Stop the Kok and bull story over shortened Dewan Rakyat meet

It is deeply ironic that she issued the statement one day after the Penang assembly met on Apr 17. The session lasted less than two hours.

Lucas Liu 

I read with amusement views from Seputeh MP Teresa Kok lambasting the Prime Minister for shortening the Dewan Rakyat sitting to only one day. She said Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin feared the opposition and slashed the duration by using the Covid-19 outbreak as an excuse.

It is deeply ironic that she issued the statement one day after the Penang assembly met on Apr 17. The session lasted less than two hours. Was Kok too drunk on palm oil to remember that her party DAP controls the Penang government? Is Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow, a DAP leader, also fearful of the opposition?

In Selangor, where Kok was previously an assemblywoman and an executive councillor, the meeting was also held for only one day (March 17). The Kelantan assembly, which met on March 13, convened only for 45 minutes.

The Sarawak assembly is now scheduled to meet also for only one day on May 11, the third postponement due to the MCO.

Does Kok want to see our national leaders congregate to send the wrong message to the public that it is okay to dispense with social distancing despite the outbreak? Does she want the virus to spread among lawmakers, and Ministers, whom the country’s fate rests upon to fight Covid-19? Does she want Parliamentary staff to contract the virus?

As for her claims that Muhyiddin is fearful of the opposition, that’s complete bollocks. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Kok’s ex-boss and Malaysia’s elder statesman, had publicly conceded that it was now next to impossible to dislodge Muhyiddin by way of a no-confidence vote in the legislature.

Even Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had said that tabling a no-confidence motion was not on the table during Covid-19. In fact, Anwar had met Muhyiddin last week in a well publicised meeting to discuss “national affairs”. Kok should know that as such meetings go, there’s more than meets the eye, so please stop playing politics at a time of national crisis!