DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Sultan Perak harus berhenti bernostalgia.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Sultan Perak harus berhenti bernostalgia.

Hari ini sekali lagi DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Sultan Perak Sultan Azlan Shah, bertitah menyentuh mengenai hak Raja - Raja Melayu dan Perlembagaan Negara.(sila klik sini untuk membaca lanjut)

Di kesempatan ini che'GuBard ingin merafak sembah memohon agar ke bawah Tuanku berhenti terlalu bernostalgia.

Sistem beraja dalam negara ini dikenali sebagai 'Raja Berpelembagaan' , ertinya Hak dan Kedaulatan Raja - Raja Melayu dipelihara dalam Perlembagaan Negara. Begitu juga hak bahasa, hak bangsa Melayu dan seumpamanya. Perlembagaan merupakan dokumen penuh 'roh' yang menjamin sistem dan kelicinan perjalanan negara ini dengan menjamin hak dan kebebasan tiap individu. Perlembagaan yang sama jugalah menjadi tiang seri memastikan sistem beraja (Raja - raja Melayu) mampu menjadi payung teras memayungi rakyat semua dan menjadi tiang seri agama dan bangsa.

Persoalan adakah Raja Melayu, hak agama, bangsa mahupun bahasa kian terhakis, jawapannya ialah YA !.... untuk menghakis hak yang dijamin perlembagaan tersebut perlulah perlembagaan itu dipinda. Perlembagaan hanya boleh dipinda dengan majoriti dan kelebihan di Parlimen Malaysia. PAS mahupun KEADILAN tidak pernah menikmati majoriti dalam parlimen untuk meminda perlembagaan tersebut, begitu juga DAP. Umno dan Bn (atau dulu Perikatan) yang menikmati kuasa majoriti di Parlimen dan merekalah yang telah meminda beberapa kali perlembagaan hingga menghakis hak termasuk hak dan kedaulatan Raja - Raja Melayu.

Parti yang berimej parti ekstremis Melayu itulah sendiri yang menghakis hak orang Melayu. Kali terakhir apabila tahun 1994 seluruh media dalam negara untuk 'menfitnah Raja Melayu'. Bukan selindung lagi....ingatkah kita TV3, Utusan, RTM dan lain - lain digunakan untuk memberikan persepsi buruk kepada raja Melayu...Sultan Kelantan mencuri kereta sendiri, Sultan Pahang kaki judi, Sultan Johor 'gangster', Yang Di Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan 'kaki arak'...begitulah kurang ajarnya media yang mendokong Umno...Raja Melayu dimalukan...rakyat diberi persepsi salah dan Umno telah meminda perlembagaan meragut hak Raja - raja Melayu ketika itu dengan pindaan perlembagaan di Parlimen.

Ingat ia kerja Umno bukan DAP!!

Umno (baca Mahathir) membuat semua ini kerana ingin menghadkan kuasa raja kepada kuasa 'upacara sahaja', dan selebihnya dikendalikan oleh parti pemerintah.

Menyedari hakikat Raja - raja melayu sudah hakis daulat dan hak maka Kongres Nasional Keadilan 2008 yang dihadiri oleh Melayu, Cina, India, Iban, Dayak dan semua kaum di negara ini telah meluluskan resolusi perlunya ada satu usaha serius untuk mengembalikan kedaulatan dan hak raja - raja Melayu agar sistem beraja ini mampu memainkan peranannya semula sebagai payung kepada semua rakyat negara ini.Begitulah dakwah Parti Keadilan Rakyat kepada semua rakyat. Raja adalah milik semua, raja harus dihormati bukan sahaja Melayu tetapi Cina, India, orang Asal atau apa kaum saja yang duduk dalam negara ini, barulah Raja Melayu punya daulat dan keistimewaan di mata rakyat.

Kembali kepada titah DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Sultan Perak, patik merafak sembah agar Tuanku tidak terlalu bernostalgia. Sebaliknya lihatlah kuasa rakyat sebagai teras kuasa dalam negara ini, namun kuasa rakyat ini memerlukan payung Tuanku untuk terus hidup sentosa dalam negara tercinta ini.

Jesteru itu jika Tuanku berjaya mengembalikan dan memperkasakan kuasa rakyat percayalah kedaulatan Raja Melayu juga akan kukuh dan dimuliakan.

Ingat sejarah ketika Raja - Raja Melayu ditipu oleh Mc Micheal, rakyat bangkit menentang, memerdekakan dan mengembalikan kuasa ke dalam Istana. Kuasa Rakyat yang kuat menjamin Raja yang berdaulat.

Akhir sekali Tuanku fahamilah Umnolah yang telah banyak kali mengkhianati raja Melayu.

Ampun Tuanku beribu ampun.

