Jejambat runtuh dekat Cyberjaya - Angkara siapa...

Satu jejambat di kawasan dekat Selangor Science Park 2 Interchange, Cyberjaya runtuh dalam satu kejadian petang ini.

Difahamkan kejadian itu berlaku pada 1 tengah hari dan ia tidak mengganggu sebarang lalu lintas.

Laporan China Press pula menyebut jejambat berkenaan yang dibuka sebelum ini ditutup untuk pembaikan apabila keretakan dikesan di permukaan jalannya.

An overhead flyover near Selangor Science Park, Cyberjaya, heading towards Aman Putra has collapsed this afternoon.

Selangor Development Corporation (PKNS) general manager Othman Omar confirmed that the structure collapsed at 12.30pm and there were no casualties.

According to him, the project commenced in 2007 and was completed in 2009, following which it was handed over to PLUS and Malaysia Highway Authority.

The four developers are PKNS, Unduh Aspirasi, Taraf Unggul and Semai Ria.

The flyover was opened for use in 2009 but has been closed since December 2012 after the management detected that the pillars had shown some "movements". - malaysiakini

PKNS awarded Cyberjaya flyover contract to Khir Toyo crony?

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Rafizi Ramli (Strategic Director of PKR) vs Gan Ping Sieu (Vice President of MCA)

tonight 7.30pm,Corus Hotel, Jemput Hadir

 

cheers.

PI Bala dedah Najib dalang pembunuhan Altantuya...

Penyiasat persendirian, P Balasubramaniam (PI Bala) mendedahkan, ‘VVIP’ yang terlibat menjadi dalang di sebalik pembunuhan wanita Mongolia, Altantuya Shaariibu adalah Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Bala yang membuat pendedahan umum kali pertama malam tadi, sekembalinya ke tanah air Ahad lalu menceritakan kronologi pembunuhan Altantuya bermula beliau dipanggil bekerja oleh Abdul Razak Baginda.

Menurut Bala, Razak, sekutu rapat dan orang kepercayaan Najib yang ketika itu Timbalan Perdana Menteri mengarahkan supaya beliau melindungi rumah dan anaknya 24 jam selama 10 hari.

Beliau mendedahkan perbualan Razak bersama seorang individu ketika pertemuan mereka.

“Semasa (saya) bertemu Razak, dia menerima panggilan dari seseorang bernama ‘Tan’ yang mengugut akan mencederakan anak Razak jika beliau tidak membayar wang ‘wanita’ itu,” kata Bala, merujuk Altantuya. 

“Kemudian saya tanya kenapa tak buat laporan polis? Razak jawab tak boleh, sebab ada VVIP yang terlibat. Saya tanya lagi kenapa tak halang saja dia (Altantuya) dari masuk negara ini? 

Razak kata tak boleh, Altantuya ada banyak pasport,” kata Bala di hadapan 3,000 hadirin pada forum ‘Pendedahan: Siapa Arah Bunuh Altantuya?’ di Dewan Perhimpunan Cina Kuala Lumpur-Selangor (KLSCAH).

Menurut Bala lagi, Razak memberitahunya, Altantuya menuntut bayaran sebagai perantara dalam urusan pembelian kapal selam di Perancis sebanyak USD500 juta dan tiga tiket kapal terbang pulang ke Mongolia.

Kata Bala, kali terakhir dia melihat Altantuya pada 18 Oktober 2006 iaitu di hadapan rumah Razak.

“Sebelum itu Razak cakap, kalau Altantuya ada depan rumahnya, (saya perlu) mesej beliau (dahulu). Saya hantar SMS kepada Razak memberitahunya (tentang kehadiran Altantuya). Kemudian Razak kata ‘lengahkan dia, tunggu sampai orang saya sampai’,” kata Bala.

“20 minit kemudian, sebuah kereta Proton Aeroback warna merah tiba dengan seorang wanita dan dua lelaki. Wanita itu adalah Lans Korporal Rohaniza, dan dua orang lelaki itu adalah Azilah Hadri dan Sirul Azhar (Umar). Mereka semua berpakaian biasa. Azilah berjalan ke arah saya sementara dua yang lain menunggu dalam kereta,” jelas Bala.

“Azilah tanya saya dalam Bahasa Melayu: ‘inikah perempuan itu’, menyebabkan Altantuya tak faham apa yang kami cakap. Saya kata ‘ya’. Azilah pula berkata, mereka (tiga individu berkenaan) akan bawa Altantuya pergi. 

