This was their "revenge" against the Pakatan Rakyat MPs for tearing the government's motion to suspend PKR's Padang Serai MP N Surendran from Parliament for six months.
In the morning sitting, Pakatan MPs branded the motion to suspend Surendran as "usul haram" (an illegal motion), and later tore the motion papers in a standing protest in Parliament.
But after Fuziah (left)
made a technical error in her motion to deduct the salaries of five
advisers in the Prime Minister's Department, Bung Mokhtar stood up and
demanded that Fuziah be referred to the rights and privileges committee
for the error in the motion.Subsequently, he called the motion "usul haram" (illegal motion), mirroring Pakatan MPs’ action earlier in the morning, before tearing the red motion paper vociferously and throwing it up in the air.
Bung Mokhtar stood up for more than a minute and then started chanting "tipu" (cheating) all by himself as the debate on the motion was delayed.
Bung Mokhtar: This motion is wrong. There is no need for debates. I urge my comrades to stand alongside me. We reject this motion because it is haram (Procedurely wrong). Haram and must not be debated. We reject it 100 percent!
Kiandee: Don't...
[BN MPs stood up]
Bung Mokhtar: Koyak! Koyak! (Tear it up!)
Sim Tong Him (DAP-Kota Melaka): Sit down.
Bung Mokhtar: Koyak! Koyak! (Tear it up!). The motion is haram. Haram! Haram! The motion is haram!
Rafizi Ramli (PKR-Pandan): I want my friends from BN to know, because of their comedic theatrics, this is going up on Youtube later.
Bung Mokhtar: [Referring to Pakatan Rakyat MP's antics earlier] There were those doing funny things earlier. Why don't you talk about that? Say it! It's worse than what we are doing. Say it! [To BN MPs] Stand up! Stand up! Stand up!
This motion (is an attempt at) deception. How can we debate this? Why should we? This motion is haram. Haram, haram, haram! We cannot (debate). Haram, haram, haram! We cannot (debate). Tipu (lies), tipu, tipu [repeatedly says "tipu" while opposition MPs tries to interject].
Fuziah's motion was to cut the salaries of five special advisers in the Prime Minister's Department.
The five were Rais Yatim, Noh Omar, Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, Johari Baharom and Hasbi Habibollah.
But with the attention grabbed by the conduct of the BN MPs, the debate for the motion did not proceed smoothly and the motion was later rejected.
The point of contention was that Fuziah made a technical error in the exact wordings of the positions of these five special advisers.
Later, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Razali Ibrahim told opposition MPs that "if it hurts (for tearing the motion papers), that's how we felt in the morning."
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