Badrul Hisham Shaharin

http://chegubard.blogspot.com

Kenyataan Media AMK Kedah

KENYATAAN MEDIA ANGKATAN MUDA KEADILAN KEDAH
16hb Februari, 2009

PERBUATAN KHIR TOYO BUKTI UMNO BANGKRAP IDEA

Angkatan Muda Keadilan negeri Kedah mengecam tindakan memualkan dan tidak bermoral segelintir individu yang menceroboh kehidupan peribadi ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Bukit Lanjan, YB Cik Elizabeth Wong dengan menyiarkan gambar-gambar peribadi beliau yang diambil tanpa kerelaan dan tanpa kesedaran beliau. Yang lebih memualkan ialah, perbuatan terkutuk ini didalangi individu dengan niat bermotifkan politik dan seolah-olah mendapat sokongan dari Dr Khir Toyo, bekas menteri besar Selangor dan calon Ketua Pemuda UMNO Malaysia yang semakin terdesak karier politiknya!

Kenyataan Khir Toyo yang mendahului berita tentang gambar-gambar tersebut jelas menunjukkan bahawa seolah-olah insiden ini merupakan satu jenayah politik yang terancang untuk menjatuhkan maruah dan imej serta seorang wakil rakyat yang sangat disenangi oleh pengundi-pengundi di Bukit Lanjan. Khir Toyo jelas kelihatan seperti seorang yang bengong bila beliau membandingkan isu ini dengan skandal tidak bermaruah bekas menteri kanan Barisan Nasional, Dr Chua Sooi Lek yang meletakkan jawatan akibat rakaman video hubungan seks beliau di sebuah hotel. Beliau juga seolah-olah menyokong sebarang perbuatan menceroboh kehidupan peribadi sesiapa sahaja asalkan matlamat politik menjatuhkan maruah seseorang tercapai.

Sebagai seorang Islam, saya merasa malu dengan perbuatan Khir Toyo sebagai seorang wakil rakyat beragama Islam yang cuba naik dengan menjatuhkan maruah orang lain. Islam jelas melarang keras perbuatan menjatuhkan maruah atau mendedahkan keaiban orang lain. Mustahil anak guru agama yang satu ini tidak tahu hukum dan larangan agama, sekalipun ianya berkaitan dengan maruah seorang bukan Islam!

Kita mengharapkan agar YB Elizabeth Wong akan tetap bersemangat dan teguh menghadapi dugaan terbaru dalangan UMNO dan Barisan Nasional ini. Kita menyeru rakyat, terutamanya pengundi di 2 pilihanraya kecil di Bukit Gantang dan Bukit Selambau dapat bangkit memberikan mesej yang jelas kepada UMNO dan Barisan Nasional bahawa rakyat sudah muak dan jelak dengan politik tidak bermoral UMNO dan Barisan Nasional ini!


SAIFUL IZHAM RAMLI
Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan
Negeri Kedah Darul Aman

From Malaysiakini-Exco PKR Kedah 'bercuti', tidak hilang

Exco PKR Kedah 'bercuti', tidak hilang
Jimadie Shah Othman

Feb 6, 09 7:13pm

Sewaktu desas-desus BN cuba menumbangkan Kedah selepas kejayaan di Perak, seorang exco kerajaan negeri V Arumugam dikatakan "tidak hilang, sebaliknya sedang bercuti".

"Beliau bercuti lima hari. Kalau tidak salah saya, bermula Khamis, semalamlah," kata Dr Hamdan Mohamed Khalib. Exco sukan dan kesenian itu bagaimanapun menafikan rakannya di majlis mesyuarat negeri itu mengambil cuti sakit seumpama dua bekas exco Perak, Jamaluddin Mat Radzi dan Mohd Osman Jailu sebelum memutuskan keluar PKR dan menyokong BN.

Ditanya lokasi percutian exco perdagangan dalam negeri dan hal ehwal pengguna Kedah itu bercuti, Dr Hamdan bekata beliau difahamkan tempatnya di dalam negara. Wakil rakyat PAS itu diminta mengulas laporan akhbar berbahasa Cina hari ini yang mendakwa Arumugam (foto) tidak boleh dihubungi – dan keadaan membuka ruang spekulasi kemungkinan wakil rakyat PKR Bukit Selambau akan melompat parti.

Laporan itu menyemarakkan lagi cakap-cakap bahawa Arumugam akan meninggalkan PKR bagi melengkap projek merampas kuasa di negeri itu seperti yang dilakukan BN di Perak minggu ini.

Dihubungi Malaysiakini petang ini, Dr Hamdan berkata kerajaan Kedah masih dapat menghubungi Arumugam setakat ini. Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Tanjong Dawai itu berkata, cubaan membeli Adun-adun Pakatan di negeri itu bermula sejak awal apabila gabungan PAS-PKR-DAP itu menumbangkan BN dalam pilihanraya umum lalu. Bagaimanapun, tambah beliau, usaha itu "tidak pernah berjaya sampai sekarang".

Dr Hamdan turut menafikan terdapat usaha mengurung Adun mereka sama ada daripada PKR atau DAP bagi mengelakkan mereka melompat kepada BN. Usaha Malaysiakini menghubungi Arumugam setakat ini tidak berjaya.

