Sungai Siput MP Dr D Michael Jeyakumar wants the Federal Court to direct the High Court to hear his suit against the government over constituency funding.
PUTRAJAYA: Sungai Siput MP, Dr D Michael Jeyakumar is going all the way to the Federal Court to find out what has happened to the development fund for his constituency.
Jeyakumar first filed the suit in 2010 against the federal government for the failure to provide constituency development funds as much as RM1 million as stated in the national budget.
The High Court had then decided unanimously for the case to proceed. However the senior federal counsel, representing the government, appealed at the Appeals Court and the leave was denied on Oct 10, two days before the matter was to have been heard at the High Court.
Today, Jeyakumar filed an application for the Federal Court to overrule the Court of Appeal decision and to direct the High Court to hear his suit. No date has been fixed to hear his application.
Speaking to the press after filing his application, Jeyakumar said: “We want a High Court declaration that the BN’s management of funds is wrong.”
He added that currently BN parliamentarians received more than RM1 million annually as constitution development funds directly.
“We also want a mandamus (instruction) to instruct government to tell who has received and how much money has been given out,” said Jeyakumar who is also Parti Sosialis Malaysia’s central committee member.
Jeyakumar claimed that the BN claimed that funds amounting up to RM3 to RM4 million has been pumped into Sungai Siput.
“It is done without my knowledge. I want to know who is gaining out the funds.”
PUTRAJAYA: Sungai Siput MP, Dr D Michael Jeyakumar is going all the way to the Federal Court to find out what has happened to the development fund for his constituency.Jeyakumar first filed the suit in 2010 against the federal government for the failure to provide constituency development funds as much as RM1 million as stated in the national budget.
The High Court had then decided unanimously for the case to proceed. However the senior federal counsel, representing the government, appealed at the Appeals Court and the leave was denied on Oct 10, two days before the matter was to have been heard at the High Court.
Today, Jeyakumar filed an application for the Federal Court to overrule the Court of Appeal decision and to direct the High Court to hear his suit. No date has been fixed to hear his application.
Speaking to the press after filing his application, Jeyakumar said: “We want a High Court declaration that the BN’s management of funds is wrong.”
He added that currently BN parliamentarians received more than RM1 million annually as constitution development funds directly.
“We also want a mandamus (instruction) to instruct government to tell who has received and how much money has been given out,” said Jeyakumar who is also Parti Sosialis Malaysia’s central committee member.
Jeyakumar claimed that the BN claimed that funds amounting up to RM3 to RM4 million has been pumped into Sungai Siput.
“It is done without my knowledge. I want to know who is gaining out the funds.”
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