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Anwar sudah jangka Gobala akan keluar parti.....Dan ramai sudah jangka Anwar akan masuk penjara....
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Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata beliau telah lama menjangka Anggota Parlimen Padang Serai N. Gobalakrishnan akan keluar daripada parti itu.
Katanya tindakan Gobalakrishnan itu juga tidak menjejaskan PKR.
"Dia dah keluar tak apalah, biar kita teruskan," katanya kepada pemberita selepas majlis Wacana Memperkasa Fikrah Rakyat, di Shah Alam hari ini.
Ketua pembangkang itu diminta mengulas tindakan Gobalakrishnan yang dilapor meninggalkan PKR dan melepaskan semua jawatannya dalam parti tersebut, semalam.
Mengulas lanjut, Anwar berkata pucuk pimpinan parti itu bagaimanapun masih belum menerima surat rasmi daripada Gobalakrishnan berkenaan perkara tersebut.
Setakat ini beliau hanya mengumumkan perkara itu menerusi laman sosial Twitter dan setiausaha agung parti Saifuddin Nasution Ismail telah mengarahkan beliau memberi penjelasan berhubung perkara tersebut, kata Anwar.
Dalam satu kenyataan menerusi Twitter, Gobalakrishnan - bekas calon naib presiden PKR - berkata tindakannya itu disebabkan hilang keyakinan terhadap kepimpinan parti.
Pakatan dakwa bantuan angkut pengundi tidak adil
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Hujan lebat sepanjang hari Tenang telah mengakibatkan banyak kawasan di luar bandar ditenggelami banjir dan beberapa pusat pengundian terputus hubungan.
Keadaan itu menyebabkan ramai pengundi Cina - yang menjadi bank undi Pakatan - tidak dapat keluar mengundi.
Walaupun pasukan polis, tentera, jabatan pertahanan awam dan berbagai agensi kerajaan telah dikerah membantu membawa penduduk ke pusat pengundian, tetapi pemimpin Pakatan mengadnu ia tidak dilakukan secara adil.
Mereka mendakwa lebih banyak kemudahan pengangkutan dikerah ke kawasan Felda - yang merupakan penyokong kuat BN.
"Mengapa tidak ada bot untuk membawa majoriti pengundi di bandar Labis yang ditenggelami banjir tetapi Felda mendapat semua bot polis dan bomba?" soal ketua publisiti DAP, Tony Pua dalam twitternya.
Menurutnya, kegagalan untuk menyediakan bot dan lori yang cukup, dan diagihkan secara adil di semua daerah pengundian, akan menjejaskan keputusan pilihan raya kecil ini.
Ketika dihubungi Malaysiakini, Tony berkata pihak polis dan tentera seharusnya tidak hanya memberi bantuan ke tempat-tempat tertentu sahaja kerana banjir berlaku di semua kawasan pilihanraya.
Sekurang-kurangnya dua pusat pengundian - SMK Kamarul Ariffin dan dewan serbaguna Kampung Paya Merah di bandar Labis - terputus hubungan kerana teruk dilanda banjir sekitar jam 2.30 petang tadi.
Kedua-duanya masing-masing merupakan pusat pengundian bagi Bandar labis Tengah dan Bandar Labis Timur yang didominasikan pengundi Cina dan dimenangi PAS dalam dalam pilihan raya umum.
Daripada 12 daerah mengundi, PAS hanya memenangi di tiga daerah majoriti pengundi Cina pada 2008.
Menurut ahli parlimen Serdang, Teo Nie Ching, kadar pengundian tersebut hanya mencecah 20 peratus pada jam 1 tengaharai tadi, berbanding dengan 50 peratus pengundian di kawasan majoritiMelayu di Felda.
BN memperolehi 80 peratus undi di tiga penempatan Felda dalam pilihanraya umum lalu.
Dalam twitternya, Teoh memberi beberapa nombor telefon dan meminta pengundi Cina untuk menghubungi mereka untuk dibawa ke pusat pengundian.
Pengerusi SPR, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusof dilaporkan berkata tempoh pengundian tidak akan dilanjut.
Walaupun beberapa jalan ke pusat pengundian terputus kerana banjir, pelbagai agensi kerajaan dikerah membantu menghantar pengundi ke pusat-pusat tersebut, kata Abdul Aziz.
Di bawah undang-undang sekarang, tempoh pengundian tidak boleh dilanjutkan, kata timbalan pengerusi SPR, Datuk Wan Wan Ahmad Omar.
Bantahan gesa pengunduran Hosni Mubarak terus merebak
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KAHERAH: Situasi di Mesir semakin getir apabila sekurang-kurangnya 74 orang maut manakala lebih 2,000 lagi cedera selepas puluhan ribu penunjuk perasaan bertempur dengan pasukan keselamatan pada ‘Hari Kemarahan’ kelmarin.Semalam bantahan rakyat merebak hampir ke semua bandar besar di Mesir.
Di tiga bandar utama negara itu iaitu Kaherah, Iskandariah dan Suez, perintah berkurung waktu malam dikuatkuasakan tetapi gagal meredakan tunjuk perasaan.
Dalam senario huru-hara di sini, kereta-kereta perisai cuba merempuh kumpulan orang ramai dengan anggota-anggota polis menembak gas pemedih mata, peluru getah dan meriam air bagi menyuraikan penunjuk perasaan.
