KUALA LUMPUR: MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy lashed out at the
DAP for fielding Keshvinder Singh as a candidate for the general election, when
his “credibility is already in question”.
“I want to ask DAP, especially Lim Kit Siang (DAP adviser) and Lim Guan Eng
(secretary-general) if they are still going to field him as a candidate (for the
Malim Nawar state seat in the Kampar parliamentary constituency).
“DAP talks so much about integrity, accountability and credibility, but here
they are fielding someone whose credibility is seriously in doubt. I think they
(Kit Siang and Guan Eng) owe the people an apology,” he said in a press
conference at Wisma MCA here yesterday.
Chan added he wanted to know if the party would hold Keshvinder Singh
accountable.
“He has responded, so we know it’s true. But we cannot accept his explanation as
a professional answer,” he said.
In Kampar, Keshvinder Singh described the reports about being penalised by the
Bar Council and allegations that he did not have a practising certificate as
“vicious attacks” on his character.
“This is a political assassination.”
On Saturday, The Star had cited the Bar’s website at www.malaysianbar.org that
Keshvinder Singh was fined RM10,000 under Section 103D of the Legal Professions
Act 1976 over a land tenancy agreement by its disciplinary board on Nov 17 last
year.
It also reported that he had not renewed his annual practising certificate by
March 8, 2006, citing the website.
“The tenancy agreement was prepared and signed by my clerk without my knowledge
in May 2005.
“I only found out about it when the client wrote a letter seeking an explanation
as to why the agreement did not carry the signatures of two beneficiaries,” said
Keshvinder Singh, who is fighting Barisan Nasional candidate Dr Chai Song Poh
for the state seat.
He said two disciplinary hearings were brought against him following that.
The disciplinary board decided to penalise him by virtue that his clerk was part
of his firm and he, as her boss, should be responsible for her mistakes, he told
a press conference yesterday.
On allegations that he was practising without a certificate, Keshvinder Singh
said his head office in Ampang, Kuala Lumpur had been broken into on Dec 10,
2005.
The thieves stole his practising certificate, along with other important
documents in a safe, he said.
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