When I read the Malaysian Insider report “Palanivel offered senatorship, likely deputy minister’s post” in return for not being fielded as Barisan Nasional candidate in Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election, I immediately stood up in Parliament to protest at the political abuse and corruption signified by such a deal.
Parliament had just completed the division on the vote on the Foreign Ministry estimates during the committee stage of the debate on the 2010 supplementary estimates, and was starting debate on the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industries.
I said that if there could be such blatant and cynical abuse of public trust and offices like Senatorship and Deputy Ministerships, what public confidence is there that there won’t be gross abuse of budget allocations approved by Parliament whether for the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industries or other ministries.
I called on the Hulu Selangor voters to teach the Barisan Nasional and MIC leaderships a severe lesson by voting against the Barisan Nasional candidate in the by-election to protest against such breach of trust and flagrant disregard of the most rudimentary notions of ethical and honest political standards.
This brought the House down and pandemonium ensued. When the BN MP for Sri Gading Datuk Mohd Aziz stood up to object, I challenged him to protest and denounce the cheap and dirty politics of buy-and-sell of political offices as illustrated by the offer of Senatorship and Deputy Ministership to Palanivel for not be fielded as BN candidate for Hulu Selangor by-election, he was stumped and said nothing.
When I asked those who supported me in condemning the blatant “market trading” of political offices in the case of Palanivel to stand up in the House, all Pakatan Rakyat MPs from PKR, PAS and DAP stood up – except for BN MPs!
The issue is now in the hands of the Hulu Selangor voters on April 25, 2010.
All those BN monkeys who lost in the 12 GE must also be appointed as senators and then inducted into the cabinet as deputy ministers! No money to pay their salaries? Just bring on the GST!
k 1980, you’re right!
All these riff-raffs are in the cabinet!
No wonder the Federal government is a complete disgrace!
The root cause of our problems, for decades, is the couldn’t care less and self-serving UMNO/BN government!
If you want a better future, just dump them!
Trading Senatorship posts like this is wrong. This sounds like corruption – can MACC comment on this ? Senators should be ELECTED, Pakatan Rakyat, put this in your next manifesto. Let’s have the “Fourth Vote”. Give the power back to the people. At the moment the Dewan Negara is a house of rejects.
These BN guys don’t get it they have stake so much on Hulu Selangor. I thought PR stake was bigger but now.
Come GE 13, MIC and MCA fractious politics means that lots of people will be bucking for the same treatment. It will be a nightmare.
Even worst if BN don’t win Hulu Selangor. Palanivel is going to say its not his fall and still want his Senator/DPM. It will be double nightmare with MIC, MCA, Gerakan, in Sarawak and Sabah feudal lords will go crazy..
Seriously, if Zaid wins this one, you can almost guarantee PR walking into Putrajaya come GE 13…
Don’t think PR, esp PKR, hv saints among their elected politicians
Hv a close look at Kedah – another elected PKR politician jumped ship
Very soon, we might C another Perak in Kedah, d eclipse of BN b4 d next GE
This time barter trade, next time is going to be “money trade” meaning I will offer you senatorship if you give so many $$$$$.
Corruption is so deeply entrenched in BN that they have completely become numb to the word “corruption”.
Oops! #5
if you give so many $$$$$
should be
if you give ME so many $$$$$.
Kit,
keep you house in order . one by one your men jump ship . today tan wei shu , tomorrow may another 2 or 3 .
BN should fired Sam and MIC and let them join Anwar .
MIC leader said “it is not a threat but a firm stand to defend MIC’s dignity”
A VERY COURAGEOUS STATEMENT AND DEFINITELY, DESERVED TO BE APPLAUDED.
Samy Malu, be a hero among your “BEGGAR Partners”, show them, what you are made of, RESIGN AS PRESIDENT OF MIC, BETTER STILL, MOVE MIC OUT OF BN COALITION!