Saya beritahu Altantuya bahawa dia ditahan dan perlu mengikut mereka naik kereta tersebut. Altantuya masuk dan duduk di belakang bersama Korporal Rohaniza, manakala Azilah dan Sirul berada di depan,” kata Bala.

Azilah dan Sirul – kedua-dua mereka adalah anggota polis yang ditugaskan menjaga keselamatan Najib. Mereka bersama-sama disabitkan kesalahan membunuh Altantuya di kawasan hutan di Shah Alam, hampir tujuh tahun lalu.

 Sah Najib terlibat

Menurut Bala lagi, beliau hanya mengetahui kematian Altantuya selepas dipanggil ke Ibu Pejabat Kontinjen (IPK) pada November 2006.

“Sewaktu (saya) bertemu Razak dan peguam Puvanendran, Razak menerima SMS dan menunjukkan kepada kami kandungan SMS itu – “Meeting IGP at 11am, be cool”. (Pada SMS itu) tertera nombor Datuk Seri Najib Razak. Maka terjawablah VVIP yang terlibat,” kata Bala disambut sorakan hadirin.

Mengesahkan lagi keterlibatan Najib, Bala memberitahu, adik Najib, Datuk Nazim Razak pernah berjumpanya, mengugut dan mengarahkan beliau menukar akuan bersumpah pertama.

“Saya dipanggil ke hotel untuk bertemu Nazim. Nazim tanya saya, kamu sayang keluarga kamukan? Saya jadi takut dengan soalan-soalan ugutan seperti itu dan memutuskan untuk membuat akuan bersumpah kedua,” jelas Bala yang meninggalkan Malaysia sejak 2009 disebabkan ugutan itu.

Forum anjuran Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) tersebut dipengerusikan Presiden Kumpulan Anak Muda Independan (Kami), Khalid Ismath.

Panelis melibatkan kartunis politik, Zunar; Pengarah Eksekutif Suaram, Cynthia Gabriel, manakala Penyelaras SAMM, Badrul Hisham Shaharin selaku moderator.

Hadir sama di kalangan pemimpin politik Pakatan Rakyat antaranya, Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Pandamaran, Ronnie Liu.

Kehadiran Bala disambut meriah penyokong pelbagai kaum yang melimpah hingga ke luar dewan.
Ekoran sambutan itu, penganjur memasang skrin di perkarangan dewan, supaya hadirin dapat sama mengikuti pendedahan yang dinanti-nantikan itu.

Turut sama mengambil peluang, para peniaga yang membuka gerai jualan seperti baju dan makanan.-keadilandaily

Altantuya: Hadirin teruja dengar pendedahan Bala

 PI Bala: Razak regretted not paying Altantuya...

Political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda apparently regretted not paying the US$500,000 in "commission" due to slain Mongolian Altantuya Shaaribuu, claimed former private investigator P Balasubramaniam.
He recounted Razak as allegedly saying this just prior to his arrest in 2006.

Balasubramaniam, employed by Razak then, was giving a blow-by-blow account of the circumstances surrounding Altantuya's death during his first public appearance last night after fleeing the country nearly five years ago.

He said he was leaving the office of a lawyer identified as Puravelan, with Razak, in a lift at that time. 

Newspapers were already speculating then about Razak (left) being arrested soon, and the lawyer was busy preparing his client for such an eventuality.

Upon hearing this, the private investigator supposedly told Razak, "Boss, look here. What was my advice to you? Police report. You should have done the police report."

Went against advice

Balasubramaniam explained that Razak had engaged him to keep Altantuya at bay, but the private eye advised him to lodge a police report instead.

However, Razak purportedly declined to do so because "a VVIP was involved," who was later revealed to be then defence minister and now Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Altantuya was said to be demanding US$500,000 (RM1,550,750) and three air tickets to Mongolia from Razak at the time, supposedly as "fees" for her role in mediating the Scorpene submarine deal.

Balasubramaniam said Razak did end up being arrested on Nov 7, the day the conversation took place, just 30 minutes upon reaching his office at Bangunan Getah Asli, Kuala Lumpur after the meeting.

He was eventually charged and acquitted of allegedly abetting in Altantuya's murder, while two police Special Action Unit (UTK) officers were sentenced to death for allegedly shooting Altantuya and blasting her remains with military-grade explosives.

Some 1,000 people crammed Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall's main hall last night to hear first-hand what Balasubramaniam had to say on the Mongolian's killing.

New revelations were few and far in between while Balasubramaniam often stumbled to find the right words and had to rely on a Powerpoint slide he had prepared since his return to recall some of the events.

