GEORGE TOWN: The on-going ugly public spat among top leaders in Perak DAP have got into the nerves of party national chairman Karpal Singh.
He wants all parties involved to immediately stop the public row for the sake of party unity.
He reminded leaders and members that the open politicking in Perak DAP would be damaging to the party's image and credibility.
“I call on all parties to cease fire, lay down their arms and stop the war.
“They should immediately stop cleaning dirty linen in the public.
“Public confidence would surely be eroded by this crisis,” the two-term Bukit Gelugor MP told a press conference in Air Itam here today.
He wants the party to convene an emergency central executive committee (CEC) meeting soon to address and resolve all issues pertaining to the crisis.
Karpal will talk to party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, also the Penang Chief Minister, on this.
"The CEC should address all allegations and counter-allegations raised in a fair and transparent manner," he said.
The crisis boiled over when an angry Perak DAP deputy chairman M Kulasegaran threatened to quit his position following an open fallout with the party local powerbrokers Ngeh Koo Ham and Nga Kor Ming.
The feud between them was going on for a while now until Kulasegaran decided “enough is enough” and wanted to hold a press conference last week to spill the beans on the rift.
However, Kulasegaran, Ipoh Barat MP, halted his plan at the eleventh hour following intervention of Ipoh Timur MP Lim Kit Siang.
Royal tribune
Meanwhile, Karpal plans to table a motion of urgent public importance in next week’s parliamentary sitting against Chief Justice Zaki Azmi for misconduct and ignoring a formal complaint against him.
He said if possible, he would demand the federal government set up a royal tribunal to probe into his graft complaints against Zaki.
Karpal, a lawyer by profession, submitted his letter of complaint, lodged under the Judges’ Code of Ethics 2009, dated Aug 20, to Zaki’s office.
In his complaint, the first ever lodged under the Act, Karpal has sought the judiciary to decide on the merits of his graft allegations against Zaki.
He also demanded Zaki to exclude himself from making the decision since he was the alleged party.
Two weeks ago, Karpal gave a week to Zaki office to response to his complaint. But the chief justice office has been silent on the matter.
“I will demand the government form a tribune to investigate the chief justice on this important issue.
“Indeed, Zaki should have voluntarily resigned by now for claiming that he had bribed court staff to get things done during his time as a lawyer,” said Karpal.
On the legal front, Karpal said he would cite PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim’s former aide Rahimi Osman for contempt for attempting to jeopardise the on-going Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II trial.
He said he would file for contempt proceedings to be instituted against Rahimi when the hearing resumes on Oct 14.
The lawyer said Rahimi had the breached the law by lodging a police report that could induce undue influence on the judge presiding over the on-going Anwar’s trial.
In his report lodged on Wednesday, Rahimi has claimed he was forced to make two statutory declarations in June 2008 to implicate Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor in a conspiracy against Anwar.
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