IPOH, May 26 – Embattled People’s Progressive Party president Datuk M. Kayveas today claimed that the party’s documentation with the authorities could have been tampered with, in response to allegations that the Registrar of Societies was close to shutting it down.
But Kayveas admitted he has no proof, saying he had asked the party secretariat to check on their records.
“There were two or three missing documents and even other people’s documents mixed up with ours. It is a bit of a rojak there,” Kayveas said after opening the Perak PPP convention here today.
He said that it was common practice for all societies, both political and non-political, to update their documentation in the ROS after they hold their annual general meetings.
“They usually give about 60 days for this to be done. For the PPP, since the registrar has not sent us any notice to say that our documents are incomplete, we have assumed that they were all in order,” he said.
Despite this, Kayveas promised that he would rectify the problem by tomorrow morning, before the Barisan Nasional management meeting.
“It is very easy to settle. It is just a matter of doing some administrative work. I can get it settled in a few minutes,” he said.
Meanwhile, Kayveas said that he had explained this during his meeting with deputy prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin earlier today.
“He had also wanted to know about the validity of Senator T. Murugiah’s appointment as the new party president,” he said, referring to the deputy minister in the PM's Department who had sought to oust him.
Kayveas said that he had explained that the party constitution did not permit appointing a new president.
“One has to go through a proper election process.“There has to be nomination, voting and then the tallying of votes. A person cannot hold a meeting, call it an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) and then wear a crown like it is a beauty pageant and call himself president,” he added.
Kayveas said that if that were the case, EGMs could be held monthly by anyone who felt like becoming president.
“Then we can have 12 presidents in a year,” he said.Kayveas also joked that the Malaysian royalty needed to be alerted now because Murugiah “already got a crown”.
He said that if Murugiah, who was sacked from the party, truly loved PPP, he would not have started all the recent problems.
“He should sit and settle issues for the party so that there is no need for there to be two press conferences every day,” he said.
He added that the party was willing to accept Murugiah back into the party if he was willing to come forward.“We have been waiting for him to come but he is too high and mighty.
“He does not even come to the headquarters. He does not see the president or even the supreme council members,” he added.
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