Exposures entrance crowd

Nevertheless, the audience remained glued to their seats - or the floor if they couldn't find one - for nearly two hours until around 11.30pm as Balasubramaniam painstakingly went through the events.

This included what had transpired between him and Razak from their introduction until the arrest, the circumstances surrounding his first statutory declaration implicating Najib in the murder and a second statutory declaration made under duress to retract it, and further attempts to bribe him to slander opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

The audience appeared to be engaged by Balasubramaniam's version of the events, clapping and cheering at key points of his talk or whenever a prominent personality's name, like Najib, cropped up.

They also booed at a video of Najib denying any involvement in the incident that was screened as part of the prelude to the talk.

Other speakers included Suaram secretariat member Cynthia Gabriel and cartoonist Zulkiflee SM Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar.

During the talk, Balasubramaniam mentioned that he was alone with the commissioner of oaths during the second statutory declaration.

When event moderator Badrul Hisham Shaharin asked him about a lawyer supposedly involved in preparing the document, Balasubramaniam said he only knew of this through ‘hearsay' via businessperson Deepak Jaikishan, who had persuaded him to make the declaration.

"If you ask me, I don't know. I only heard the hearsay info because Deepak had already mentioned that it was Cecil Abraham (left)," he said, drawing cheers from the crowd.

He said his lawyer Americk Sidhu and human rights activist Haris Ibrahim had pressured the Bar Council to look into the allegation and its president Lim Chee Wee had asked him to give a statement.

"If everything goes right, Cecil Abraham's cover will be blown," he said. 

When approached by Malaysiakini last month, Cecil had refused to comment on the allegations. Malaysiakini is currently seeking Razak Baginda’s comments on the matter.-malaysiakini

The Bala Road show Begins...

P.I Bala, the private investigator who was hired by Razak Baginda to keep an eye on Altantuya has re-emerged. After disappearing for the best part of 4 years, his re-emergence is being greeted by the opposition enthusiastically and unsurprisingly, the BN end is trying its best to cast aspersions on his character.

The issue at hand has to be what PI Bala is about to say at Opposition ceramahs to be held up and down the country. He is expected to confess that Razak Baginda mentioned that Altantuya had been romantically linked to Najib before "being passed to him."

I don't want to go too much into what Bala says. Needless to say, everybody has heard about it.

What I do want to state is something that I had stated way back in December when the Deepak issue blew up. It is a simple fact that the Altantuya issue will intensify in the lead up to the General Election and unless UMNO gets rid of Najib, UMNO too will have to face the virus.

In terms of political damage, it seems that the Bala - Deepak issue is beginning to have an effect on the voters. After all, Najib's popularity rating fell a whopping 2% to its lowest on record as people begin to digest the serious allegations made against the Prime Minister. This was even after the BRIM handouts were being processed which indicates that BRIM has not had effect on the voters.

As a diversion, there is an economic reason why BRIM does not have an effect on the voters. Number one, it was expected so it was discounted. Number two, people had to work hard for it. They had to queue to fill in an application form and queue even longer to receive the cash. Number three, people know its all about buying their votes using public money.

BN is now getting hammered on all sides and from all angles.

We first start with the newest weapon to use against BN which is Project M. Dr Mahathir is now being directly accused of masterminding the entire plot. Contrary to what pro UMNO bloggers would have us believe, Tuns pathetic attempt to attack Tengku cut no ice with the voting public and over 9 in 10 people are deeply unhappy with BN for compromising national security in the name of political power. 

 

What's worse is that the allegations are coming at a time when he have been invaded by the same people whom were the beneficiaries of Project M. Its now almost a month in where our sovereignty is being trampled by the armed forces of the all powerful Sultanate of Sulu.   This really has opened the eyes of not only Sabahans, but Malaysians throughout the country on how low BN leaders will stoop to in order to seize power. The only thing to wait is the sound of BN controlled state and parliament seats falling like dominos on account of this.

The second is "Calon Winnable." Up and down the country, UMNO election rooms are on go slow mode as the people do not know who the eventual calon will be. To understand this we must first understand how UMNO organizes itself to face an election. The Division chief will assign an UMNO cawangan to each Peti Undi (Electoral Box). This grassroots movement will then be mobilized to beg for votes and campaign in fierce door to door fighting.

The good news here is that the Ketua Bahagian himself does not know who the calon is going to be. If it was him, all well and good - but right now there is the possibility that new people will be parachuted into his territory. This is nothing short of a personal insult to his "power" and will be met with stiff resistance in the form of boycotts and sabotage.

