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- Pakatan rep wants Liu to resign over Batu Caves condo controversy
- Samy Vellu implicated in alleged land grab in Selangor
- PAS Ulama: Pakatan cannot ignore views expressed during muktamar
- Rafizi to meet HK’s anti-corruption officials tomorrow
| Pakatan rep wants Liu to resign over Batu Caves condo controversy Posted: 20 Nov 2012 12:38 AM PST
(The Star) - State Local Government committee chairman Ronnie Liu has been challenged to resign if he is not able to stop the controversial 29-storey condominium project in Batu Caves. The dare came from his Pakatan Rakyat ally, Kota Raja assemblyman M Manoharan, at the state assembly sitting on Tuesday. "The temple is a national heritage. It is obvious that the people do not want the project or any other projects to be build next to the temple complex. "Therefore, if the project is not scrapped, will you resign?" Manoharan said in a supplementary question. Liu replied saying resignation should not be the issue. "What is important is that the project must be stopped and the state (government) is doing its best." "There is a lot to consider. For instance, the project cannot be scrapped as more than 60% of the units had been sold. "If the project is stopped, the state and federal government will have to compensate the developer," he said. Liu pointed out that the federal government also had the power to stop the project by revoking the developer's advertising license and sales permit.
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| Samy Vellu implicated in alleged land grab in Selangor Posted: 19 Nov 2012 06:03 PM PST
Zurairi AR, The Malaysian Insider Selangor backbenchers today accused Barisan Nasional component parties and former MIC President Datuk Seri Samy Vellu of allegedly being involved in land grabs when BN was still in power in the state. The allegation involves 24 plots of public land in seven out of nine districts in Selangor, which were acquired by branches and divisions of Umno, MCA, MIC and Gerakan between 2000 and 2008 when the state government was administered by BN. Sekinchan assemblyman Ng Suee Lim challenged the BN component parties to return the land to the public to prove that they really have the interests of the people at heart. "They have to prove that they are true fighters who are sincere to the people ... not give empty talk ... fighting for the people, but then grab their land," he said. Each plot of land measures up to seven acres and has a collective total area of around 33.5 acres, mostly in commercial areas. The plots were allegedly sold for only RM1 per square foot — amounting to around RM1.5 million in total — despite being worth at least RM20 million collectively on the market, Ng said. "All of them are high value properties ... after Umno, MCA, MIC and Gerakan obtained the land, they would immediately enter joint-ventures (to develop them) or sell them off for tens of thousands or millions of profit," accused Ng. Of the 24 plots, 15 are now owned by Umno branches or divisions, with six of them going to Umno Sungai Besar division, which was led by former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Khir Toyo. "This shows that Umno is the king of land robbers," Sri Muda assemblyman Shuhaimi Shafiei said. MCA holds five plots, MIC three and Gerakan one. Datuk Seri Samy Vellu, together with an S Subramaniam and the late Tan Sri SOK Ubaidullah, who was one of MIC's founders, are named as the trustees for a 2,832 square metre plot in Kuala Selangor. The biggest plot in the list is a seven-acre piece of land in Klang, which is owned by the Umno Kota Raja division, followed by a 6.5-acre plot in Batu 14, Puchong, which is owned by the Umno Puchong division.
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| PAS Ulama: Pakatan cannot ignore views expressed during muktamar Posted: 19 Nov 2012 02:57 PM PST
(The Star) - The PAS Ulama wing has stepped up its call for their party president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang to be the Prime Minister if Pakatan Rakyat wins in the coming polls. The wing said Pakatan Rakyat could not ignore the views of PAS' one million members. "If PAS wins the most number of seats, naturally members expect the candidate to be picked from PAS. "However, Pakatan has yet to make a collective decision on the candidate for the top post if the coalition succeeds in capturing Putrajaya. The party has to abide by the decision," said Ulama Council vice-chief Datuk Dr Mahfodz Mohamed yesterday in response to objections from DAP leaders over Abdul Hadi as Prime Minister if the coalition comes to power. Ousted PAS leader Datuk Dr Hassan Ali warned that there would be a revolt in PAS if the Opposition parties reject Abdul Hadi when PAS wins the most number of seats in the election. "If Pakatan truly practises democracy, it should listen to the voice of the majority, and not the voice of a few top leaders in the Opposition," he added. PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu said the final decision would be made by the Pakatan leadership. "It is too early to broach the subject, as we must win first. What if Abdul Hadi and Anwar lose in the election? "Then perhaps even I can be the Prime Minister," he said. Meanwhile, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said it had always been Pakatan's stand that the candidate for the Prime Minister's post would be the Opposition Leader. "We stick by what has been agreed," he told reporters at the Parliament lobby yesterday. DAP chairman Karpal Singh said Abdul Hadi should stick to the consensus that Anwar be appointed Prime Minister if Pakatan comes to power. "PAS should do likewise without being told because the position has been accepted all along," he said in a telephone interview yesterday. He said Anwar was the most qualified and acceptable person to take on the role because he had the experience in government administration as the former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. In KUALA TERENGGANU, state PAS commissioner Abdul Wahid Endut said Abdul Hadi was the best choice for the Prime Minister's post because he has no moral issues to contend with. "In the Islamic point of view, there's no one better," he said. However, Abdul Wahid said such hopes largely depended on the outcome of the general election. "We should focus on winning the election first. If PAS wins the majority of seats, he would be the logical choice," he added.
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| Rafizi to meet HK’s anti-corruption officials tomorrow Posted: 19 Nov 2012 02:20 PM PST The PKR whistleblower will meet with Hong Kong anti-corruption officials and politicians tomorrow over the RM40 million Michael Chia scandal. Patrick Lee, FMT PKR whistleblower Rafizi Ramli will travel to Hong Kong tomorrow as part of his quest to find answers over the alleged RM40 million Sabah Umno scandal. He said that the two-day trip will see him, PKR MPs William Leong (Selayang) and Hee Loy Sian (Petaling Jaya Selatan) and state assemblyman Chang Li Kang (Teja) meet with the Independent Commissions Against Corruption's (ICAC) Operations Review Committee (ORC). "The review committee can direct the ICAC to divulge certain information…We are going to get to the bottom of this," he told reporters at the National Oversight and Whistleblowers centre. Rafizi said that the committee, which was made out of ICAC-independent members, had the power to get the ICAC to take another look into closed investigations. Additionally, he and the PKR lawmakers would also meet with Hong Kong Legislative Council opposition members, including Leung Kwok-Heung (League of Social Democrats), James To Kun-Sun (Democratic Party), Raymond Wong Yuk-Man (People's Power) and Civic Party leaders. According to him, the trip, which would see him return to KL on Friday, had two objectives: to query if the ICAC's investigation of timber tycoon Michael Chia was stonewalled by the Malaysian government, and to re-open the 2008 case. In 2008, Chia was supposedly caught by ICAC officers for trying to smuggle RM40 million in Singapore dollars to Malaysia. In October this year, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Abdul Aziz told Parliament that Chia had never been arrested, clearing him of corruption. This prompted Rafizi to reveal that Nazri's family had been using a RM459,000 Hummer vehicle that Chia owned, leaving the PKR strategic director to wonder if Nazri was in fact linked money-wise to the timber tycoon. Previously, the PKR leader also alleged that ICAC's investigation had been dropped after three years because of a supposed lack of cooperation by the Malaysian government.
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