Wednesday August 20, 2008
In a posting on his website (www.rembau.net) entitled “Pakatan Rupture,” Khairy said although PKR had censured Zulkifli, he remained unrepentant and defiant by launching further attacks on the Bar Council.
Khairy said it was not about whether Zulkifli was right or wrong but that the decision by PKR chief whip, Azmin Ali, to let Zulkifli off the hook was inconsistent with the stand of PKR and Pakatan’s leadership.
“This is about the fundamental ties that bind this so-called political coalition that has designs on running this country very soon.
“Why is the normally glib Lim Kit Siang not chastising Zulkifli for defending his action at the Bar Council which was condemned by many DAP leaders?” Khairy questioned.
Khairy also asked if the self-proclaimed PM-in-waiting, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, was unable to prevent his own MP from repeatedly breaking ranks.
He also pointed out that PAS Member of Parliament Salahuddin Ayub was present to lend his support to the demonstrators during the protest outside the Bar Council on Aug 9.
“What are the views of Kit Siang and Guan Eng on Salahuddin’s presence? Or is it more silence?”
Khairy said Anwar and Kit Siang would continue to skirt and fudge the Zulkifli issue because they did not want to address it during the Permatang Pauh by-election.
“They want to keep up pretences, showing the nation that everything is hunky dory in the Pakatan Rakyat camp.”
Khairy said this had exposed the marriage of convenience (Pakatan) for the sham that it is.
He added that PAS had already made clear that it was unhappy with the dominance of PKR and DAP in states governed by the Pakatan alliance with its senior leaders questioning Anwar’s suitability as Prime Minister.
“For all its talk of a new Malaysia and a real alternative against Barisan Nasional, Pakatan Rakyat remains a politically expedient arrangement among strange bedfellows bound not by a shared ideology but by a common lust for power.
“The rupture has begun.”
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