GOT THE BALLS?!! THE INDIAN COMMUNITY IS WAITING FOR THEIR SHINNING STAR TO LED THEM OUT OF THE WILDERNESS…HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BE A CHAMPION NOT ONLY TO THE INDIANS BUT, TO ALL TRUE MALAYSIANS.
MIC you are a piece of SH#T! All show, talk big….
chengho, you got company!…Eunch Samy Malu, at least his is well camouflaged in the nights!!
The sandiwara being played out by the UMNO/MIC goons is a blatant disregard of all norms that form the pillars in a coalition of like minded parties. MIC’s choice of its candidate is thrown out by Big Brother UMNO’s warlord, the DPM. His choice of a candidate is not acceptable to the MIC. The MIC declares that if its candidate is not acceptable to UMNO, it would not support UMNO’s MIC candidate.
In the first place what has UMNO got to do with the choice of the candidate from MIC?
Why is the mandore, useless Velu backtracking and accepting an alternate candidate?
What was all the talk of Tamil and MIC dignity and the threat to boycot the bye election if Palanivelu was not accepted as the BN candidate?
This is what happens to coalition partners who do not have the balls to stand up and counted as equal partners in a coalition.
This is the result of decades of leaders from the MIC, MCA, GERAKAN and PPP who were willing to kneel in front of the UMNO warlords just to be able to get the crumbs and little perks to satisfy their craven wants.
This is what happens when leaders do not have any dignity, morals or the intergrity to stand for the rights of the people they represent.
A senatorship (backdoor entry to the government) or an assistant minister’s post is all that the thieves who lost in the 12th GE aspire to be.
These despicable politicians are not leaders but thieves practising the fine art of horsetrading.
Malaysians would be better off without these parasites and leaches.
All the more reason that the BN candidate must lose the Hulu Selangor bye-election.
Vote for the Opposition.
Vote for CHANGE.
Vote for a better future.
MIC-key velu, aiyoyo, boycott neh? chakap chakap manyak manyak boleh la ane.
it is good to see the united front put up by pas, pkr and dap. this is what people like to see. it feels good.
senatorship given away just like that. now we can see how cheap BN is. no need merits, just toe the line and whalla…new title-ship. no wonder we have so many useless datuk seri, tan sri and tak-guna seri
Hanjin Chengho, a mama topper, is damn happy as he could get more paychecks from those jumping ship!!!! F$!&#(@K your ancestors deeply!! A damn running dog will butchered & skinned off pretty soon…..
Perhaps UMNO presidency can be auction off too….
UMNO Presidency for sale…….Reserved Price:RM5 million
RM5Mil……. anyone?
Yes …we got a bidder – Mr X for RM5 million
Calling 0nce….calling twice…
RM6 million -Mr Y bidded UMNO presidency for RM6 million….
any higher bidder? RM6million….calling once…
RM7 million – by Mr Z…..
RM7 million…calling once…calling twice…..
RM10 million -bidded by Mr Z
calling once…calling twice……calling thrice….Sold!!! Mr X is the UMNO president!
That’s what UMNO call it “money politic”………
Remember Chengho was a eunuch in ancient China.
There are many eunuchs in malaysia who abuse powers and trade them.
Throw out UmnoUtusans
It’s highly insulting to the the party as money is being used to measure against dignity.
Has this been the culture of the big brother? ..jz like what Datuk Seri Shahzat has put it “I would like to offer my sympathies to senior citizens in Penang because they worth less than RM10 a month ..” – measuring people with money ??? Isn’t that every ringgit spent by federal or state belongs to rakyats’???
Shameless non stop abused of power by Najib since after 12th GE..non stop.
The worst double headed snakes anyone can find in the world..doing all the juggling and manuplating for their party’s sake….never for Malaysians benefits.
And it needs a eunuch like Chengho to show to Malaysians..what sh..t members they have.
There DPM goes again. First, inter-faith committee was a ‘small fry”, now Zaid is a featherweight.
Hello DPM, u think u can fly like a fly? For all intents and purposes, u r as light as a fly yrself though yr body is even bigger than Zaid. Awfully ‘kurang ajar’ of u to insult another’s body-lah. Why don’t u resign yr Muar seat and contest against Zaid in Ulu Selangor. Let’s see then if yr wings don’t get clipped. We shud know then who is the real fly.