Sementara itu, ahli parlimen PKR Padang Serai, N Gobalakrishnan juga menafikan kehilangan Adun Bukit Selambau. "Semalam saya ada cakap dengan dia. Dia orang yang ada prinsip dan tahu bahawa PKR dan Pakatan mempunyai prinsip," katanya, juga ahli Majlis Pimpinan Tertinggi PKR. Sehubungan itu, beliau percaya Arumugam akan terus bersama Pakatan dan tidak akan melompat ke parti lawan. Ditanya sama ada kegagalan Arumugam hadir dalam perasmian daerah baru Pokok Sena semalam merupakan tanda beliau akan melompat parti, Gobalakrishnan menjawab ringkas: "Saya pun tidak datang."

Isnin lalu, Arumugam melaporkan kepada polis dengan dakwaan ada tawaran wang dan ugutan agar meninggalkan PKR, termasuk terhadapnya, keluarga dan pegawainya. Semalam, di saat kerajaan Perak di ambang kejatuhannya, Pakatan Rakyat di Kedah mengadakan satu mesyuarat tergempar membincangkan perkembangan di negeri jirannya itu. Gabungan tersebut diura-urakan mengawal ketat beberapa Adun yang dianggap "berisiko tinggi" untuk melompat parti.

Malaysiakini difahamkan wakil-wakil rakyat yang dispekulasikan itu – Tan Wei Xu (Bakar Arang), Mohd Radzhi Salleh (Lunas) dan Lim See Nee (Kulim) – kini diletakkan dalam pengawasan rapi kepemimpinan Kedah dan Pakatan.

Salinan Surat MB Perak kepada Sultan Azlan Shah (5 Feb 2009)

5 Februari 2009

Mengadap Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Sultan Azlan Shah
Muhibbuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yussuf Izzuddin Shah Ghafarullahu-Lah
Paduka Sultan Negeri Perak Darul Ridzuan,

Yang bersemayam di atas takhta Kerajaan Negeri Perak Darul Ridzuan dengan beberapa amat kebesaran dan kemuliaannya.

Assalamualaikum
Ampun Tuanku,

Dengan hormat dan takzimnya patik merafa’kan sembah dan berdoa kehadrat Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala, mudah-mudahan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku sentiasa berada dalam keadaan selamat dan kesejahteraan.

Ampun Tuanku,

MERAFA’ SEMBAH MEMAKLUMKAN PERKEMBANGAN TERKINI DEWAN UNDANGAN NEGERI PERAK DARUL RIDZUAN

Warkah yang tidak sepertinya ini sebagai pengganti diri patik untuk menyembahkan kepada Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku mengenai isu kedudukan terkini Dewan Undangan Negeri Perak Darul Ridzuan.

Patik merafa’ sembah menjunjung kasih di atas perkenan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku pada pagi ini. Patik memohon izin untuk menyembahkan beberapa perkara:

1. Artikel XVI(6) Undang-undang Perlembagaan Negeri Perak menyatakan bahawa “If the Menteri Besar ceases to command the confidence of the majority of the Legislative Assembly, then, unless at his request His Royal Highness dissolves the Legislative Assembly, he shall tender the resignation of the Executive Council”. Ini bermakna sokongan Menteri Besar itu perlu diputuskan oleh Persidangan Dewan Undangan Negeri.

2. Jumlah Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Pakatan Rakyat dan Barisan Nasional adalah sama iaitu 28 orang. Adalah kurang tepat andaian Barisan Nasional mempunyai majoriti. YB Yang DiPertua Dewan Undangan Negeri Perak telah memutuskan bahawa ADUN bagi kawasan Behrang, Changkat Jering dan Jelapang bukan lagi ADUN. YB Yang DiPertua Dewan Undangan Negeri Perak dan Kerajaan Negeri Perak juga telah memfailkan satu permohonan untuk satu perisytiharan bahawa ketiga-tiga ADUN berkenaan bukannya ADUN untuk kawasan-kawasan tersebut di Mahkamah Tinggi pada pagi ini. Sewajarnya kita menunggu keputusan Mahkamah dalam kes tersebut.

Ampun Tuanku,

Atas alasan di atas dan berdasarkan prinsip demokrasi dan Raja Berperlembagaan Patik dengan ini merafa’ sembah memohon agar Dewan Undangan Negeri dibubarkan bagi membolehkan rakyat memilih semula kerajaan yang dikehendaki mereka.

Ampun Tuanku,

Patik dengan ini merafa’ sembah bahawa pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat sebulat suara meminta Patik untuk tidak meletak jawatan sehingga krisis perlembagaan ini diputuskan oleh Mahkamah atau Dewan Undangan Negeri Perak.

Ampun Tuanku,

Patik akhiri warkah yang tidak sepertinya ini dengan sekalung penghargaan ke atas keprihatinan dan pertimbangan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku. Mudah-mudahan Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala melanjutkan usia Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku dan seluruh kerabat Tuanku dan semoga sentiasa berada di dalam kesejahteraan dan kebahagiaan yang berkekalan.

