PSM to PKR: Your sacrifice is laughable
PSM claims that it had sacrificed more than PKR to help the latter’s bid to win the GE13.
K Pragalath, FMT
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) today took a swipe at Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim over his “laughable” sacrifice to hand over two constituencies to PSM, further straining ties between the two allies.
“Anwar’s statement that the decision to hand over the two seats – Kota Damansara and Sungai Siput – to PSM is a ‘big sacrifice for PKR’ is so laughable. How can a seat never contested by PKR suddenly become a big sacrifice?” PSM secretary-general S Arutchelvan in a press statement.
“In fact, the only party which did sacrifice was PSM which, after fighting 11 years under Barisan Nasional rule for its logo, has now given it up in the larger interest of Pakatan Rakyat in its bid to capture Putrajaya ,” he said.
Arutchelvan, who is contesting as PSM candidate in Semenyih, was commenting on Anwar’s statement that PKR made a “big sacrifice” in allowing PSM to contest the Sungai Siput parliamentary and Kota Damansara state seats.
“It was a tough decision and we [PKR] have to work hard to win concession from the Pakatan component parties,” Anwar said yesterday.
PSM is contesting the Sungai Siput parliamentary seat and three state seats – Kota Damansara and Semenyih in Selangor and Jelapang in Perak.
PKR has given PSM the approval to contest Sungai Siput and Kota Damansara, but is fielding its own candidate in Semenyih while DAP is putting up its candidate in Jelapang.
In Kota Damansara, PAS is also fielding a candidate against PSM’s incumbent Nasir Hashim. Nasir is facing a six-cornered tussle with Umno’s Halimaton Saadiah Bohan, PAS’s Ridzuan Ismail and three other independents.
Arutchelvan also said that Anwar should not have commented on the PSM-DAP tussle over Jelapang.
