{"id":2599,"date":"2008-11-11T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T08:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/11\/11\/kimma-refutes-ppp-statement\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T08:59:20","slug":"kimma-refutes-ppp-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/11\/11\/kimma-refutes-ppp-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"KIMMA refutes PPP statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was wondering when KIMMA will issue a response over PPP&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/11\/09\/murugiah-just-a-small-boy-says-kayveas\/\">statement<\/a> that 3000 ex-KIMMA members have joined PPP. Two of them were even given supreme council seats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KIMMA says only a fraction of 1 percent of its members jumped ship. Well, if KIMMA has 80,000 members as claimed, THAT WOULD MEAN 3.75 PERCENT, not fraction of 1percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KIMMA president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/92863\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> the party has not disbanded or merged with others:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>&#8220;These statements and reports are rejected outright as being unfounded, misleading and baseless. They were obviously (made) with ulterior motives,&#8221; said its president Mohd Ali Naina Mohd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kimma has not been disbanded, dissolved or dismembered, nor has it compromised the priciples laid down by its founders by merging with any other political party,&#8221; he was quoted as saying by <em>Bernama<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that an insignificant number of former Kimma members had decided to join a political party but the number did not represent a fraction of one percent of the total membership of Kimma.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mohd Ali said Kimma accepted and respected the ex-members&#8217; decision to join another political entity as any democratic party should.<\/p>\n<p>However, he added that the party regarded as mischievous the assumption that its membership could be used to bolster the sagging political influence of certain parties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Either one or the other is lying. Why is it nowadays we see more leaders lying? Bad upbringing or circumstances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering when KIMMA will issue a response over PPP&#8217;s statement that 3000 ex-KIMMA members have joined PPP. Two of them were even given supreme council seats. KIMMA says only a fraction of 1 percent of its members jumped ship. Well, if KIMMA has 80,000 members as claimed, THAT WOULD MEAN 3.75 PERCENT, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[121,120],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-kimma","tag-ppp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}