Amin Ya Rabbal ‘Alamin

Ampun Tuanku,

Patik dengan segala hormat takzimnya;
Bagi pihak Ahli-ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Pakatan Rakyat

YAB Dato’ Seri Ir Haji Mohammad Nizar bin Jamaluddin
Menteri Besar Perak Darul Ridzuan

From Malaysiakini- Kedah's turn to feel defection heat

Kedah's turn to feel defection heat
Syed Jaymal Zahiid, Jimadie Shah Othman and Abdul Rahim Sabri

Feb 5, 09 2:44pm

Following the political coup in neighbouring Perak, the Pakatan Rakyat-led state of Kedah is said to be on high alert.

It is learnt that several Pakatan state assemblypersons there have been categorised as 'high risk' and their movements are being closely monitored by the state leadership.

Allegations are rife that these 'high risk' reps have been approached by Barisan Nasional numerous times since last week in a bid to lure them to defect.Pakatan currently holds an eight-seat majority in the state assembly after it wrested 22 seats against BN's 14 in the last general election. For a change in government, BN will need five additional seats.

When contacted, Kedah PKR Youth chief Saiful Izham confirmed that the leadership is "on alert" and is currently monitoring their members."Yes, we are monitoring our members but not to the extent of having them quarantined. Monitoring means we are constantly keeping in contact with them."We have been having several meetings with the leadership and members and so far all have attended," he said.

An emergency meeting of all Pakatan MPs and assemblypersons is to be held at 4pm to discuss possible spillovers of the Perak turmoil.

It is rumoured that the going price for a defector in Kedah is RM3 million while the 'brokering fee' for the middleman is RM1 million. Some state PKR representatives - believed to be the key targets for defections - said that brokers have walked boldly into their offices offering their "services".

The assemblypersons are said to be ripe for defections as they had expressed dissatisfaction over a number of policies imposed by the PAS-led government, including the requirement for all new housing projects to set aside half of the units for bumiputeras.

No 'missing' leaders

PAS Bukit Lada state assemblyperson Ahmad Izzat Shauki claimed that BN has made several approaches but so far no Pakatan rep has accepted."We know BN is attempting to lure our members to defect since last year but we have declined."No one is missing so far. There was an event in Pokok Sena this morning and everyone, including the menteri besar and excos, were present," he said.

Sungai Petani PKR parliamentarian Johari Abdul (left) also conceded that Kedah is on high alert after what transpired in Perak.He alleged that various attempts have been made by BN to lure Pakatan representatives to defect with offers of cash and powerful positions.

However, Padang Serai PKR parliamentarian N Gobalakrishnan denied that the Pakatan-led state government is worried over the prospect of their members leaping to the opposite side."I have not heard of anything. Of course, we know that BN has been trying to get our people to defect but I have heard nothing to merit any serious attention," he said.

Meanwhile, Jerlun Umno MP Mukhriz Mahathir denied that there were any attempts by BN to induce defections."No, not that I have heard of. As far as I know, there have been no such attempts to get them to defect," he said.

Kedah waspada, Adun PKR diawasi rapi

Kedah waspada, Adun PKR diawasi rapi
Jimadie Shah Othman & Abdul Rahim Sabri

Feb 5, 09 1:01pm, kemaskini 8:52pm

Di saat kerajaan Perak di ambang kejatuhannya, Pakatan Rakyat di Kedah pula kini menjadi sasaran seterusnya BN susulan terdapat beberapa wakil rakyat gabungan tersebut didakwa "berisiko tinggi" untuk melompat parti. Malaysiakini difahamkan bahawa wakil-wakil rakyat terbabit kini diletakkan dalam pengawasan ketat kepemimpinan Kedah dan Pakatan Rakyat. Dalam keadaan berwaspada, pergerakan mereka kini difahamkan dipantau rapi kerana wujud dakwaan mereka sedang dijadikan sasaran terbaru untuk ditarik melompat menyertai BN.

Usaha sejak tahun lepas dipergiatkan kembali minggu lalu, serentak dengan usaha memujuk beberapa Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) PKR dan DAP di Perak. Difahamkan, usaha ini turut melibatkan sebuah jabatan kerajaan.

Projek BN ini berkaitan usaha menumbangkan satu demi satu kerajaan negeri pimpinan gabungan pembangkang itu, bermula di Perak yang kini hanya menunggu saat rasmi kejatuhannya.

Pakatan Rakyat memerintah Kedah dengan kelebihan lapan kerusi - 22 kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Kedah, manakala BN pula 14 kerusi.Kerusi milik Pakatan itu terdiri daripada 16 kerusi PAS, lima kerusi PKR dan satu kerusi DAP.

Susulan usaha menarik wakil-wakil rakyat PKR di Kedah semakin rancak, exco kerajaan Kedah V Arumugam membuat laporan polis awal minggu ini dengan dakwaan beliau, keluarganya dan pegawainya diugut. Adun PKR Bukit Selambau itu juga mendakwa ada pihak menawarkan sejumlah wang tetapi enggan mendedahkan jumlahnya dan pihak terbabit. Menang atas tiket bebas pada pilihanraya umum lalu, Arumugam kemudiannya menyertai PKR sebelum dilantik pengerusi Jawatankuasa Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna, Hal Ehwal Masyarakat Siam, Perpaduan, Pekerja Ladang dan Hal Ehwal Masyarakat India.

