Frankly speaking, I can’t accept the ridiculous reason given by Rusli, Anwar’s younger brother that both Anwar and MB Khalid Ibrahim never knew of his appointment as Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad’s (KDEB) special advisor in APRIL, just a month after general elections.

Rusli said that in April, he was appointed special advisor to KDEB
president Abdul Karim Munisar with no executive power and is not a
member of the board of director in any companies held by KDEB

Its not a matter of knowing or not knowing, but a critical issue of public perception. Surely the brother is not so stupid to realise the implications when people hear about his appointment, given that KDEB is state owned investment arm. This is the sacrifice that people in politics have to make. When a person joins politics and hold (virtual) power, the whole family plus relations suffer due to the public’s expection of ethics. He should have not accepted the position in the first place.

If people can question Mahathir, Badawi, Samy Vellu, Ong Ka Ting, Ling Liong Sik, etc., surely can question Anwar! This is not “baseless accusations” but the perception created in the eyes of the public.

Even though Rusli has resigned, the damaged has been done. More ammo for BN and especially Toyo’s Selangor BN.

Looks like Khalil manages to find another issue to be embroiled in. He seems to be in the papers for all the wrong reasons nowadays.

Before ACA concluded their inquiry, he announced that his aide is suspended. The guy was not informed prior to the announcement it seems. The aide, Yahya Mat Sahri had quit the post and also as Selangor PKR secretary. I understand that the MB wants to show that there will be fair and unimpeded investigation, but he should have informed the affected party.

Meanwhile, several division heads in Selangor PKR are unhappy that key positions such as councilors were not being given to the party warriors, but instead allocated to professionals.

We are angry that many of our pejuang (party warriors), especially division heads, were not appointed into the government, including as local councillors.
We are not happy as the people we named were not only qualified but were with the party during reformasi (reformation) time and even braved teargas and beatings for the party,

I have a gut feeling that this “free water” (actually the first 20 cubic metres only) thing may fall flat on Khalid’s face. The new government needs to scrutinise the laws properly before making any announcement. We have seen how the Bandar Mahkota Cheras saga dragged for weeks, until the federal government made use of the opportunity to help gag Grand Saga. They could have done it earlier, but didn’t. They waited perhaps until PKR’s inability to solve the crisis is revealed.

In this case, Syabas says no letter has been issued to them till yesterday, but today KDEB said letter had just been released. Then there’s the question of who can actually issue the directive. Is it the federal level ministry or the state government?

Whatever it is, the state opposition will be waiting with claws sharpened to pounce on the smallest mistake by PR government.

If Khalid fails to keep his words, the rakyat won’t be interested to listen to his excuses, just like now the rakyat not interested to listen to federal government’s excuses on fuel price increase.

Khalil may well be the first to be forced out or resign if he goes around simply promising things.

As for me, I don’t mind getting bill with discount 🙂

You will get 20 cubic metres of free water from this month. This is the guarantee given by Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim to consumers following conflicting statements over the past few days.
“The state government guarantees that residents will enjoy their first 20 cubic metres of free water starting from this month as has been announced before,” Khalid said. » Read more: Selangor Free Water