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KUCHING: Controversial Meluan assemblyman Wong Judat has finally resigned from his party Sarawak Progressive Democratc Party (SPDP), a Barisan Nasional component party, after months of speculation.
He said yesterday he resigned because of Julau MP and Parti Rakyat Sarawak (another BN ally) vice-president Joseph Salang’s ‘stubborn’ insistence on defending his seat in the next parlaimentary polls.
But some political observers here are of the view that Salang is “not the real reason” behind Judat’s decision to quit SPDP.
According to a PRS leader, Judat had barely a week ago said that he was ” still 100 percent with SPDP” and this was after he had discussed his future with SPDP and other BN leaders.
“But the threat that he would be disciplined coming from the secretary-general of the state Barisan Nasional Stephen Rundi has forced Judat to make the decision to quit SPDP.
“He must have read the warning which appeared in all the newspapers last Tuesday morning,” said the PRS leader, who declined to be named.
Rundi issued a strongly worded statement proposing to take disciplinary action against Judat if SPDP refused to discipline him.
“If SPDP does not do it, then the state BN will have no choice but to step in and possibly take disciplinary action against him.
“At the moment the Barisan Nasional is waiting for SPDP and Wong to make their move before it contemplates stepping in.
“We have not reached that decision, but we will do it. Any unwarranted character will be dealt with by our disciplinary committee,” Rundi said, pointing out that the BN wanted SPDP to ‘discipline’ Judat first.
Rundi said that he did not want the Judat’s case to undermine the BN’s spirit of unity to win the coming general election.
No letter received
Meanwhile, Judat told his supporters and friends in Julau and Sarikei that he has resigned from SPDP and has applied to join the newly registered Sarawak Workers Party.
According to office workers at the SPDP Headquarters, Judat, who is also a SPDP vice-president, came to the office at about 2.00 pm on Tuesday wanting to hand over his letter of resignation.
As there was no senior SPDP member in the office, the office workers refused to accept the letter as they said that they were not authorised to do so.
However, SPDP deputy secretary-general and political secretary to Chief Minister, Paul Igai who was informed of Judat’s intention rushed to the office.
“By the time I arrived at the office he was no longer there. Apparently Judat took back the letter of resignation with him,” Igai said to FMT.
“I don’t know whether he is really resigning or not. As a matter of fact I am preparing a list of minor rural development projects for his constituency of Meluan worth more than RM1 million.
“Judat is expected to announce the projects in the next few days. Somehow, if he has resigned, then the distribution of the projects by him has to be withheld,” lamented Igai.
Meanwhile, PRS president James Masing told reporters over the weekend that he would raise the issue of Judat attacking another BN leader with the state Barisan Nasional, and at the federal level as his action is damaging to the ruling coalition.
“The damage Judat can do to Salang is not much, but the damage to the BN’s principle is greater because he creates precedence.
“You cannot use the BN platform to fight against fellow BN members. This is one of the rules in the BN coalition,” he said, pointing out that no one should be allowed to use the BN platform to show personal discontentment publicly against the leader of another BN component party.
He said that in order to preserve BN unity, action ought to be taken against Judat.
Change of heart
Since the registration of SWP in April this year, Judat has always been seen in the company of its president Larry Sng and Sng Chee Hua, the de facto leader of the party. Sng, who is Larry’s father, has been bad-mouthing Salang.
He alleged that Salang is an outsider to Julau and should not be renominated to represent the constituency any more.
He also accused Salang of neglecting the people of Meluan constituency which he (Judat) represented.
The Meluan seat forms one part of the Julau parliamentary constituency and other part is the Pakan seat which is held by SPDP President William Mawan.
Judat told BN leaders and his supporters that if Salang were to be renominated, then he would join SWP and contest against him. In fact, he has been wearing the SWP uniform.
However on July 30, Judat had a ‘heart to heart’ talk with Mawan and SPDP deputy president Tiong King Sing in Kuala Lumpur and later the three met the federal BN secretary general Tengku Adnan Mansor.