Malam tadi, sebuah stesen televisyen mendedahkan kisah peribadi beliau - dipercayai satu strategi menekan beliau selepas membuat aduan polis tersebut.

Tiga Adun PKR yang didakwa menjadi sasaran BN: Tan Wei Xu (Bakar Arang), Mohd Rahzi Salleh (Lunas) dan Lim See Nee (Kulim). Seorang lagi Adun Sidam, Tan Chow Kang dikatakan "tidak goncang" walaupun selepas usaha memujuknya melompat kepada BN.

Dihubungi Malaysiakini hari ini, Lim menafikan beberapa Adun PKR dikuarantin di kediaman rasmi Menteri Besar, Datuk Azizan Razak untuk mengelak mereka berpindah parti.Beliau bagaimanapun tidak menafikan usaha melobi mereka agar menyertai BN.

Susulan perkembangan itu khususnya kejatuhan kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat di Perak, sidang mesyuarat tergempar semua Adun dan ahli parlimen Kedah dijadualkan jam 4 petang ini.Ahli parlimen Pokok Sena, Datuk Mahfuz Omar berkata mesyuarat tadi bertujuan memberikan taklimat terkini perkembangan krisis rampasan kuasa BN di Perak kepada semua wakil rakyat Pakatan di Kedah. Tambahnya, usaha BN memindahkan sokongan Adun-Adun Pakatan di Kedah kepada BN tidak berjaya.

Ahli parlimen PKR Sungai Petani, Datuk Johari Abdul dan Adun PAS Bukit Lada, Ahmad Izzat Shauki turut menafikan wujud usaha mengkuarantin wakil-wakil rakyat PKR. Dihubungi berasingan hari ini, kedua-duanya menjelaskan semua exco kerajaan PKR berada di majlis perasmian daerah baru Pokok Sena di pejabat daerah jam 10 pagi tadi.

Johari menambah, memang wujud usaha yang konsisten dan tidak pernah berhenti untuk memancing keluar wakil-wakil rakyat PKR di negeri itu seperti pendedahan Arumugam. Usaha itu dalam tiga bentuk - ugutan, tawaran jawatan dan sogokan material, katanya lagi. Memandangkan keadaan itu, kata Johari, semua Adun PKR sentiasa berhubung dengan pemimpin-pemimpin parti dan menafikan mereka ingin meninggalkan parti itu.

Ketua Angkatan Muda PKR Kedah, Saiful Izham Ramli mengesahkan PKR sentiasa memantau wakil-wakil rakyat mereka. Selain di Kedah, Malaysiakini difahamkan beberapa lagi Adun PKR di Selangor sedang dipantau rapi susulan kebimbangan akan berlaku lompat parti.

From Malaysiakini- No Dissolution, new govt to be sworn in.

No dissolution, new gov't to be sworn in
Feb 5, 09 10:25am

LIVE REPORTS

4.58pm: A new BN government is expected to be sworn in today. Bernama reported that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and the state BN representatives have arrived at Istana Kinta. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is on an official visit to the state, is also expected to be present at the palace any time now.

4.53pm: The police have taken over the state secretariat building. All Pakatan officials in the complex are told to pack up and leave by 5pm.

4.50pm: Pakatan leader Anwar Ibrahim said that they want to meet the sultan to convince him to dissolve the assembly.

4.45pm: PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said that the Pakatan leadership fully backed Mohd Nizar's government. He added that the menteri besar will not resign unless a special state assembly session was called or fresh elections held.

4.40pm: Mohd Nizar tells the press conference that he would not resign from his post as the menteri besar. He urged the people to back his Pakatan government.

He also said that the assembly speaker had filed a suit on the validity of the resignation letters submitted by three former Pakatan state representatives and said that it was only wise to wait for the court to decide on the matter.

"The BN's majority may not be a valid one," he said.

4.15pm A source inside the Pakatan meeting at the MB's residence say that the atmosphere inside is sombre. Anwar is chairing the meeting, with everyone is being allowed to have a say.

4.14pm Unconfirmed reports state that former DAP state assemblyperson Hee Yit Foong's house in Ipoh and her service centre in Jelapang have been pelted with stones by people angry with her defection.

4.10pm Roads leading to the state secretariat have been blocked by the police to stop people from gathering there.

4.05pm: State secretary Abdul Rahman Hashim instructs Menteri Besar Mohd Nizar, all exco members and their aides to vacate their offices at the state secretariat as soon as possible. They have been reminded not to take any official documents with them. They were also told to hand in their official car keys as well as the keys to their offices

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3.25pm: It learnt that Mohd Nizar will announce his refusal to resign as requested by the sultan.

3.20pm All top Pakatan leaders are in a meeting at Mohd Nizar's official residence to chart their next course of action. A press conference is expected to be held soon. Notable absentees are Kedah MB Azizan Razak and Kelantan MB Niz Aziz Nik Mat. About 30 supporters have gathered outside the residence. A big team of some 50 journalists are also waiting there.