Deepak and Bala will be third issue. Already Najib is now known as an extremely weak leader who is increasingly willing to do almost anything to get support. The oppositions skilful attack on the "Are You Ready for Psy" issue caused a massive uproar within UMNO who are getting increasingly impatient with Najib's constant shifting. Deepak and Bala will form the dynamic duo who will act as the "opening act" in the Opposition ceramahs.

Bala's message has the necessary elements that will surely cause the Makciks and Pakciks to gasp in shock. All that is required is a calm point by point delivery, whom I am confident that either Deepak or Bala can deliver in a typically forthright manner.

After all, wasn't it not so long ago that a similar tactic was employed by UMNO through Saiful to bury Anwar Ibrahim. That my friend is the sweet irony in this business. - Sir Wenger Khairy@pirates-of-putrajaya.blogspot

PI Bala: Razak Baginda regretted refusing Altantuya US$500,000 commission

Rafizi Ramli (Strategic Director of PKR) vs Gan Ping Sieu (Vice President of MCA)

tonight 7.30pm,Corus Hotel, Jemput Hadir

 

cheers.

Bik Mama ‘diserang’ siswi UKM,cabut lari kot pintu belakang...

Sekumpulan mahasiswi daripada Ikatan Studi Islam Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (ISIUKM) hari ini telah melakukan protes aman di hadapan Dewan Canselor Tun Abdul Razak (Dectar) terhadap isteri Perdana Menteri, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.

Lebih kurang 50 orang mahasiswi telah berkumpul di hadapan dewan tersebut bagi menyatakan protes terhadap penyelewengan yang telah dilakukan oleh isteri pemimpin nombor satu negara itu.

Rosmah yang dikatakan hadir ke UKM bagi merasmikan program bersama mahasiswa UKM telah menerima tekanan hebat apabila sekumpulan mahasiswi telah berkumpul di luar dewan sambil memegang sepanduk dengan mesej menolak penyelewengan dan pembaziran duit rakyat yang didakwa telah dilakukan oleh beliau.

Mahasiswi itu dikatakan telah mula berkumpul di luar dewan pada jam 4 petang sebelum menyambut Rosmah yang dijadualkan akan habis program pada jam 4.30 petang. 

Sekumpulan pengawal keselamatan bersama staf kakitangan UKM cuba untuk menghalang protes itu daripada terus berlaku namun ternyata mereka gagal mengekang kehendak mahasiswi tersebut untuk terus melakukan protes secara aman itu.

Walau bagaimanapun, apa yang menghampakan mahasiswi tersebut adalah ‘ketakutan’ Rosmah untuk bertemu dengan mereka apabila beliau telah dibawa keluar secara senyap-senyap melalui belakang kereta-kereta yang diletakkan di sekitar dewan tersebut.

Rosmah yang hadir ke UKM dengan menaiki kereta Mercedez Benz mewah terpaksa balik dengan kenderaan biasa selepas terpaksa keluar dari dewan secara sembunyi.

“Perkara yang kita mahu hari ini hanya untuk menyatakan hasrat rakyat terhadap Datin Seri Rosmah, namun ternyata beliau begitu takut untuk bersemuka dengan kami.

“Walaupun kami tidak berjaya untuk bersemuka dengan Rosmah pada hari ini, namun kami telah berjaya membuat Rosmah balik dengan cara yang itu. Ini baru permulaan dari kami,” tegas Hamiza Hani Omar, Pengerusi Hal Ehwal Siswi ISIUKM merangkap Timbalan Setiausaha Agung Gamis.-harakahdaily

UKM students 'welcome' Rosmah with placards

 Tian Chua, Mat Sabu & 12 lagi dibebas tuduhan sertai Bersih 1.0...

Mahkamah Sesyen Kuala Lumpur hari ini membebaskan Ahli Parlimen (MP) Batu, Tian Chua dari tuduhan menyertai himpunan Bersih 1.0 pada 2007.
Dibebas sama, Timbalan Presiden PAS, Mohamad Sabu dan 12 lagi yang lain. Keputusan itu dibacakan Hakim Datuk Jagjit Singh Bant Singh.

Tian yang juga Naib Presiden KEADILAN dalam twitternya berkata, dua lagi individu, MP Padang Serai, N Gobalakrishnan dan seorang lagi Mohamad Harith Fathillah didapati bersalah kerana menyertai perhimpunan haram dan enggan bersurai. 

