The Bond mystery in MyPPP

(The Star) – The plot thickens in the Bond saga. Tan Sri M. Kayveas, fondly known as “Uncle Bond”, says he has quit his MyPPP party, but his committee members are saying he has been sacked.

And it has become a chicken and egg mystery. Which came first?

The saga began yesterday morning when Kayveas, the party president, posted his resignation letter on social media, saying that he had relinquished all his positions.

He posted that he had stepped down as the president, the party’s Kuala Lumpur chairman and Perak advisory role effective Monday.

The meeting was held after the party leadership received a letter from Barisan Nasional secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor on Tuesday morning to “caution” the president.

“The letter asked the party to advise the president and not to be involved in the Cameron Highlands dispute any more, as well as to maintain the relationship and keep to the agreements in Barisan,” said Mohan, adding that the letter also said the disciplinary committee should meet over Kayveas’ actions.

The letter also implied that MyPPP could be asked to leave Barisan, should the matter remain unsolved.

Kayveas has been adamant about contesting in Cameron Highlands although Barisan had allocated the seat to MIC. He even threatened to pull MyPPP out of Barisan if he did not get his way.

On April 22, MIC named its Youth chief Datuk C. Sivarraajh as the candidate for Cameron Highlands.

Mohan said Kayveas was sacked for making decisions on seat allocations without consulting or getting approval from the party’s supreme council.

On March 30, MyPPP’s senior leadership met Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to get clarification on the Cameron Highlands parliamentary seat.

Mohan claimed Kayveas had told the party that Najib had instructed him to service the constituency.

“When we met the Prime Minister, he told us that the seat was not ours. He denied instructing Kayveas to service the area.

“The entire party has been there working. This was a waste of our time and resources,” said Mohan.

He added that Kayveas had also arbitrarily written a letter to Najib on April 9, requesting only for Cameron Highlands and giving up other seats that were contested by MyPPP in the last election.

The five seats contested in the previous elections were the Kepong parliamentary seat, and state seats such as Guchil (Kelantan), Pasir Bedamar (Perak), Kota Laksamana (Melaka) and Kota Alam Shah (Selangor).

Mohan said for this election, the party had sent potential candidates to work with the communities in other areas as well, such as Buntong (Perak), Paloh (Johor), Manik Urai (Kelantan) and Cameron Highlands, in the belief that the seats will be allocated to the party.

MyPPP was only allocated one seat – Segambut in the Federal Territories. Datuk Loga Bala Mohan, the party vice-president, will contest in the parliamentary seat against DAP’s Hannah Yeoh.

“Kayveas acted on his own and wrote the letter to Najib without the supreme council’s approval saying MyPPP was giving up those other seats,” said Mohan.

“At the point of time, our people were still servicing these areas so he shouldn’t have acted on his own.

“We deliberated on the issue and unanimously agreed that Kayveas had breached the party’s constitution,” said Mohan.

He said the party leaders went to Kayveas’ home to hand him the letter of expulsion.

“Today (Wednesday) we found his purported resignation letter dated April 23 when he was actually asked to go,” he added.

Asked why the letter posted by Kayveas had a stamp marked “received on April 23” at 1.15pm, Mohan said it was definitely not received by the secretary-general’s office on the mentioned date and time.

Mohan said they only received Kayveas’ letter at about noon yesterday after the supreme council had endorsed the decision taken by the disciplinary committee to sack the party president.

Meanwhile, MyPPP deputy permanent chairman Datuk Samson Maman and former MyPPP national women’s leader Datuk C. Josephine Anne in a joint Facebook post said while members loved Kayveas, the party came first.

“You taught us to be always loyal to the MyPPP, we remain so with MyPPP in our hearts,” read the post.

Samson said Kayveas brought his downfall upon himself, through a “series of ill thought decisions” over the past few days.

“The writing was on the wall when the supreme council almost unanimously decided not to support his proposal for MyPPP to exit the Barisan … the first time ever his directive was rejected.

“He ignored that supreme council decision … and it proved to be his undoing,” Samson said.

Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/04/26/the-bond-mystery-in-myppp-did-kayveas-resign-or-was-he-kicked-out-by-his-own-men/#Ah1pEWb8SFA3g0xj.99