Anwar - the millionaire turncoats......

As expected, PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim revealed nothing much about the lawmakers who had defected, but vowed that he would release the information one at a time.

"I will expose them soon, little by little, like how I exposed the Lingam tape," he said at a ceramah in Tanah Merah, Kelantan last night, referring to a video clip of the shamed lawyer caught having a telephone conversation with former chief justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim on judicial appointments. But curiously, he dropped the name of Bagan Serai MP Mohsin Fadzli Samsuri who quit the party on March 3 to become a 'BN-friendly independent', but stopped short of elaborating more.

“I will expose these rogue lawmakers who had betrayed the rakyat's trust and had resigned for a few million ringgit. For example, Bagan Serai. Trust me, I have the evidence,” he said.

Anwar had yesterday released a statement saying that PKR would soon reveal that defecting MPs were offered RM2 million and multi-million ringgit government contracts.

Crowd there for Nik Aziz

Despite the presence of Pakatan Rakyat top guns at last night's ceramah, including DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang, it was PAS spiritual adviser Nik Aziz Nik Mat who enthralled the crowd of nearly 10,000. It was clear that the mainly ketayap-wearing supporters were there for Nik Aziz, who is also the Kelantan menteri besar, but the other Pakatan leaders did their level best to keep the crowd entertained.

Anwar also attempted to play to the gallery of rural Malay folk who had filled up an entire football field, but appeared to have momentarily lost the crowd when he began talking about the multi-billion ringgit subsidies for the independent power producers (IPPs).

He also spoke on his oft-used issues that would traditionally tug the Malay heartstrings such as Apco and its links with Israel as well as poverty. But the recent uproar over the slashing of subsidies has proven to be fodder for the opposition leader, who charged that Minister in Prime Minister's Department Idris Jala's prediction that the country could become bankrupt by 2019, was due to corruption and mismanagement by the BN government.

“First they take away the Kelantan oil royalty, and now they want to take away the subsidies meant to alleviate the poor.

“The Umno government has no problems with stopping subsidies for essential goods, and yet they give out sports-betting licences,” he lamented.

Defending DAP

In his 45-minute speech, Anwar also tried to address the doubts and perception of the Malay voters that working with DAP would make the other Pakatan partners un-Islamic.

“The Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng had yesterday announced that he would ban sports betting in his state,” he said.

“Here is a non-Muslim banning what is haram, whilst it is a Muslim prime minister who allowed it.”

Calling the perception of "un-Islamic" as lies perpetuated by Umno, Anwar said that in Lim's two and a half years' tenure as Penang CM, he had given aid to Islamic religious schools when former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad had, at one point in office, stopped aid to madrasahs.
-Regina Lee

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source:malaysiakini

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