3pm: The office of the Sultan of Perak, in a statement, said that after meeting all the 28 BN assemblypersons and the three independents, the sultan was convinced that Mohd Nizar had ceased to command the confidence of the majority of the state assembly members."If YAB Datuk Seri Ir. Mohammad Nizar bin Jamaluddin does not resign his post as Perak menteri besar together with the members of the state executive council, the posts of menteri besar and state executive councillors are considered vacant," the statement said.

2.40pm: The five Indian state representatives in Perak - A Sivasubramaniam (DAP-Buntong), V Sivakumar (DAP-Tronoh), Keshvinder Singh (DAP-Malim Nawar), S Kesavan (PKR-Hutan Melintang) and A Sivanesan (DAP-Sungkai) - held a press conference earlier today that they would remain loyal to Pakatan Rakyat. Speaker Sivakumar said that various approaches were made to entice them to cross over to BN. "We were offered money and high posts in party (MIC) and government but we rejected the advances of these people," he said.

2.27pm: Bernama reports that the Sultan of Perak has rejected the request by Mohd Nizar for the dissolution of the state assembly. The report also said that the sultan has asked Mohd Nizar to step down to pave the way for a power transfer.

2.14pm: Tonight's 100,000 people gathering in support of the Pakatan government has been shifted to Stadium Ipoh from the menteri besar's official residence.

The police have issued warnings against those who take part in "illegal gatherings" in Ipoh.

2pm: Anwar arrives at Mohd Nizar's house. He is expected to hold a press conference together the menteri besar and Penang CM Lim Guan Eng at 3pm. PKR vice-president Azmin Ali is also there. [Watch 6-min VIDEO]

1.32pm: A PKR source says that the sultan had asked Mohd Nizar to step down as menteri besar to allow a smooth transistion of power at their brief meeting today but the latter had refused to do so.

1.30pm: Najib just ended his Perak Umno meeting and left the party's state headquarters without calling a press conference. It is learnt there was a discussion on who to be appointed as new menteri besar.

1.25pm: Najib is still at the Umno meeting. However, it is learnt that he will not be holding a press conference after the meeting.

1.05pm: Perak MB Mohd Nizar leaves the palace. He waved and smiled at reporters. He just said: "Good signs. Alhamdulliah." His meeting with the sultan lasted 15 minutes. He had entered the palace at 12.50pm.

Mohd Nizar will be holding a press conference along with Pakatan leader Anwar Ibrahim and DAP leader Lim Guan Eng at 3pm.

12.50pm: Najib is presently chairing an Umno meeting in Ipoh where the choice of the new menteri besar is being discussed. He is expected to call for a press conference within the next hour.

12.40pm: There is an indication that Sultan Azlan Shah will allow Barisan Nasional to form a state government with the participation of three independents.It is learnt that the sultan met with the four defectors at Istana Kinta this morning. The four had accompanied Najib to the palace during the deputy prime minister's second visit to see the sultan. BN's 28 state representatives were also present. At a brief press conference later, Najib said that all BN state assemblypersons and three Independents have given their undertaking to the sultan that they will back a Barisan-led government. ‘As such, we will leave it to the sultan to make his decision and we shall respect his decision,” he said. When asked who would be BN’s choice for MB, Najib said that they would first wait for the sultan’s decision.

Menteri Besar Mohd Nizar is still in a meeting with sultan.

Earlier today
Sultan Azlan Shah met with Perak BN chief Najib Abdul Razak at the Istana Kinta in Ipoh this morning, and this was to be followed by another meeting with Perak Menteri Besar Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin.

Najib has informed the sultan of BN's strength in numbers in the state assembly that will allow the coalition to take over the control of the state from Pakatan Rakyat.

On the other hand, Mohd Nizar is advising the sultan to dissolve the state assembly to pave way for fresh elections in the state to resolve the political impasse.

Also present at the meeting with the deputy prime minister is Perak Umno deputy chief Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Najib and Ahmad Zahid arrived at the palace at 9.50am.

He left at 10.35am and returned about 20 minutes later with four former Pakatan assemblypersons who had pledged support for BN. The party left at 11.30am.Meanwhile, Mohd Nizar is currently on his way to meet with the sultan. He left Bagan Serai at 11.30am where he was attending a function officiated by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

He told journalists there that he had been summoned by the sultan.

After the meeting with the sultan, Najib, who is also the Perak Umno chief, will be chairing a state Umno meeting. Top on the agenda would the choice of menteri besar to lead the BN government.He had earlier cancelled a function in Putrajaya this morning to attend the meeting with the sultan.

Pakatan goes to court
Meanwhile, Perak state assembly speaker V Sivakumar has applied to the High Court to declare that undated resignations letters by former Pakatan representatives as valid.

The three - PKR's Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi and Osman Jailu, and DAP's Hee Yit Foong - have claimed that their quit letters signed soon after being elected as assemblypersons last March were done under duress.

The Election Commission has overruled the Perak speaker on the matter.