Mereka dituduh menyertai perhimpunan berkenaan anjuran Gabungan Pilihan Raya Bersih dan Adil (Bersih) di beberapa tempat, termasuk di perkarangan Masjid Negara, Jalan Istana Baru, Jalan Raja Laut dan berdekatan pusat beli-belah Sogo di Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman antara 1 tengahari dan 4 petang pada 10 November, 2007.

Mereka dituduh mengikut Seksyen 143 dan 145 Kanun Keseksaan, dengan tuduhan pilihan mengikut Seksyen 27(4) (a) Akta Polis 1967.

Mengikut Seksyen 143, jika sabit kesalahan, mereka boleh dihukum penjara maksimum enam tahun atau didenda atau kedua-duanya sekali.-keadilandaily

 

 Tian Chua, Mat Sabu and 13 others freed of illegal assembly charge...

The Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court has acquitted PKR vice-president Tian Chua, PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu and 12 others of participating in an illegal assembly during the Bersih rally in 2007, and refusing orders to disperse.

However, another two accused of the same charge, identified as Muhd Harith Fathillah Shahbudin and Padang Serai MP N Gobalakrishnan, were found guilty.

PAS party organ HarakahDaily quoted Judge Jagjit Singh Bant Singh’s decision today, who said that he was satisfied with Mohamad’s and Tian Chua’s testimonies and that there had been no impediment for them to submit the memorandum to the Agong during the protest.

The former, also popularly known as Mat Sabu (right), had reportedly told the court that he had the police’s permission to walk to the palace for the memorandum’s submission.

HarakahDaily also quoted Mohamad, who expressed regret over Gobalakrishnan’s and Harith’s conviction.

“What I want to say is, for any peaceful and unarmed rally, it is better that the attorney-general drops all such cases - whether old or recent - because the charging of such cases is no longer popular,” he was quoted as saying.

The report does not mention the penalty imposed for the two convictions.

A total of 17 people were initially charged for allegedly holding an illegal assembly and refusing to disperse during the Nov 4, 2007 rally at several places throughout Kuala Lumpur. However, one of them, Mohd Asri Ahmad, had since passed away in 2011.

Others who were also acquitted today are Mohd Salim Yeslam, Ahmad Razali Abd Rahman, Razali Abdul, Saleh Mohamad Tahir, Azahar Yusop, Sulaiman Ahmad, Taib Abdullah, Mohd Abi Salam Ariffin, Ishak Othman, and Mohd Zad Abdullah.

The remaining two were considered juveniles at the time of the offence.

The same judge had previously acquitted the group of the charges in 2010 without ordering them to enter defence.

However, this was overturned when the prosecution appealed to the High Court, which ordered to group to return to the Session’s Court to enter defence. The accused’s appeal to the High Court’s decision was then turned down by the Appellate Court.-malaysiakini

 

cheers.

Manifesto PR - Jangan dok gempaq, ajak Najib debat dengan Anwar...

Pakatan Rakyat mencabar BN untuk mengadakan debat terbuka mengenai keupayaan manifesto Pakatan Harapan Rakyat yang diumumkan gabungan parti itu pada Isnin lalu.

Pakatan juga mempertahankan bahawa dasar yang ditawarkan dalam manifesto berkenaan akan memberi penjimatan sebanyak RM49.5 bilion yang boleh digunakan untuk membiaya rancangan dalam ikrar pilihan raya itu.

Penjimatan berkenaan, menurut Pakatan, akan diperolehi melalui pembendungan rasuah, perbelanjaan berhemah dan peningkatan hasil kerajaan daripada pembangunan ekonomi.

Tiga pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat yang ditugaskan untuk berdebat dengan BN itu ialah pengarah strategi PKR Rafizi Ramli, anggota jawatankuasa pusat PAS Dzulkefly Ahmad dan setiausaha antarabangsa DAP Liew Chin Tong.

Bercakap dalam satu sidang media hari ini, mereka turut mencabar Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak untuk berdebat dengan Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berhubung soal tersebut.- malaysiakini

Najib dicabar debat dengan Anwar, buktikan manifesto BN realistik...

Jawatankuasa Manifesto Pakatan Rakyat mencabar Datuk Seri Najib Razak berdebat dengan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mengenai manifesto yang ditawar kerajaan masing-masing.

“Kami mencabar Perdana Menteri yang juga Menteri Kewangan untuk berdebat dengan Ketua Umum KEADILAN berhubung manifesto kami dalam masa terdekat, selepas BN keluarkan manifesto mereka.

