DAP decries ROS' week-long silence after ordering re-election

The Registrar of Societies (ROS) has apparently snubbed DAP's request for an official notice after its director-general Mohammed Razin Abdullah on July 7 declared in the media that the party must hold a re-election.

DAP national legal bureau chief Gobind Singh Deo said his party did not receive any official notification as of 5pm yesterday, a week since Razin said the DAP must hold another re-election.

"It appears as if the ROS (director-general) has no basis to support his decision, nor the basic professional courtesy to write to us officially to communicate that decision to us," Gobind said in a statement today. He also demanded that Razin resign.

Previously, Gobind had said that an official notice from ROS was "absolutely essential" as it will have to clearly spell out the premise of its decision as well as the directive that DAP will need to comply with...