Yesterday Perak MB Mohd Nizar met the sultan for almost two hours to request for dissolution of the state assembly so that a snap state election could be held.Mohd Nizar's meeting coincided with the defection of four Pakatan representatives to BN yesterday, severely altering the number of seats from Pakatan to BN. The fate of the state government now hinges on the sultan. Political observers are waiting to see if he would allow BN to form the state government or will dissolve the state assembly. Among the other developments taking place in Perak today:

Pakatan will be holding its council meeting in Ipoh later this afternoon. Pakatan leader Anwar Ibrahim and all other top guns from the alliance are expected to be present at the meeting.

A mammoth gathering is also being organised tonight outside the menteri besar's residence in support of the embattled Pakatan government. A crowd of about 100,000 is expected.

Anwar and other top Pakatan leaders are among the speakers at the rally, which is to begin at 7.30pm. Police chief Musa Hasan has warned that action will be taken against illegal gatherings in Ipoh.

From Malaysiakini- Perak Govt Collapses-BN Claims Power

Perak gov't collapses - BN claims power
Feb 4, 09 12:12pm
LIVE REPORTS

5.50pm: Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim accuses BN of trying to form government in Perak 'by hook or by crook'.

"We are pushing for a dissolution of the state assembly and fresh elections in the state. We must go back to the people and get a fresh mandate," he tells AFP.

"BN is trying to form the state government by hook or by crook - more by crook."

5.35pm: Mohd Nizar leaves the palace after meeting Sultan Azlan Shah. He tells reporters that he has informed the sultan of his request to dissolve the state assembly.

"It is now up to Tuanku (his highness)," he adds with a smile. The meeting lasted almost two hours.

5.08pm: 'PERAK GOVERNMENT FALLS' A beaming Najib tells a press conference that Barisan Nasional has the support of the four former Pakatan Perak assemblypersons - three will be "BN-friendly" Independents, while Nasarudin will rejoin Umno.

Najib will meet the Perak sultan as soon as possible. He says it is up to the sultan to decide on Nizar's request for dissolution of the assembly.

"All three state representatives - Jamaluddin, Osman and Hee - have submitted resignation letters to their former parties and have informed the sultan of their resignation."They have also given BN the mandate to select a new menteri besar for Perak."

Nasarudin denies the claim that he has been abducted. Najib adds that under Article 16(6) of the Perak constitution, if the menteri besar loses the confidence of the assembly members, he is required to resign, together with all the exco members under him.

However the final decision now hinges on the Sultan of Perak - if he accedes to a Pakatan request for dissolution or allows BN to form the new government. Najib's press statement & Nasarudin's press statement

5.05pm: Mohd Nizar is still at Istana Kinta.

4.28pm: It is learnt that Bota representative Nasarudin Hashim is at the DPM's office, waiting to be introduced to the media by Najib. With Nasarudin's reversal of his defection, BN and its independent allies now have 31 seats against Pakatan Rakyat's 28.

4.25pm Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi, Osman Jailu and Hee Yit Foong are present at the DPM's office. It is believed that Najib will announce their entry into BN at his press conference.

4pm: DPM Najib Abdul Razak is expected to begin his press conference in Putrajaya soon.

3.50pm: Perak Menteri Besar Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin enters Istana Kinta to meet with Sultan Azlan Shah.

EARLIER TODAY
Perak Menteri Besar Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin is expected to have an audience with the sultan to seek the dissolution of the state assembly. If the sultan accedes to the request, a snap state election will have to be called in view of the current political upheaval in Perak.

It is learnt that Nizar is now waiting to be summoned by Sultan Azlan Shah for the audience and will be calling a press conference soon after.

The Pakatan Rakyat-led government is at the verge of collapse in the wake of resignations from three of its state assemblypersons. Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi (PKR-Behrang), Osman Jailu (PKR-Changkat Jering) and deputy assembly speaker Hee Yit Foong (DAP-Jelapang) had this morning submitted official letters to speaker V Sivakumar to express their intention to become independent representatives.

This afternoon Hee confirmed to reporters in Ipoh that she had resigned from DAP to become an independent.

Two more to defect, Najib to call PC. At the same time, political circles told Malaysiakini that two more Pakatan representatives are in the midst of leaving their parties. They too are expected to become independents. All five are eventually expected to join BN.

The Perak sultan will now play a pivotal role on whether to agree with Mohmad Nizar in dissolving the state assembly or hand over the state government to the one which commands the majority, which in this case could be BN.

But it appears that the sultan will go for the second option by allowing a transfer of power without a snap poll.

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is calling a press conference at 4pm in Putrajaya. It is speculated that he will announced the possible takeover of the state government.

All Perak BN parliamentarians and state assemblypersons have summoned to Putrajaya for Najib's press conference.

With Hee's defection, Pakatan now has 29 seats with DAP (17), PKR (6) and PAS (6), BN has 27 with Umno (26) and MCA (1), and three independents.

From Malaysiakini- Millions Dangled Before Kedah PKR Reps

'Millions' dangled before Kedah PKR reps

Athi Veeranggan

Feb 3, 09 2:23pm

Kedah executive councillor V Arumugam was allegedly offered up to RM4 million to cross from Pakatan Rakyat to Barisan Nasional (BN). And he was not the only one to have cash dangled before him.