“Kami juga bersedia, sebagai Ahli Jawatankuasa Manifesto Pakatan Harapan Rakyat untuk berdebat dengan wakil daripada BN, (dan bahaskan) setiap isu dan peruntukan (manifesto).

“Debat ini bagi pertahankan setiap perangkaan (dalam manifesto) yang kononnya akan bankrapkan negara,” kata Ahli Parlimen Kuala Selangor, Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad pada sidang media di ibu pejabat KEADILAN, hari ini.

Sebaik sahaja Pakatan membentang Manifesto Rakyat di Konvensyen Pakatan Rakyat Isnin lalu, pimpinan Umno BN menuduh kononnya manifesto itu tidak realistik.

Dalam pada itu, Ahli Parlimen Bukit Bendera, Liew Chin Tong menggesa Perbendaharaan Malaysia supaya adil memberikan maklumat kepada kedua-dua pihak.

“Perbendaharaan perlu beri kami semua maklumat yang diperlukan, bagi membolehkan debat dijalankan dengan adil.

“Perbendaharaan perlu bersikap tidak berpihak, seperti mana di negara demokratik lain,” katanya lagi.-keadilandaily

Pakatan dares BN to public debate on manifesto...

Pakatan Rakyat has challenged Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to debate with Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim over the opposition’s manifesto.

“Stop accusing that our policy will bankrupt the nation. Debate our policy.

“In fact, any of us is more than willing to debate any Barisan Nasional leader on the manifesto. 

Let’s scrutinise the numbers,” said PAS central working committee member Dzulkefly Ahmad.

Also present were PKR vice-president Tian Chua, strategy director Rafizi Ramli and Bukit Bendera MP Liew Chin Tong.

The leaders are among the brains behind the manifesto launched on Monday.

Echoing Rafizi’s sentiments, Liew challenged BN to reveal its own manifesto, so that a comparison could be made on both documents.

“Come up with your own manifesto. From there, we can dissect both documents policy to policy, framework to framework,” he said.

The Pakatan’s manifesto drew mixed reactions from various quarters, with BN MP Abdul Rahman Dahlan describing it as reckless and irresponsible.

“It’s about spending but nothing on how to finance it,” he was reported as saying.

Rafizi said that Pakatan would finance its programmes by curbing wastages and corruption, reorganise spending priority and increase revenue through an improved economic system.

He also said the matter should not be seen in the way BN spends taxpayers’ money, which only provides piecemeal solutions rather than structural reforms to the economy.

Rafizi added that billions could be saved by curbing leakages and corruption alone.

“When it comes to reorganising our spending priority, let me give you an example.

“Which is more important? Spending RM14 million to refurbish Seri Perdana or to use the same funds to build schools? That is what we mean by prioritising our spending,” he said.

Rafizi said more savings and revenue could be earned by curbing monopolies, which would reduce prices and increase disposable income among the masses.

He also challenged BN leaders to debate the matter instead of trying to scare voters without facts and figures.

“If we can come up with almost precise numbers without help from any government agency, I’m sure BN, with the help of its consultants, the Economic Planning Unit and Pemandu, can get better figures to debate us,” he said.-FMT

 

Ikuti dedahan PI Bala di sini

cheers.

Mampukah Pakatan Rakyat pertahankan Pulau Pinang...

Pakatan Rakyat Pulau Pinang akan kekal berpegang pada formula agihan kerusi pada 2008 di mana DAP bertanding 19 kerusi negeri, PKR (16) dan PAS (5) untuk berdepan Umno yang bakal bertanding 15 Umno, Gerakan (13), MCA (10) dan MIC dua kerusi.

Ia bagi mengelak sebarang kemungkinan konflik dalam gabungan  tersebut, sebagaimana yang berlaku dalam Pakatan di Johor baru-baru ini di mana pemimpin DAP dan PKR bertelagah secara terbuka kerana berebut kerusi yang bertindih.

"Kami akan kekalkan status quo di Pulau Pinang," kata . Pengarah  Pilihan raya DAP Pulau Pinang, Ng Wei Aik (kanan), sambil menambah bahawa keputusan itu adalah muktamad dan menolak sebarang kemungkinan berlaku konflik berkaitan dengannya.

Bagaimanapun, DAP tidak mengambil mudah pilihan raya umum kali ini, dengan Setiausaha Agungnya, Lim Guan Eng berterusan mengingatkan semua pihak supaya bersiap sedia untuk berdepan dengan serangan lawan.

Kebimbangan Lim adalah munasabah, terutama dengan laporan penilaian dalaman BN yang menunjukkan ia sudah 90 peratus bersiap sedia untuk merebut kerusi yang majoriti pengundi Melayu.

