Athi Veeranggan | Sep 9, 08 5:49pmhttp://malaysiakini.com/news/89375
Penang Gerakan Youth leader Huan Cheng Guan has quit with immediate effect as state Barisan Nasional Youth chief, to protest the disrespect shown to his party’s acting head Koh Tsu Koon by several Umno members yesterday.
They had torn up and trampled on a photograph of Gerakan acting president Koh Tsu Koon at the Penang Umno headquarters.Three other Gerakan Youth leaders - vice-chairperson Yew Khean Siang, secretary Oh Teong Keong and assistant-secretary Heng Thee Wey - will submit their resignations to the state BN secretariat tomorrow. Yew is the BN state Youth vice-chairperson, while Oh and Heng are members of the BN Youth committee.
Huan, who is currently in Taiwan, conveyed a message via SMS to BN national Youth head Hishammuddin Hussein this morning. He said he would not tolerate Koh being subjected to “such humiliation and utter contempt” by segments within Umno. “It’s too much for me to take. How could they tear down my leader’s photo and step on it? I have tendered my resignation as Penang BN Youth chief with immediate effect,” the former Batu Kawan parliamentarian told Malaysiakini via SMS.Huan, who is on a study tour of Taiwan with 49 BN MPs in his capacity as executive secretary of the Backbenchers Club, also rejected calls by certain Gerakan leaders for him to abandon the trip and return immediately. “As the executive secretary, I'm duty-bound to be in Taiwan to co-ordinate the tour. I would be irresponsible to abandon it and return home now,” he explained. Huan, who has to relinquish his leadership of Gerakan Youth this month due to his age, had recently announced that he would contest the post of state chairperson in the upcoming party polls.
‘Dismayed by Umno’
The other Gerakan Youth leaders said they were resigning because they were dismayed by the ineptness of Umno and BN top leaders in reining in Bukit Bendera Umno division head Ahmad Ismail. “Ahmad is going on and on with his seditious remarks and threats to disrupt the harmony within BN and among Malaysians. His supporters tore down and stepped on our party leader’s portrait. But Umno and BN leadership are still hesitating to act against him,” said Oh. Ahmad’s supporters had verbally abused reporters and torn down Koh’s portrait in the meeting hall during yesterday’s press conference.
Ahmad had also told Gerakan to get out of BN and warned Chinese Malaysians not to mimic
American Jews who not only sought to control the country's economy but also its political power. He has invoked a national backlash for his reportedly racist remarks by calling Chinese Malaysians “immigrants squatting in the country” during the Permatang Pauh by-election campaign. Meanwhile, Kampung Kolam state assemblyperson Ng Wei Aik (left) lodged a police report at the Jalan Patani station in George Town today against state Umno secretary Azhar Ibrahim for saying that the “Sin Chiew journalist ought to be shot if her article causes another May 13”. The statement was reportedly made during an earlier press conference by Ahmad, held last Friday. Ng said Azhar’s threat amounted to criminal intimidation and he wants the police to probe the Umno leader without fear or favour.
American Jews who not only sought to control the country's economy but also its political power. He has invoked a national backlash for his reportedly racist remarks by calling Chinese Malaysians “immigrants squatting in the country” during the Permatang Pauh by-election campaign. Meanwhile, Kampung Kolam state assemblyperson Ng Wei Aik (left) lodged a police report at the Jalan Patani station in George Town today against state Umno secretary Azhar Ibrahim for saying that the “Sin Chiew journalist ought to be shot if her article causes another May 13”. The statement was reportedly made during an earlier press conference by Ahmad, held last Friday. Ng said Azhar’s threat amounted to criminal intimidation and he wants the police to probe the Umno leader without fear or favour.George Town OCPD Azam Abdul Hamid said the police would probe Ng’s complaint without double standards. Sin Chew Daily has stood by its article and the journalist who wrote it.
