Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email This is the second day of the Perak State Assembly sitting. And Sivakumar, being the first Indian state assembly speaker carries the burden and image of the community. He must not forget that.
Anyway, he’ll be more hellish times ahead since Perak’s situation is nearly balanced. He need to be far more patient than Pandikar Amin the Dewan Rakyat speaker!
He already faced his first walkout, but the Star reports sounds like he was being fair. Selangor’s Teng also doing quite well I guess as no complaints have been registered.
Speaker: Perak BN walkout was ‘childish’
Perak Barisan Nasional’s walkout during the state assembly was “childish” and unbecoming of an elected representative, assembly speaker V. Sivakumar said.
“They are here to bring forth the problems of the people, not to carry out their own agenda in order to get publicity,” he said when commenting on the incident here Thursday.
Asked about Datuk Seri Raja Ahmad Zainuddin Raja Omar (BN – Kubu Gajah) being denied the chance to debate, Sivakumar said that Raja Ahmad Zainuddin had been given the last half hour of the sitting on Wednesday to debate.
But for some reason, he chose not to speak and instead asked to debate Thursday on the motion of thanks on the royal address, said Sivakumar. “When you get the opportunity to speak, you grab it. Otherwise, you will have to wait your turn like everyone else. “Moreover, I never refused his request. I told Raja Ahmad Zainuddin he would debate next after Teja assemblyman Chang Lih Kang, who stood up first,” he said.
On accusations from Barisan representatives that he was biased towards Pakatan Rakyat, Sivakumar aruged that he had been more than fair to Barisan. He pointed out that he gave over two hours to former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali to present his debate.
Are you sure ? Read the NST and The Sun. Seems like the Speaker (just like the one in the parliament and BN states) siding with the ruling party.
Based on what I had read, he hardly seems to be playing fair.
But having said that and to be fair, it is not easy to be in Sivakumar’s place with BN is so strong in Perak and the PR govt so shaky.
As I had said a few weeks ago, the real power lies with DAP’s Ngeh and effectively he is the MB. In fact I would call the Perak govt as the Ali Baba administration. Nizar is just a puppet and has no say on the admin of the state. In fact he has less power than even the other DAP ADUNs.
The fact that he can’t even answer most questions and had to helped by Ngeh says a lot about his abillity.
i dont care if Sivakumar is siding or not . The whole national administration of BN (before March8) was baised for 50 years and you smart ppl accusing Siva ??
One PM said “….keluar dari malaysia” . Another nazi said “….u racist” and many many more…..
If you have balls go and blame those ‘biased-by-nature’ racial party .
VJ
You know what the DAP people told UMNO when the did the demo in front of KOMTAR in march ? “Keluar dari Penang kalau tak suka”….So what’s the difference ?
yup and not surprised at all based on their frustration accumulated thus long …. at least those demons …sorry i mean demonstators are lucky as if they were chi/indians they will get harsh treatment by police plus water cannon and tear gas .
tit for tat
wht goes around comes around ……. DrM is one good example of that too ….. unfortunately umno wont learn lesson tht fast….