PETALING JAYA: The rupture in Pakatan Rakyat has begun with the “deafening
silence” among party leaders over the issue of Kulim-Bandar Baru MP Zulkifli
Noordin’s open defiance, said Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin.
In a posting on his website (www.rembau.net) entitled “Pakatan Rupture,” Khairy
said although PKR had censured Zulkifli, he remained unrepentant and defiant by
launching further attacks on the Bar Council.
Khairy said it was not about whether Zulkifli was right or wrong but that the
decision by PKR chief whip, Azmin Ali, to let Zulkifli off the hook was
inconsistent with the stand of PKR and Pakatan’s leadership.
“This is about the fundamental ties that bind this so-called political coalition
that has designs on running this country very soon.
“Why is the normally glib Lim Kit Siang not chastising Zulkifli for defending
his action at the Bar Council which was condemned by many DAP leaders?” Khairy
questioned.
Khairy also asked if the self-proclaimed PM-in-waiting, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim,
was unable to prevent his own MP from repeatedly breaking ranks.
He also pointed out that PAS Member of Parliament Salahuddin Ayub was present to
lend his support to the demonstrators during the protest outside the Bar Council
on Aug 9.
“What are the views of Kit Siang and Guan Eng on Salahuddin’s presence? Or is it
more silence?”
Khairy said Anwar and Kit Siang would continue to skirt and fudge the Zulkifli
issue because they did not want to address it during the Permatang Pauh
by-election.
“They want to keep up pretences, showing the nation that everything is hunky
dory in the Pakatan Rakyat camp.”
Khairy said this had exposed the marriage of convenience (Pakatan) for the sham
that it is.
He added that PAS had already made clear that it was unhappy with the dominance
of PKR and DAP in states governed by the Pakatan alliance with its senior
leaders questioning Anwar’s suitability as Prime Minister.
“For all its talk of a new Malaysia and a real alternative against Barisan
Nasional, Pakatan Rakyat remains a politically expedient arrangement among
strange bedfellows bound not by a shared ideology but by a common lust for
power.
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