An opposition member of parliament today questioned whether the recent police operation targetting opposition lawmakers was aimed at getting them disqualified as MPs.

Beruas MP Ngeh Koo Ham (below) said he was worried to note that there could be a grand design behind the recent spate of police action to either call in or arrest opposition figures under the Sedition Act.

"With all these frivolous charges against us, and after being found guilty by the courts, we cannot contest in the next general election. Is there a plan? I'm asking the IGP (Khalid Abu Bakar) to answer," said Ngeh.

He also wanted to know if 'the plan' included disqualifying all the main oppostion MPs as election candidates thus robbing Pakatan Rakyat of all its leaders.

"This is so we don't have suitable candidates for the next election [...] I ask him (the IGP) is that the plan?" he asked.

Ngeh was speaking to reporters after accompanying his fellow MP, Nga Kor Ming, to the Bukit Aman federal police headquarters to have his (Nga's) statement recorded.

'Do not harass us'

Nga is the latest to be called in to give a statement following his tweet on the Anwar Ibrahim Sodomy II verdict earlier this month.

Nga criticized the police for'harassment' in requiring him to turn up at Bukit Aman instead of Ipoh - which is nearer to his constituency of Taiping - to record his statement.

“Do not harass us like this, because I have already said that I am was more than willing to record my statement in Ipoh. This should not happen and is unreasonable," Nga told reporters present (above).

Nga was ticked off after police turned up at his Chinese New Year open house at the DAP headquarters in Ipoh yesterday to serve him a notice to appear at Bukit Aman today.

Nga had his handphone confiscated by police today after his statement was recorded for the Sedition Act probe against him.

“I see no reason why they should confiscate my hand phone as I already admitted the tweet is by me [...] unless they have some hidden agenda, I don't know,” Nga added.

The lawmaker called on the police to be 'focussed on their prime duty' which was to combat crime instead of harassing opposition leaders.

Twitter target

Nga was zeroed in on Twitter by Khalid himself, who tweeted that Nga 'was deliberately inviting action (to be taken against him)' and that he (Nga) will be probed under Sedition Act.

Other than Nga, PKR Vice-president Rafizi Ramli and Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) secretary-general S Arutchelvam have also been hauled up following their remarks on Anwar Ibrahim's conviction and jail term.

Meanwhile, Rafizi (centre in pix below) who was also called to Bukit Aman today to  have his statement recorded, sarcastically called on the government to ban social media altogether as he said 'it would enable the police to resume their proper duties'.

“If you ban Facebook and Twitter altogether, the police would have no excuse but to be on the streets and go after real crime," he told reporters outside Bukit Aman.

The Pandan MP said the current persecution over social media comments under the guise of a sedition probe was 'extremely selective' and urged for a more impartial investigation.

"If you want to really monitor and police cyberspace and social media, at the very least is do it against everyone,” Rafizi said.

Rafizi told the reporters present that police confiscated his handphone, too, after recording his statement.

The lawmaker is being investigated for sedition over his tweet posted on the day of Anwar’s sodomy verdict which showed the silhouette of a man wearing a judge’s wig with dollar signs.