SUMBANGAN RM 10,000 UNTUK KELUARGA KUGAN OLEH DR XAVIER

YB Dr Xavier telah meyerahkan cek sumbangan sebanyak RM10,000 sumbangan Kerajaan Negeri Selangor kepada keluarga mendiang A. Kugan (yang mati dalam tahanan Polis) pada pada hari ini

Cek diterima oleh ibu mendiang , Puan N. Indra A/P Nallathamby, 41 dalam satu acara ringkas di rumahnya di Kajang. Dr. Xavier menegaskan bahawa Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Negeri Selangor berasa prihatin dan terharu terhadap apa yang berlaku kepada keluarga Kugan.
Tegasnya lagi kerajaan negeri akan terus memberi bantuan kepada mangsa-mangsa penainyaian tanpa mengira samaada mangsa seorang Melayu, Cina, atau India.

Beliau juga mempertikaikan tindakan membisu Polis yang tidak megambil sebarang tindakan terhadap anggota-anggota polis yang menyebabkan kematian Kugan walaupun post morten kedua yang dilakukan terhadap mayat Kugan menunjukkan bahawa mangsa telah didera dengan tidak berperikemanusian hingga menyebakan kematian Kugan.

YB Ravi ADUN Port Dickson, Arultchelvam, Setiausaha Agung Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) dan beberapa orang ahli Majlis Perbandaran Kajang (MPkj) turut serta dalam majlis tersebut .

Laporan olehAbdul Razak Ismail

PEOPLE'S CONSULTSNTATION ON ISA

I Simply Arrest

Nizar elected, BN rejected; fresh Perak elections needed

The Barisan Nasional has suffered four deadly blows in a row. Umno has been soundly defeated on three occasions since Marc 8, 2009. The outcome of these by-elections have confirmed that there is no stopping the Pakatan no matter what crafty means the BN adopts or devices to reach out to the electorate.

For Umno the results have been devastating. It has not recovered lost ground neither has it revived its fortunes. It has been downhill all the way in spite of changing its president and acclaiming him as the sixth prime minister of Malaysia.

Dato Seri Najib going down to the ground without any fanfare dressed in ordinary clothes; meeting ordinary people and eating vadai in crowded Brickfields; addressing the nation propounding the concept of one Malaysia; bringing in Tun Mahathir to turn the tide on the last day of campaigning – all this did not make any difference. Fixing a weekday for polling, imposing so many restrictions to handicap the opposition did not provide any advantage to the BN. If anything, it only made the people angry and motivated the electorate to punish the BN.

The peninsula victories of the Pakatan over the BN has driven home the fact rather convincingly that the March 8 election was no fluke. They reaffirmed that the ground has indeed shifted in favour of the Opposition. The results must be viewed as a damning referendum on Najib, Umno, BN and the government. The electorate have rejected the BN overwhelmingly and have sent a clear signal that they are not going to tolerate any more nonsense from Umno and the BN.
When they elected a political novice and rejected a seasoned politician in Bukit Selembau, it was meant to spite the BN and MIC. When they elected Dato Nizar in Bukit Gantang with a majority almost twice that of the previous one exactly a year later, it was meant to punish the BN and send a strong signal to Najib that they were thoroughly disgusted with him for engineering the fall of their duly elected Perak state government.

The significance of Bukit Gantang must be seriously taken into account. It is abundantly clear that Perakians want Nizar’s government to continue to serve them. It is their preferred. chosen government and they have given the thumbs down to Dato Zambry.

Aliran hopes that this message will not go unnoticed. This is why Aliran would like to appeal - yet again - to His Royal Highness, the Sultan of Perak, to reconsider his decision. The Perak government cannot be in a limbo, especially in these difficult times of economic uncertainties. We earnestly appeal to His Royal Highness to allow his subjects to decide on the government of their choice in a fresh election. Aliran would also like to appeal to Zambry to do the only honorable thing for which he will be remembered. Please resign and pave the way for fresh elections.

P RamakrishnanPresident9 April 2009

ALIRAN PRESS STATEMENT

Najib’s new cabinet*

There had been speculation that the new cabinet would be smaller than the previous one. Well, it’s smaller in the sense there are 28 ministers now compared to the previous 32. But it is bigger in another sense. There is an increase in the number of deputy ministers: there are now 40 compared to 38 in the previous administration.


Whether the new line-up will make much difference to the lives of the Malaysians remains to be seen.

Words have been uttered on numerous occasions promising change and performance. But each time these words proved to be hollow and disappointing when what was promised was not delivered.


The majority of ministers are from the previous cabinet; they were part of a government that had failed to deliver and fulfil the expectations of the public. That was why they paid the price in the 8 March 2008 general election.


Now they have been assembled once again under a new leadership and it is left to be seen whether this new grouping will deliver on the Prime Minister’s promises.
We will wait and see.


P RamakrishnanPresident9 April 2009


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