{"id":5230,"date":"2009-07-02T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T02:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5230"},"modified":"2009-07-02T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T02:30:43","slug":"kedah-dap-to-pull-out-from-state-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/07\/02\/kedah-dap-to-pull-out-from-state-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Kedah DAP to pull out from state government"},"content":{"rendered":"

This may be signs of things to come. In Penang, its PKR. In Selangor, its PAS. In Perak, its all three of them.<\/p>\n

In Kedah, the DAP has one representative in the state assembly. The state DAP has decided to pull out, subject to HQ feedback. Reason given<\/a> – \u201cundelivered promises\u201d by the Kedah government, and not giving equal treatment to all Kedahans.<\/p>\n

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State DAP chairman Thomas Su Keong Siong, said the decision<\/a> to demolish the 30-year-old abattoir was the last straw.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pulling out of the state government as we find we can no longer work with other PR assemblymen,\u201d he told reporters here two hours after the abattoir, located near a densely-populated rsidential area, was demolished by Alor Star city council workers.<\/p>\n

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The demolition, which started about 3pm, proceeded smoothly for about two hours despite the presence of a small group of DAP members, including Su, who held placards protesting the move.<\/p>\n

Su, who is also state assemblyman for Pasir Pinji in Perak, said the state government had failed to handle the issue properly.<\/p>\n

He said he had met state Housing and Local Government Committee chairman Datuk Phahrolrazi Zawawi on Tuesday to ask if the state executive council had agreed to the state DAP\u2019s request to delay the demolition.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me he would raise the matter with Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak. Today, I received an SMS from the state executive councillor (Phahrolrazi) that the matter had not been discussed at the weekly state executive council meeting today,” he said.<\/p>\n

Su, who was careful not to mention Azizan’s name throughout the press conference, said he had also learnt that the city council was planning to demolish a multi-purpose hall at a Hindu temple in Jalan Pegawai and a Chinese temple in Jalan Tanjung Bendahara here.<\/p>\n

He said other issues that substantiated the DAP’s claims about the state Pas included the state government’s policy of a 50 per cent housing quota for Bumiputeras and the delay in approving a building plan submitted by the Kedah Buddhist Association.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem came to a boil after an illegal pig abattoir was demolished by Alor Setar City Council two days ago. The demolition of the slaughterhouse was another reason which had prompted the state DAP to quit the pact.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlthough the slaughterhouse was operating on land belonging to the Alor Setar City Council, the state government has the power to postpone the demolition. This will give more time for the Kedah Pig Traders and Slaughterer Association which operates the slaughterhouse to find a new site,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Datuk Khazali Din was quoted as saying recently that the abattoir had been erected illegally on the site for the past 30 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The council had ordered the association to vacate the place several times since 1995 with the latest in May this year.<\/p>\n

Kedah MB says<\/a> its DAP’s fault because didn’t do anything to solve the problem in the last one month (Kedah DAP had failed to deliver on an alternative site for the facility after asking for a month’s grace) , while Kedah PKR admits that its shoulders part of the blame for not acting fast to solve the problem. However, PKR supports the demolishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This may be signs of things to come. In Penang, its PKR. In Selangor, its PAS. In Perak, its all three of them. In Kedah, the DAP has one representative in the state assembly. The state DAP has decided to pull out, subject to HQ feedback. Reason given – \u201cundelivered promises\u201d by the Kedah government, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[119,113,199,159,27],"class_list":["post-5230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-dap","tag-intolerance","tag-kedah","tag-pas","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230","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=5230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5232,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5230\/revisions\/5232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}