KUALA LUMPUR, May 16 — The People's Progressive Party's (PPP) disciplinary board has expelled seven party members including its supreme council member Datuk T. Murugiah.
The six party members expelled are M. Jeyaratnam, N. Shanmuganathan, K. Tanggaraju, S. Kanesan, S. Saravanan and R. Rajandran, according to a statement issued by the board after its meeting today.
Thirty-nine disciplinary board members attended the two-hour meeting. Also present was the party's president Datuk M. Kayveas.
Those unhappy with the decision can appeal in writing within 14 days from the date of the decision to the supreme council for the attention of the secretary-general, the board said.
"We feel very sad to make this decision as we have given time to T. Murugiah to meet the supreme council on many occasions for the past 10 months.
"Looks like all of them have asked to be sacked," the board said.
The board said Murugiah was sacked for using his deputy minister's office in the Prime Minister's Department to organise a press conference which tarnished the good name of the party and making highly defamatory remarks against the party, the supreme council and party's leadership.
It also said that Murugiah used a bankrupt to make the defamatory remarks against the party as the party would be unable to take any legal action against a bankrupt.
Furthermore, Murugiah had threatened the party's lawyer and a supreme council member that he would use all his powers to get PPP deregistered.
"This action the disciplinary board considers as a very serious offence under the party constitution and cannot be excused without facing disciplinary action.
"Asking your own party to be deregistered is tantamount to an action by traitors of any organisation," the board said.
On May 9, PPP's supreme council had made an overwhelming request for Murugiah to be sacked from the party but the decision was deferred by Kayveas.
This was simply because the president was kind enough giving him ample opportunity and time to patch up with supreme council members and state leaders, the board said.
"When the party did not sack him and neither took any disciplinary action against him, he created an atmosphere that he was sacked and attempted to get sympathy from various sources," the board said.
With the decision, the board said that PPP would not "say anything against this seven people".
Likewise, it said, the expelled members were advised not to speak anything about party and leadership anymore as they remain expelled until the hearing of their appeal.
Meanwhile, Selangor PPP plans to hold and extraordinary general meeting to ask its members to approve a motion for a vote of no confidence to be instituted against Kayveas.
Selayang PPP head K. Tanggaraju, who was among those expelled, the action was necessary as Kayveas was acting according to his "whims and fancies". — Bernama
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