Terdapat 40 kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri di Pulau Pinang, di mana 29 dimenangi Pakatan. Sekiranya DAP dapat mengekalkan semua 19 kerusi yang dimenanginya sebelum ini, maka Pakatan memerlukan PKR dan PAS menyumbang dua lagi kerusi untuk kekal berkuasa di negeri itu.

Persoalan yang lebih besar ialah sama ada Pakatan akan dapat mengekalkan majoriti dua pertiga, iaitu sekurang-kurangnya 27 kerusi.

Difahamkan, kajiselidik dalaman Pakatan juga menunjukkan bahawa ia mungkin mampu meraih hanya 25-30 peratus undi Melayu yang diharapkannya, meletakkan ia pada risiko kehilangan kerusi majoriti Melayu dan kerusi pengundi bercampur, yang kebanyakannya dipegang oleh PKR dan PAS.

"Ini adalah kerana (BN) sedang memainkan isu perkauman di Pulau  Pinang," kata Lim. merujuk kepada dakwaan Umno bahawa kerajaan negeri dan DAP telah meminggirkan orang Melayu dan kedudukan Islam terancam oleh kewujudan mereka.

PKR Pulau Pinang gugur penyandang bukan Melayu?

BN melihat peluangnya untuk menawan semula Pulau Pinang melalui kawasan majoriti Melayu yag dikuasainya sejak Merdeka.

Bagi Pakatan, menurut spekulasi, PKR merancang untuk  menggugurkan atau memindahkan semua penyandang bukan Melayu di Pulau Pinang - sesuatu yang dilihat sebagai merugikan gabungan itu.

Kerusi terbabit ialah Tambun (dipegang oleh timbalan ketua PKR negeri dan exco kerajaan negeri, Law Choo Kiang), Bukit Tengah (Liew Chee Wen), Kebun Bunga (Jason Ong Khan Lee), Pantai Jerejak (Sim Tze Tzin), Batu Uban (S Raveentharan) dan Machang Bubuk (Tan Hock Leong).

Law mungkin dipindahkan ke Bukit Tengah untuk menangani
"cabaran terbesar" dari BN, yang dilaporkan merancang untuk membariskan pengerusinya, Teng Chang Yeow (kiri) di situ, manakala ia Sim, seperti yang pernah diperkatakan sebelum ini, akan bertadning kerusi Parlimen Bayan Baru.

Dengan kerusi Pantai Jerejak ditawarkan kepada ahli Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang, Mohd Rashid Hasnon, maka "kuota" bagi kerusi DUN bukan Melayu untuk PKR Pulau Pinang akan berkurang dari lima kepada empat.

Selain isu-isu kurang prestasi dan peribadi yang dihadapi mereka yang akan digugurkan, bukan Melayu disasarkan selepas satu kumpulan menghadiri mesyuarat dalaman pada Mac tahun lepas, di mana minitnya mendedahkan pengerusi PKR negeri, Datuk Mansor Othman telah melabelkan Lim  sebagai "Tokong yang sombong, bongkak "- dibocorkan kepada blog dan kemudian dipaparkan di TV3.-malaysiakini

Can Penang remain in Pakatan hands...

Penang Pakatan Rakyat will stick to its 2008 formula, with the DAP to contest 19 state seats, PKR 16 and PAS five, against Umno’s 15, Gerakan’s 13, MCA’s 10 and MIC's two.

This is to prevent conflicts and intra-party rivalries, given what has happened in Johor, where DAP and PKR leaders publicly criticised one another to get certain seats in which they have an overlapping interest.

"We will maintain the status quo in Penang. That is confirmed," said state DAP election director Ng Wei Aik (right), brushing aside any notion of conflicts arising.

However, the DAP is not taking a smooth election battle for granted, with party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng continuing to remind one and all to be prepared for the upcoming onslaught.

Lim’s concerns are valid, especially with a BN internal assessment report indicating the coalition to be 90 percent prepared in the Malay-dominated seats of the state. 

There are 40 state seats in Penang, of which 29 are held by Pakatan. Should DAP win all its 19 seats again, Pakatan will need PKR and PAS to deliver two more to retain power. The bigger question is whether Pakatan will be able to retain its two-thirds majority, which is at least 27 seats. 

It is learnt that Pakatan's internal survey has indicated that the coalition may be able to garner only 25-30 percent of the Malay votes it is banking on, putting it at risk of losing its Malay and mixed seats that are mostly held by PKR and, to a smaller extent, by PAS.

