Karpal said the coalition of PKR, PAS and DAP must consider the danger of having this tussle before the election on May 5.

“There must be a compromise among the three parties to make sure it does not happen,” he told a press conference in Air Itam this morning, which saw several market-goers and passers-by supported him when they passed by the area.

Calling for the three-cornered clash “must be avoided” at all costs, the parties should carefully consider this circumstance as there has to be a compromise to be made within the coalition partners, Karpal who is a veteran lawyer pointed out.

Karpal was asked by reporters over a report that DAP is prepared to go for three-cornered fights in Kedah if it is not given the additional seats which the party had been asking for.

Prior to this, DAP deputy chairman Tan Kok Wai had asked PKR to allow DAP to contest the Alor Setar parliamentary seat, Bakar Bata and Bakar Arang state seats. It was reported DAP was upset after PKR de factor leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s announced Kedah legal bureau chief Gooi Hsio Leong as the candidate for Alor Setar.

Nonetheless, there is a possibility of such tussle happening in Sungai Acheh state seat as PAS had announced state PAS Youth chief Yusni Mat Piah for the seat which PKR’s Badrul Hisham Shahrin or better known as Chegubard is to be fielded.

Karpal mentioned there must be a “give and take” among the PR parties to ensure that these fights do not occur in any seats.

On calls for Deputy Chief Minister II Prof Dr Ramasamy to be dropped in the election, Karpal added that the state DAP and its committee comprising of advisor Lim Kit Siang, secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, Tan, and he would be deciding on this matter.