PM deals Kayveas a blow
Published: May 26, 2009 6:53 AM | Updated: May 26, 2009 8:10 AM
PPP which has been sailing in troubled waters was hit by another storm today, this time from Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
PPP which has been sailing in troubled waters was hit by another storm today, this time from Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
The premier told reporters that he had been invited to officiate the Barisan Nasional component party's general assembly on June 7.
However, the BN chairperson said he would have to check the status of the party first.
"I will verify PPP's status with the Registrar of Societies (ROS) first (before deciding on whether to attend the assembly)," he was quoted as saying by Bernama.
For a long time, tension had been brewing between PPP's vocal president M Kayveas and the party's rising stalwart T Murugiah, who is also deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.
Murugiah, who heads the public complaints bureau is popular with the masses and the party grassroots. He was rumoured to be eyeing the top post in PPP, much to the chagrin of Kayveas.
De-registration threat
Following this, the PPP supreme council sacked Murugiah after he said that the ROS might de-register the party because its records have not been updated.
It was even alleged that Kayveas' own branch Tupai Lane in Taiping could face a similar fate.
On Sunday, Murugiah got himself elected as "president" at an emergency general meeting in Putrajaya, attended by 1,784 delegates.
Kayveas retorted by saying that the EGM was illegal as Murugiah had failed to notify the party secretary-general about it while his own branch had been de-registered by the ROS.
Murugiah said he would leave it to the ROS to decide whether the EGM was lawful and he was the rightful PPP president.
Kayveas - a former deputy minister who got wiped out in the March 8, 2008 polls - and Murugiah will be meeting Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin today.
Police report filed
In a related development, PPP Johor chairperson Dr K Siva Kumar filed a police report against Murugiah claiming that the latter had misused a permit to organise Sunday's emergency meet.
After filing his report at the Johor Sentral police station, he told reporters that the police permit was given to hold a meeting with the public but it was turned into an EGM.
Siva also said that the EGM was not valid since there was no 14-day notice issued to the branches.
He also claimed that a majority of those who attended were not PPP members.
Previously, two police reports were filed over the EGM.
The premier told reporters that he had been invited to officiate the Barisan Nasional component party's general assembly on June 7.However, the BN chairperson said he would have to check the status of the party first.
"I will verify PPP's status with the Registrar of Societies (ROS) first (before deciding on whether to attend the assembly)," he was quoted as saying by Bernama.
For a long time, tension had been brewing between PPP's vocal president M Kayveas and the party's rising stalwart T Murugiah, who is also deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.
Murugiah, who heads the public complaints bureau is popular with the masses and the party grassroots. He was rumoured to be eyeing the top post in PPP, much to the chagrin of Kayveas.
De-registration threat
Following this, the PPP supreme council sacked Murugiah after he said that the ROS might de-register the party because its records have not been updated.
It was even alleged that Kayveas' own branch Tupai Lane in Taiping could face a similar fate.On Sunday, Murugiah got himself elected as "president" at an emergency general meeting in Putrajaya, attended by 1,784 delegates.
Kayveas retorted by saying that the EGM was illegal as Murugiah had failed to notify the party secretary-general about it while his own branch had been de-registered by the ROS.
Murugiah said he would leave it to the ROS to decide whether the EGM was lawful and he was the rightful PPP president.
Kayveas - a former deputy minister who got wiped out in the March 8, 2008 polls - and Murugiah will be meeting Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin today.
Police report filed
In a related development, PPP Johor chairperson Dr K Siva Kumar filed a police report against Murugiah claiming that the latter had misused a permit to organise Sunday's emergency meet.
After filing his report at the Johor Sentral police station, he told reporters that the police permit was given to hold a meeting with the public but it was turned into an EGM.
Siva also said that the EGM was not valid since there was no 14-day notice issued to the branches.
He also claimed that a majority of those who attended were not PPP members.
Previously, two police reports were filed over the EGM.
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