It appears that former PPP Youth chief T Murugiah has hit a snag in his bid to establish himself as the president of the party.

According to a source, the Registrar of Societies (ROS) has refused to recognise his so-called Emergency General Meeting on May 24.

kayveas murugiah pppThe source said the ROS has stated this in the report which is now with Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.

He added that PPP party president M Kayveas and his two vice-presidents Maglin D'Cruz and Lee Heng had attended the Barisan Nasional supreme council meeting today and Kayveas has been briefed on this matter.

It is learned that Hisahammuddin will discuss the matter with BN chief and Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak before officially making a public announcement on the ROS report.

Membership recruitment illegal

"ROS only recognises Kayveas as the legitimate PPP leader and this means that Murugiah is without a party and all his attempts to recruit members on a so-called parallel PPP party is illegal.

"He (Murugiah) had wanted to attend various state BN meetings but has been denied entry. He has hoodwinked the so-called members that he had recruited into believing that due recognition will be given by ROS in due time.

"But now ROS is only recognising PPP members that have been approved by Kayveas," added the source.

There has a running battle of words between Kayveas and Murugiah as to their claims of being the rightful president after the PPP's supreme council sacked Murugiah.

Murugiah had crisscrossed the country to recruit members for his so-called party and had claimed that the figures are in the thousands.

Early this month, Kayveas took Murugiah to task, urging the latter to confront him directly instead of using his supporters to issue press releases.

The president has since filed defamation suits against seven of Murugiah's supporters.