PKR & Gobala - Muniandy Vengaiah

More than one month ago, I wrote to express my disgust with the way PKR handled dissent from its own members. Looking at the way it is handling the criticisms from one of its own MPs, YB N. Gobalakrishnan, it seems that in PKR any internal dissent is automatically considered an act of treachery.

Its former deputy president, Dr Syed Husin Ali, has made many accusations about these dissenters. He has labelled them as sampah sarap or rubbish, ‘frogs’ planning to leave the party and posing as heroes in attacking the party leadership merely to extract the highest bid from BN.

I regret very much that Dr Syed Husin has chosen to make those accusations which are baseless, very deplorable and self-defeating.

The effect is to scare members from criticising the party leadership. What is the point of having ‘one member, one vote’ to encourage democratic participation of members when participation in the form of honest and legitimate criticisms are condemned as treacherous by the party?

In defence of Gobala and in reply to those who attacked him for airing openly his grouses, many times in private he had expressed his dissatisfaction to the party leadership, only to find out later that his complaints had fallen on deaf years. And when in frustration he brings everything out in the open, he is accused of being disloyal to the party. What is this, PKR?

Some party leaders like to claim the party has come out of the internal elections stronger than before. Is it really? Why can’t the party be more matured in managing criticisms from its members if it is really stronger than before? To me, the recent party elections have only proven that PKR is unfit to issue any kind of criticism to the Elections Commission about the way that body administers the nation’s elections.

Gobala’s main concerns are over the Sivan Temple in Bukit Gasing and the welfare of the Coalfield Estates workers. As an elected people’s representative, he feels that it is his duty to speak out on those issues. And yet the party chooses to vilify him for speaking out.

His other complaints about the many flaws in the party elections and how the party’s de facto leader seems to favour the current deputy president before, during and after the elections are meant to open up the eyes of the membership to shortcomings within the party. Is it taboo to criticise the de facto leader? If so, is it because he is a ‘God-given’ leader, as claimed by the party president?

Gobala also brought up the question of Mr Surendran’s membership and it took the party a long time to announce that he has always been a member of the Lembah Pantai cabang. Really? Was his name in the electoral roll of members qualified to vote during the party elections?

It is suspected that a party letter had been forged to sack a certain party member and stop him from contesting the deputy president post during the recent elections. I therefore have suspicion that Surendran’s name could have just been inserted into the membership register simply to deny Gobala’s claim. PKR is a party that believes in solving problems expeditiously, it seems.

Many senior members have left the party after being disenchanted with the attitude and stance of the top leadership. Right now, in the way the party handles internal dissent and criticisms, there is a big question mark whether PKR is the Reformasi party that it claims to be.



MUNIANDY VENGAIAH

Perlantikan Canselor UNISEL - Ridzuan Zakaria

Pada 20 November, Rosmah Mansor telah mengumumkan pengunduran diri dari jawatan Canselor Unisel. Sejak itu berbagai-bagai spekulasi telah timbul mengenai pengganti beliau.

Pada Kongres PKR baru-baru ini, Syed Husin Ali telah dicadangkan sebagai pengganti. Syed Husin, dalam kerasulannya, telah menolak cadangan tersebut. Sebaliknya, Syed Husin penuh dengan semangat anti-feudalisma, telah mencadangkan isteri boss, Wan Azizah Ismail. Mungkin Syed Husin menolak kerana segan-silu dilabel sebagai Canselor masuk pintu belakang seperti cara beliau menjadi Ahli Parlimen.

Tidak kira Syed Husin atau Wan Azizah, perlantikan antara dua tokoh ini akan menjejaskan nama baik Ketua Umum. Jika Syed Husin dilantik, dituduh kronisma; kalau Wan Azizah dipilih, dituduh nepostima.

Ketua Umum, sebagai pendukung wahid reformasi, harus berubah dari pradigma kolot UMNO/BN yang melantik ahli politik yang telah luput tarikhguna atau dari golongan bangsawan yang menganggur untuk menjadi Canselor universiti. Ketua Umum mestilah membuat perlantikan yang luar dari kotak.

Canselor Unisel yang baru wajib mampu membawa perubahan dan kecemerlangan kepada Unisel. Seorang ulama yang berintegriti. Seorang yang lazim dengan persekitaraan menara gading. Seorang dari akademia. Seorang yang tidak mempunyai ‘bagasi lebihan’ di arena politik tanah air tetapi dikenali umum.

Hanya Dr. Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin dapat menemui syarat-syarat tersebut.


RIDZUAN ZAKARIA
Seberang Jaya

Nafi ahli: Reformis kesal kenyataan timbalan presiden - Aktivis Reformasi

Merujuk kepada kenyataan Timbalan Presiden PKR, Yang Berhormat Senator Dr. Syed Husin Ali bahawa kumpulan yang mengganggu sidang media bekas pembantu Anwar Ibrahim, Rahimi Osman, semalam bukan ahli PKR dan diupah sendiri oleh Rahimi Osman.

Aktivis Reformasi tampil untuk membantu YB Senator Timbalan Presiden untuk mengenal pasti kumpulan yang dimaksudkan. Antara yang bersama kumpulan tersebut adalah:

1. Sdr. Puspa seorang ahli dan aktivis parti yang telah berjuang sejak 1998.

2. Sdr. Rama aktivis parti dari cabang Lembah Pantai yang juga pernah menyumbang satu unit penghawa dingin kepada pejabat Ahli Parlimen Lembah Pantai.

3. Sdr. Krisnasamy, mantan Timbalan Pengerusi PKR Klang.

Aktivis berasa teramat kesal terhadap kenyataan YB Senator Timbalan Presiden yang tidak mengenali ahli dan aktivis parti yang telah banyak memberi sumbangan serta berjuang semenjak 1998. Tindakan YB Senator menafikan keahlian dan penglibatan kumpulan ini di dalam Parti telah mengecilkan hati banyak pihak. Aktivis Reformasi dan ahli-ahli Parti memohon kepada pucuk pimpinan PKR agar penafian seperti ini tidak berulang lagi.

Salam reformasi.



AKTIVIS REFORMASI