Apparently, he had a change of heart and declared that he “is still 100 per cent” with SPDP.
With Judat’s resignation from SPDP, he is certain to contest against Salang in Julau opening the way for at least a three cornered-fight. The other candidate would be from the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
He said yesterday he resigned because of Julau MP and Parti Rakyat Sarawak (another BN ally) vice-president Joseph Salang’s ‘stubborn’ insistence on defending his seat in the next parlaimentary polls.
But some political observers here are of the view that Salang is “not the real reason” behind Judat’s decision to quit SPDP.
According to a PRS leader, Judat had barely a week ago said that he was ” still 100 percent with SPDP” and this was after he had discussed his future with SPDP and other BN leaders.
“But the threat that he would be disciplined coming from the secretary-general of the state Barisan Nasional Stephen Rundi has forced Judat to make the decision to quit SPDP.
“He must have read the warning which appeared in all the newspapers last Tuesday morning,” said the PRS leader, who declined to be named.
Rundi issued a strongly worded statement proposing to take disciplinary action against Judat if SPDP refused to discipline him.
“If SPDP does not do it, then the state BN will have no choice but to step in and possibly take disciplinary action against him.
“At the moment the Barisan Nasional is waiting for SPDP and Wong to make their move before it contemplates stepping in.
“We have not reached that decision, but we will do it. Any unwarranted character will be dealt with by our disciplinary committee,” Rundi said, pointing out that the BN wanted SPDP to ‘discipline’ Judat first.
Rundi said that he did not want the Judat’s case to undermine the BN’s spirit of unity to win the coming general election.
No letter received
Meanwhile, Judat told his supporters and friends in Julau and Sarikei that he has resigned from SPDP and has applied to join the newly registered Sarawak Workers Party.
According to office workers at the SPDP Headquarters, Judat, who is also a SPDP vice-president, came to the office at about 2.00 pm on Tuesday wanting to hand over his letter of resignation.
As there was no senior SPDP member in the office, the office workers refused to accept the letter as they said that they were not authorised to do so.
However, SPDP deputy secretary-general and political secretary to Chief Minister, Paul Igai who was informed of Judat’s intention rushed to the office.
“By the time I arrived at the office he was no longer there. Apparently Judat took back the letter of resignation with him,” Igai said to FMT.
“I don’t know whether he is really resigning or not. As a matter of fact I am preparing a list of minor rural development projects for his constituency of Meluan worth more than RM1 million.
“Judat is expected to announce the projects in the next few days. Somehow, if he has resigned, then the distribution of the projects by him has to be withheld,” lamented Igai.
Meanwhile, PRS president James Masing told reporters over the weekend that he would raise the issue of Judat attacking another BN leader with the state Barisan Nasional, and at the federal level as his action is damaging to the ruling coalition.
“The damage Judat can do to Salang is not much, but the damage to the BN’s principle is greater because he creates precedence.
“You cannot use the BN platform to fight against fellow BN members. This is one of the rules in the BN coalition,” he said, pointing out that no one should be allowed to use the BN platform to show personal discontentment publicly against the leader of another BN component party.
He said that in order to preserve BN unity, action ought to be taken against Judat.
Change of heart
Since the registration of SWP in April this year, Judat has always been seen in the company of its president Larry Sng and Sng Chee Hua, the de facto leader of the party. Sng, who is Larry’s father, has been bad-mouthing Salang.
He alleged that Salang is an outsider to Julau and should not be renominated to represent the constituency any more.
He also accused Salang of neglecting the people of Meluan constituency which he (Judat) represented.
The Meluan seat forms one part of the Julau parliamentary constituency and other part is the Pakan seat which is held by SPDP President William Mawan.
Judat told BN leaders and his supporters that if Salang were to be renominated, then he would join SWP and contest against him. In fact, he has been wearing the SWP uniform.
