S Manikavasagam is the elected MP of Kapar(P.109).He stood under the PKR ticket.He is also in the Environmental Committee(opposition).
Malaysiakini reported that A total of 49 Barisan Nasional members of parliament are to take part in an eight-day agricultural study tour of Taiwan beginning today. Forty-one of them will leave this afternoon, while eight more will join them tomorrow.
What a lame excuse by BN MP’s ? Parliament off respecting Muslim’s Ramadhan but this crowd of BN MP’s flying off on holiday.
Hey, Taiwan is an Industrial Nation where agriculture contribute only 2.69% of their GDP (in 2007). They still import major agriculture produce expect PIG (BABI LAH), which is exported in form of Frozen Pork.
So, BN MP’s flying to Taiwan to study on PIG Farming or going for brain Washing.
Don’t think Malaysian so stupid ? Anwar can still form Government on Sept 16, as long as he can proof to DYMM YDP Agong the required majority even all 140 BN MP’s out of town.
Don’t waste Rakyat’s money even it’s BN leaders black money. It’s also sign of cowardness to face any consequence that may arise from change of government.
Better sit home and concentrate on how to help rakyat in own consituency.
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Sep 8, 2008 at 15:58:38
I think its part of a bigger plan..These must be the guys who want to join PKR but decided to get the govt to pay for their trip to strategize their alliance with pkr maybe?
Sep 9, 2008 at 16:08:21
Malaysian opposition denounces lawmakers’ ’study trip’
By Thomas Fuller
Monday, September 8, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: More than three dozen government lawmakers flew out of the country Monday in a hastily arranged “study trip” that appeared to be an effort by the ruling coalition to prevent defections to the opposition.
The trip to Taiwan, ostensibly to study farming techniques, was the latest sign of fragility inside the Barisan National, or National Front, the coalition that has governed Malaysia without interruption since independence from Britain 51 years ago, but which is undergoing a leadership crisis and internal turmoil.
Malaysia’s resurgent opposition is waging a campaign to woo enough members of the coalition to bring it down, and in recent weeks smaller parties in the National Front have openly flirted with the idea of leaving the coalition.
Top government officials have dismissed the challenge by the opposition as unrealistic. But they also have publicly asked government lawmakers to sign pledges of allegiance to the ruling coalition.
Officials insisted Monday that the weeklong trip by about 50 members of Parliament - representing more than one-third of government lawmakers - was strictly for study purposes.
“We are going to Taiwan to study about agriculture,” Bung Mokhtar Radin, a member of Parliament from the eastern state of Sabah, told Reuters at the airport. “There’s nothing political about this trip.”
Salehuddin Hashim, secretary general of the National Justice Party, which leads the opposition, said members of Parliament had been forced to go against their will, describing it as a “kidnapping.”
“This has obviously nothing to do with agriculture,” Salehuddin said. “It’s a very clear sign of the anxieties and insecurities inside Barisan.”
The leader of the opposition, Anwar Ibrahim, returned to Parliament last month after a 10-year absence. He has set Sept. 16, the anniversary of the eastern states of Malaysia joining the federation, as a deadline for defectors. He needs control of 30 more seats to unseat the government and form his own.
Salehuddin said the Taiwan trip would affect the party’s plans to win over defectors but would not elaborate on how.
Tricia Yeoh, director of the Center for Public Policy Studies, a research organization, described the government’s reaction to the opposition’s challenge as a mixture of “fear and incompetence.”
“The Barisan government is really grasping at straws,” she said.
The Taiwan trip, Yeoh said, will give senior officials from the party an opportunity to try to dissuade potential defectors by lavishing expense money on them and striking deals.
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