“This is because (BN) is playing the racial card in Penang,” Lim had said, referring to Umno’s insistence that the state government and the DAP have marginalised the Malays and that the position of Islam has been threatened by their existence.

Penang PKR to drop all non-Malay incumbents?

It is through the Malay-dominated areas that the BN sees the opportunity to win back the state that it had been holding since Independence, but which it lost in 2008. For Pakatan, speculation is that PKR plans to drop or relocate all its non-Malay incumbents in Penang – which is being seen as disadvantageous to the coalition.

The affected seats are Bukit Tambun (held by state PKR deputy chief and state executive councillor Law Choo Kiang), Bukit Tengah (Ong Chin Wen), Kebun Bunga (Jason Ong Khan Lee), Pantai Jerejak (Sim Tze Tzin), Batu Uban (S Raveentharan) and Machang Bubok (Tan Hock Leong).

Law may be moved to Bukit Tengah to counter the "biggest challenge" from the BN, which reportedly plans to field its state chief Teng Chang Yeow (left) there, while it has long been said that Sim is gunning for the Bayan Baru parliamentary seat.

With the Pantai Jerejak seat being offered to Penang municipal councillor Mohd Rashid Hasnon, the 'quota' for non-Malay state seats for Penang PKR will be reduced from five to four.

Other than non-performance and personal issues confronting those on the chopping board, the non-Malays were targeted after a group attended an internal meeting in March last year - the minutes revealed that state PKR chief and Deputy Chief Minister (DCM) I Mansor Othman had labelled Lim “a cocky, arrogant tokong” and this was leaked to a blog and later featured on Umno-linked TV3.

Asked about this at the time, Mansor had tried to make light of the matter, saying: “Of course they said it is all non-Malays, because most of our Malay candidates did not win (in the last election), only three in state seats (Batu Maung, Penanti and Sungai Acheh).

“So how do we drop the Malay candidates? Do we drop them from the sky?”

Mansor (right) said there would be “some changes” in the PKR line-up for the state seats, but did not reveal how many seats would be involved, only saying that it would not be more than 50 percent.

He is still uncertain if he will be given a state seat, despite PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim confirming that Mansor would do battle in the Nibong Tebal parliamentary seat against the BN’s most likely candidate, state Umno chief Zainal Abidin Osman.

Not being certain of a state seat, or winning it, raises the question of who in PKR will replace Mansor as DCM I should Pakatan keep its hold on Penang, paving the way for a bigger power tussle within the party.

On the speculation about a clash with PAS for the Sungai Acheh seat, Mansor said: “We are confident of resolving it, especially after the renewed spirit at Monday’s Pakatan convention in Shah Alam.”

Uncertainties in the PKR camp

These uncertainties are raising the heat in the PKR camp, with those hoping to be picked as candidates trying to score brownie points with Mansor – if an anonymous fax to a Chinese-language daily is anything to go by.
                      
The note says the non-Malay candidates in PKR, who are in two camps – the incumbents and the ‘hopefuls’ – are not happy about their seats being reduced from five to four and that the incumbents are trying to "topple" Mansor.

Although exco member Law (right) has denied any ‘coup’ attempt, it will be difficult to avoid conflict within the party in a scenario where the incumbents are being annoyed by the hopefuls showing up in their constituencies, trying to steal the show.

This is the season where one finds hopefuls, who have not gone to the ground since Pakatan took the state, showing their faces in constituencies of their choice to try increase their visibility, especially when bigwigs like Anwar make their rounds.

In the final analysis, it appears as if the BN can make some headway in Penang by battling it out for the Malay and mixed seats, which will inevitably affect PKR the most, since PAS has hardcore supporters in the Malay heartland.

Penang Malay Congress president Rahmad Ishak is urging Umno to take up more seats in the mixed constituencies, even if this will put it at loggerheads with its ally Gerakan.

The seats suggested are Batu Uban (likely to be PKR vs Gerakan), Sungai Pinang (DAP vs Gerakan), Machang Bubok (PKR vs Gerakan) and Bukit Tengah (PKR vs MCA or Gerakan), all of which Rahmad says have more than 25 percent Malay voters.

“It is not impossible for Umno to contest in these mixed areas when Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s transformation plan is at its peak, for this will most certainly affect Umno positively,” Rahmad said.

It remains to be seen whether Najib’s promises of 20,000 affordable houses, a monorail system to resolve traffic and transport problems and a free port status to boost the state’s economic development will help BN to win back the confidence of Penangites.-malaysiakini

 

 

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