{"id":3380,"date":"2009-02-09T02:02:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T18:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2009-02-09T02:02:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T18:02:01","slug":"kedah-adun-arumugam-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/02\/09\/kedah-adun-arumugam-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Kedah Adun Arumugam to resign?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This just came in via Malaysiakini<\/a>:<\/p>\n

PKR sources have informed Malaysiakini<\/em> that the party’s elected representative in Kedah V Arumugam has submitted his resignation, necessitating a by-election soon for the Bukit Selambau state seat.<\/p>\n

It is leant that Arumugam had decided to throw in the towel following tremendous pressure on him and his family to defect to Barisan Nasional.<\/p>\n

Arumugam,54, could not be contacted for confirmation but high level party sources said that the party would make the news official tomorrow.<\/p>\n

It is learnt that Arumugam has submitted his resignation letter to the Kedah assembly speaker today and had gone overseas.<\/p>\n

Arumugam’s resignation, if it is confirmed tomorrow by state officials, brings an end to weeks of speculation that he would be tempted or forced to join the BN.<\/p>\n

Police report lodged<\/strong>
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\nEarly this month, Arumugan had lodged<\/strong> a police report claiming, among others, that there was an attempt to kidnap him.<\/p>\n

He also claimed that he and his officers have received numerous threats.<\/p>\n

“All of this is being done in order to force me to leave PKR and move to Barisan Nasional,” he had said after lodging the police report.<\/p>\n

He had said that apart from the threats, he was also approached with lucrative offers in order to coax him into leaving PKR.<\/p>\n

Last week, talks of Arumugam leaving PKR heated up again, especially when he could not be contacted by anyone. His party colleagues then revealed that he was on leave.<\/p>\n

Kedah – which was an Umno stronghold fell – into the hands of Pakatan Rakyat following the March 8 general election.<\/p>\n

Arumugam was an independent candidate who joined the PKR after the general election. He was also a state executive councillor under the PAS-led Kedah government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This serves to reinforce the notion that 3 defectors in Pakatan may have been bought over. More problem for BN. Again, another by-election with BN losing will reflect the lack of support in the bigger picture – takeover of Perak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This just came in via Malaysiakini: PKR sources have informed Malaysiakini that the party’s elected representative in Kedah V Arumugam has submitted his resignation, necessitating a by-election soon for the Bukit Selambau state seat. It is leant that Arumugam had decided to throw in the towel following tremendous pressure on him and his family to […]<\/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":[131,117,196,199,62],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-bn","tag-crime","tag-elections","tag-kedah","tag-pkr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","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=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}