SEPANG: A group of disgruntled DAP members are calling for the sacking of party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng for allegedly failing to manage the party fairly.
Among the accusations raised by the group, led by DAP's Pantai Sepang Putra branch deputy chairman Rashid Mohd Abdul Ghani, were that Lim and his “cronies” had been acting like dictators and endorsing the “wrong” results in the recent party elections.
“A huge mistake happened when a losing candidate was named a winner by Lim Guan Eng, but until today the secretary-general refuses to hold fresh party elections,” Rashid, who claims to represent about half of his branch's 120 members, told a press conference here yesterday.
Sections within DAP have been upset after the party changed its Central Executive Council committee election results three weeks after the December congress to admit Zairil Khir Johari.
DAP later clarified that there had been a technical glitch in the system, moving Zairil up from 39th position to 20th, thus making him narrowly qualify for a seat on the powerful CEC.
Rashid said the party polls scandal was just one of many grouses of his group against Lim, highlighting the sacking of their branch's previous chairman, R. Vellasamy, as among “iron-fisted moves” allegedly taken by the party to weed out detractors.
“Vellasamy was vocal about things that were not right in the party. Then, some jealous people accused him of misappropriating money in a temple where he heads the committee and he was sacked,” he said.
Rashid said his group was demanding that Lim call for fresh party polls to clean house or risk facing an internal rebellion.
“We won't jump party, but if these problems keep up, we may have to look at taking a new direction,” he said.
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