Kamal vs Zahid ? ask Zahid to kiss TGNA hand , this is local politic Hulu Selangor not KB battle field ,Kit knew from beginning that why he wasn’t there when Anwar made the announcement , can you dig it?
Hello DPM, jawab-lah!
Zaid: “During my brief tenure as minister, (Tun) Pak Lah and I suggested that Cabinet Ministers should declare their assets to show that BN Ministers are clean and not afraid of full accountability and transparency. Many senior ministers opposed this. They opposed everything good that Pak Lah wanted to do. I wonder what the DPM has to say about this now.”
Hello DPM, did u oppose this? Can u show yr asets & bank accounts to Malaysians. Simple challenge from Zaid. Jawab-lah, jawab.
I’m apolitical but a man of Zaid’s caliber should no doubt be many times more useful to the august house than some of the current Kera. Whatever said and done, we have a man who is sincere and honest. If the DPM dares to challenge Ziad, let them have a debate in the TV- live!!!
So how may cows, goats, chickens etc was traded for a Deputy Minister’s post?
Remember Samy Vellu’s ayam kambing “beg”?
Human-trafficking has been a culture for a long time already, not to mention prostitution and what not. This is the trade-mark of Bodohland.
Typical of BN racist mentality – must hv an Indian rep 2 serve Indians n nonMalay candidates r given a chance 2 stand bcos of mercy n pity fr UmnoB
Right now, d Indians hv too many NATO chiefs, all want 2 b bosses n 2 b garlanded
Hopefully d PR candidate wins n shows all M’sians dat, consistent with PR practice, he can serve all constituents there, regardless of ethnicity
We hv 2 get out of this divide n rule culture of BN
We also don’t need other new race- or religion-based political parties
Semi Value has no shame. It’s obvious UMNO doesn’t want a candidate aligned to Semi Value, so they end up with a “neutral” candidate instead.
Word on the street is that UMNO was searching for an Indian candidate who could be manipulated by UMNO. Their priority was to look for an Indian who is also Muslim, but then all the mamaks had already joined UMNO to prove their Malay-ness. So UMNO did the next best thing – find a candidate who has a Malay-sounding name.
Now all the mainstream papers are calling the BN candidate “Kamal”. Helloooooooo……his name is “Nathan”…..
When OhMama step out the plane, Hanjin Chengho bring along his mama & show their doggy styles to OhMama….. “Chengho then ask OhMama, our styles are at par with your Yank styles….” Hanjin Chengho’s purposes to show off their various styles are to expect another big Paycheck from OhMama…. This how Hanjin Chengho earn side incomes…
As a reward for pulling out of the by-election race
The defeated incumbent is offered a senator/minister appointment
Acting like cattle being traded at market place
This is an unbecoming act of the government
The defeated MP and KTK too really have the thick face
To become cabinet minister through this backdoor arrangement
The corrupt govt has brought upon itself disgrace
Vote in PR for our nation’s future betterment
You want to know the biggest joke? The Indians are going to ask – how do we know that you can get what they ask or promise if UMNO can say no to you like they do now? Who this Kala guy that we can count on him to get what Hulu Selangor want if even Samy Vellu gets turned away?
Zaid can get much more from Selangor state AND the Malays are going to support him. Why the hell would the Indians not vote for Zaid?
I would love to see the BN candidate losing his deposit.
I would love to see BN candidates loosing all deposits in Sabah too..in the coming 13th GE.
With that…Sabah Malaysians can then say….go to hell with sodomy change on Anwar and corruptions…and pay what’s worth to LKS and all…for the people and country.
Will Sabahans think of all as one..or support Najib’s “1Malaysia” double headed snake interpretations?
no more face….how can come back , give the younger fellas a chance , CHANGE lah , isn’t it the slogan on 308.
Now come and unchanged , what is this a joke ka, this is new malaysia future.