When he failed to take the bait, Arumugam and his family were said to have been threatened while an attempt was made to ‘kidnap’ him.The Bukit Selambau representative and Merbok PKR vice-chairperson had claimed yesterday that agents had made several attempts recently to lure him into the state BN.

Elaborating today when contacted, he said he believes the BN has always been keen to lure the five PKR assemblypersons to secure the numbers to topple the Pakatan government, which holds 22 seats to the BN’s 14.The Pakatan tally comprises 16 for PAS, 5 for PKR and one for DAP. Under the BN umbrella, Umno has 12, while MCA and Gerakan have one each. If all PKR men were to jump ship, BN would have 19 seats against Pakatan’s 17, enough to form a razor-thin majority.

Arumugam, who lodged a police report last week, urged the police to step up their probe.“I am really disappointed that politics have become so dangerous and dirty in this country,” he said.“Hopefully the police will carry out their investigations without fear or favour, and haul up the culprits to face the law. These violent characters must be punished.”

Offers rejected. It is also learnt that other PKR assemblypersons have been approached by agents since the general election last March. They include Bakar Arang assemblyperson and exco Tan Wei Shu and Kulim assemblyperson Lim Soo Nee. Lim said he was contacted twice by different individuals between March and April last year. He was offered between RM1 million and RM4 million.

“The agents did not spell out the party (making the offer) but merely told me to hop to BN,” Lim claimed.

Since Lim did not respond to both offers, the agents never came back to him.

Tan too received similar offers of cash and posts soon after Pakatan took over Kedah, but said he had rejected the idea of party hopping. “I did not want to make a big hue and cry about it because I had to protect my family,” he said, expressing empathy with Arumugam over his ordeal. PKR’s other assemblypersons are Tan Joo Long @ Tan Chow Kang (Sidam) and Mohd Razhi Salleh (Lunas), who is also an executive councillor. Both could not be contacted for comment.

Given the critical political developments in neighbouring Perak, PKR leaders believe that BN will indulge in similar stunts to destabilise the administration of Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak in Kedah. However, Arumugam claimed that all the PKR assemblypersons will remain loyal to the party and to the Pakatan government.

Terkini, Pendedahan ADUN PKR Bukit Selambau

Kenyataan Akhbar

YB Arumugam a/l Vengatarakoo,
Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Bukit Selambau,
merangkap EXCO Kerajaan Negeri Kedah Darul Aman

2hb Februari, 2009


Sidang media ini dipanggil untuk menerangkan beberapa perkembangan terbaru yang serius yang melibatkan isu-isu politik yang berunsurkan jenayah yang sedang berlaku di negeri Kedah, yang melibatkan saya selaku Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Kedah dan ahli EXCO Kerajaan Negeri Kedah.

Satu repot polis telah dibuat hari ini merangkumi semua kes-kes ugutan jenayah terhadap saya selaku Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Kedah dan ahli EXCO Kerajaan Negeri Kedah, dan juga terhadap keselamatan keluarga saya sejak dari 8hb Mac, 2008. Ianya juga melibatkan semua ugutan terhadap pegawai-pegawai dan bekas-bekas pegawai saya. Ke semua ini adalah bertujuan bagi mengugut saya untuk bersetuju berpindah parti dari Parti Keadilan Rakyat ke Barisan Nasional.

Antara insiden-insiden yang melibatkan ugutan jenayah adalah cubaan menculik saya pada 17/10/2008, mengugut saya melalui pegawai saya melalui beberapa panggilan telefon yang antaranya pada 31/3/2008, mengugut keselamatan keluarga saya, insiden memecahkan cermin kereta rasmi exco kerajaan negeri model Proton Perdana no BKL 4000 dengan meninggalkan nota ugutan yang diikat pada seketul bata pada 17/12/2008, dan juga menghantar beberapa beberapa individu untuk memujuk saya keluar dari Parti Keadilan Rakyat, yang terbaru sekali beberapa hari yang lalu, dengan beberapa tawaran lumayan.

Perkembangan peristiwa yang menimpa 2 orang teman exco PKR di Perak telah menyebabkan saya tampil untuk membuat kenyataan akhbar ini. Saya khuatir, sekiranya saya tidak tampil ke hadapan untuk membuat pernyataan secara terbuka ini, keselamatan dan ketenteraman saya dan keluarga saya akan terus diganggu, diugut secara jenayah serta dipujuk untuk memastikan saya berpindah parti.

Saya juga mendesak agar pihak polis akan segera membuat siasatan terhadap ke semua laporan-laporan polis yang telah saya buat sejak Mac, 2008 dan mengambil tindakan segera dan tegas bagi menjamin keselamatan saya dan keluarga saya. Ini semua akan membolehkan saya mampu berkhidmat dengan lebih baik dan berkesan selaku ahli exco kerajaan negeri Kedah dan ahli dewan undangan negeri Bukit Selambau, tanpa sebarang gangguan terhadap saya dan keluarga saya.

Sekian, terimakasih,

Arumugam a/l Vengatarakoo,
Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Bukit Selambau,
merangkap EXCO Kerajaan Negeri Kedah Darul Aman