However on July 30, Judat had a ‘heart to heart’ talk with Mawan and SPDP deputy president Tiong King Sing in Kuala Lumpur and later the three met the federal BN secretary general Tengku Adnan Mansor.
Apparently, he had a change of heart and declared that he “is still 100 per cent” with SPDP.
With Judat’s resignation from SPDP, he is certain to contest against Salang in Julau opening the way for at least a three cornered-fight. The other candidate would be from the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
COUNTDOWN TO SABAH INDEPENDENCE DAY 31 August & 16 SEPTEMBER BLACK DAY OF RE-COLONIZATION
ReplyDeleteComments made a year ago still apply as nothing has changed for Sabah or Sarawak as colonies of Malaya (from http://sarawaknews.wordpress.com/)
Sarawakians are unhappy about forgotten 18/20 point agreement
September 18, 2011 by democracy4now
"An agreement forged and forgotten"
by Karen Bong and Wilfred Pilo. Posted on September 16, 2011, Friday(Borneo post)
The 18-points Agreement signed on July 9, 1963 before the formation of Malaysia is an important document safeguarding the rights and autonomy of Sarawak and Sarawakians. So why don’t we know it?
“The way Malayans treat us, I believe gives us all the reasons to get out of Malaysia.
But at this stage I think it is not possible. The Malayans have been violating our 18-(or 20) points Agreement, particularly points 2, 12 and 15.”
The views expressed below are by a well-known Sabah and Sarawakian politicians and writers about how meaningless it has been to be in “Malaysia” for 48 years- the people and land raped & plundered and stripped bare of their oil & timber wealth
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BLACK DAY FOR SARAWAK
http://dayakbaru.com/weblog08/2011/09/17/black-september-16th-malaysia-day/
BLACK DAY FOR SABAH
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/09/16/sept-16-is-a-black-day-for-sabah/
RESENTMENT BOILS OVER IN SABAH
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/09/18/resentments-in-sabah-reaching-boiling-point/
SABAH & SARAWAK SHOULD GET OUT OF MALAYSIA
http://dayakbaru.com/weblog08/2011/08/24/sabah-and-sarawak-should-get-out-of-malaysia/
on September 21, 2011 at 12:10 am | Reply OurSarawak
NO “POINT” OR CONSTITUTION CAN STOP PEOPLE’S INDEPENDENCE UPRISING
Why let a foreign government-imposed colonization law (“constitution”) stop us? The 18/20 Points can be ignored as neither UMNO nor any Malayan political party will ever honoured these even in spirit.
The KL non-observance of the 18/20 Points is a useful argument which does no more than expose the new colonial relationship Sabah/Sarawak were forced into with Malaya on 16 September 1963.
The Malaysian constitution is a colonial law that deprived us of any right to exit an unequal relationship. It is no more than an unequal treaty which we can reject any time.
These are not cast in stone although those of us who have submitted to KL rule would like to have their “state rights” under the 18/20 Points.
In the 1960s Sarawak conservative leaders were conned and at the same time pushed by the British to go along with the “Malaysia” plan. They were the ones who received the “nominal” reins of power while Kuala Lumpur became the new real colonial master.
The demands of the anti-Malaysia movement for real independence was ignored and suppressed.
Those who saw what was coming and resisted the “Malaysia” plan were driven into the jungles following the Brunei Uprising of December 8 1962 and subsequent mass arrests of anti-Malaysia patriots.
The anti-Malaysia movement developed into the armed resistance and silent war for independence was fought from in 1962 till 1990.
This side of the story suppressed by those who argue for acceptance of Malaysia as an “fait accompli”.
If we strongly want real independence we must firstly break out of our pathetic and submissive colonial mentality.
The elected state legislative assembly could revolt and declare independence.
This is extremely unlikely as the “elected government” is controlled by traitors who are servile KL puppets. Nor can anyone expect that Kuala Lumpur will be kind enough to hold an independence referendum to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
We therefore need to unite and organise to fight for real independence. There can be no other way.