Gerakan: Malacca CM a bully with double standards
Published: Sep 6, 2011 5:05 AM | Updated: Sep 6, 2011 5:19 AM
Gerakan Youth secretary-general Dr Dominic Lau today launched a broadside against Malacca Chief Minister Mohd Ali Rustam for what he claims as double standards against his party.
Gerakan Youth secretary-general Dr Dominic Lau today launched a broadside against Malacca Chief Minister Mohd Ali Rustam for what he claims as double standards against his party.
On August 24, Mohd Ali (left) had told the press immediately after a meeting with MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek that BN stood a better chance of winning if the Bachang seat was given to Umno or MCA to contest.
The seat was contested by Gerakan's Wendy Ngo Kim Hua in the 2008 general election but she was narrowly defeated by DAP's Lim Jak Wong by 517 votes.
Ali Rustam's forthrightness has not gone down well with Gerakan.
"When it comes to Bachang, Ali Rustam behaved in a very unfriendly manner by giving pressure to Gerakan," said Lau in a statement, adding that obviously, Ali Rustam practices double standards and bullied the weak.
Describing the chief minister's statement as "hilarious" and "ridiculous", Lau dismissed the claim that Gerakan was not strong enough to wrestle back the state seat as just Mohd Ali's personal opinion.
"Gerakan is very confident to win the Bachang constituency, hence, I hereby urge Ali Rustam to stop making all these destructive and demoralising remarks. As chairman of BN Malacca, he should be helpful and supportive of Gerakan and not continue hitting Gerakan."
The Bachang constituency is the only state seat in Malacca that is traditionally contested by the party.
However, Gerakan in Malacca, like its counterpart in the party's home state of Penang, was completely wiped out in the last general election.
Lau also lamented that when PPP had requested for MCA's state seat of Kota Laksamana, Mohd Ali had politely promised to discuss it with MCA but Gerakan has not been extended the same consideration.
"I don't understand why the Malacca chief minister is so courteous to MCA yet to unreasonable to Gerakan," said Lau.
On August 24, Mohd Ali (left) had told the press immediately after a meeting with MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek that BN stood a better chance of winning if the Bachang seat was given to Umno or MCA to contest.The seat was contested by Gerakan's Wendy Ngo Kim Hua in the 2008 general election but she was narrowly defeated by DAP's Lim Jak Wong by 517 votes.
Ali Rustam's forthrightness has not gone down well with Gerakan.
"When it comes to Bachang, Ali Rustam behaved in a very unfriendly manner by giving pressure to Gerakan," said Lau in a statement, adding that obviously, Ali Rustam practices double standards and bullied the weak.
Describing the chief minister's statement as "hilarious" and "ridiculous", Lau dismissed the claim that Gerakan was not strong enough to wrestle back the state seat as just Mohd Ali's personal opinion.
"Gerakan is very confident to win the Bachang constituency, hence, I hereby urge Ali Rustam to stop making all these destructive and demoralising remarks. As chairman of BN Malacca, he should be helpful and supportive of Gerakan and not continue hitting Gerakan."
The Bachang constituency is the only state seat in Malacca that is traditionally contested by the party.
However, Gerakan in Malacca, like its counterpart in the party's home state of Penang, was completely wiped out in the last general election.
Lau also lamented that when PPP had requested for MCA's state seat of Kota Laksamana, Mohd Ali had politely promised to discuss it with MCA but Gerakan has not been extended the same consideration.
"I don't understand why the Malacca chief minister is so courteous to MCA yet to unreasonable to Gerakan," said Lau.
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