DAP branch calls on party leaders to hold another election

KUALA LUMPUR: With the general election not far off, DAP grassroots leaders are still fuming over the party’s dubious polls in December.

Following the action of other branches earlier, the Pantai Sepang Putra DAP branch has come forward to demand that the elections for the central executive committee be held again, calling the Dec 15 event last year illegal.

Branch secretary Ravi Ramdas said they were not happy with the polls that saw its results retabled three weeks later.

“This is our right as DAP members,” he said at a press conference in Chow Kit here yesterday.

Present were branch chairman Tamil Selvam Raman and deputy secretary Rashid Mohd Ghani.

Calling the CEC elections “null and void”, Ravi asked the Registrar of Societies (ROS) to get the DAP to hold its elections again.

Ravi suggested that the DAP sack secretary-general Lim Guan Eng Limfrom his post if the ROS were to deregister the party as a result of this “technical glitch”.

He claimed the party had neglected the Pantai Sepang Putra branch and DAP leaders had not visited the branch since the 2008 general election.

Their only visit, Ravi alleged, was around June last year when the party dismissed the former branch chairman R. Vellasamy.