Beberapa sumber perubatan berkata,kebanyakan penunjuk cedera akibat terkena tembakan pasukan keselamatan.
Selain kematian dan kecederaan, banyak bangunan dan kereta turut dibakar dalam kekacauan besar-besaran di ibu kota Mesir berkenaan.
Bantahan rakyat yang masuk hari keempat kelmarin, menyaksikan berpuluh-puluh ribu orang mengepung polis di sini.
Mereka turut berhimpun di sebuah jambatan yang menghubungkan sungai Nil untuk bertempur dengan pasukan keselamatan di sini yang setakat ini menyebabkan puluhan orang maut dan 1,030 cedera.“Tunjuk perasaan ini bukan mencabar pentadbiran semasa. Tujuannya hanya satu. Ia adalah kerana anda (Hosni), anda patut pergi! Cukuplah apa yang anda lakukan kepada rakyat!” kata seorang penunjuk perasaan di sini.
Di bandar Suez, timur Mesir pula, deretan kereta kebal tiba di lokasi itu kelmarin selepas 13 orang maut dan sebuah balai polis dibakar perusuh.
Sekurang-kurangnya enam lagi turut maut di bandar Iskandariah, dengan sebuah bangunan pemerintah hangus dibakar manakala dua penunjuk perasaan terbunuh di bandar Mansoura.
Menjelang waktu malam semalam, ibu pejabat parti pemerintah, Parti Demokratik Nasional di sini dibakar diikuti kumpulan perusuh menyerbu masuk ke dalam bangunan stesen televisyen pemerintah.Gelombang kebangkitan di Mesir kali ini menyusul selepas Presiden Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ditumbangkan oleh kuasa rakyat pada 14 Januari lalu.
Di Mesir, bantahan besar-besaran itu diadakan bagi menumbangkan pemerintahan tiga dekad Presiden Hosni Mubarak.
Rata-rata, rakyat memprotes kadar pengangguran dan kemiskinan yang melambung di Mesir selain berleluasanya rasuah.
Dalam usaha menyekat kebangkitan rakyat, pemerintah menggunakan pelbagai taktik termasuk kekerasan. Malah, perkhidmatan telefon bimbit dan Internet turut disekat. Namun, semua itu gagal membendung kemaraan rakyat.
Sehingga semalam, bilangan penunjuk perasaan bertambah hingga mencecah kepada puluhan ribu orang.Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, Presiden Hosni, 82, muncul di kaca televisyen buat kali pertama kelmarin dalam empat hari sejak kebangkitan rakyat bermula.
Beliau bagaimanapun, mengumumkan bahawa tidak akan sesekali berundur.
Sebaliknya, Hosni menawarkan untuk melaksanakan langkah-langkah demokrasi, bermula dengan pemecatan Kabinet.
“Saya akan memberi lebih kebebasan sekiranya rakyat patuh pada undang-undang,” katanya.
Menurutnya, Kabinet baru Mesir akan dibentuk pada hari ini.
Sementara itu, bekas ketua Agensi Tenaga Atom Antarabangsa Mohamed El-Baradei, 68 dikenakan tahanan rumah oleh polis kerana menyertai tunjuk perasaan di ibu kota Mesir kelmarin.
Agensi
TODAY ON THE MATS.
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The outcome is predicted to be obvious - Johor being a BN stronghold. But Pakatan, the challenger will fight tooth and nail to reduce the majority. On nomination day the books stood at BN winning with a majority of 3000.
According to bookies Muhudin’s boast of 5000 winning majority is a pipe dream. Bookmakers at Labis town says the majority may be less than 2000 after witnessing the ceremah crowd pick up bigger audiences over the last three days, this despite the fact that Pakatan were refused permits for ceremahs to be held in open space, like fields.
Fairness, of course has never been the game played by the BN. Be that as it may Pakatan has played according to rule and a reduced majority will be a stark blow to BN, close to the count out at 10. Some did not dismiss a Pakatan win as the call to the young to come back to vote is materializing. But we believe that it will be a gallant fight from Cikgu Mala and her support teams.
(NewZealander Serene, I did show her your SMS you sent me for her. She says Terima Kasih.)
This fact cannot be discounted. Felda IS BN’s fixed deposit, and a timely one too with price increases etc. The Felda elders have not awakened to the fact that whilst things look fair to them they continue to close their eyes to two factors:
1. Mismanagement at Felda (v YouTube)
2. The second generation i.e. the young are restless and have sublimated their conflicts with drugs, petty crimes, unemployment and all the attendant negatives ensuing from such frustrations.
However, though a mite too late for Tenang, there is an awakening amongst Felda Settlers to right the wrongs inflicted on them. PAS’ ANAK is making significant contributions to check the fat cats in Felda. Felda countered it with their BAPAK whose wobbly baby-steps prompted UMNO to form another group to compliment BAPAK.
PKR too has joined in to fight for the Felda settlers. Yesterday some 23 Felda settlers scored a victory when the High Court here today set aside an injunction preventing them from clearing their own land without outside interference.
Previously, two groups of Felda settlers won their case respectively against Felda at Federal Court and Kuantan High Court last year.
They are from Felda Kemahang 3 and Felda Sungai Koyan 2 and 3 respectively.
It is a good sign that the settlers are fighting back. It may not affect Tenang tomorrow but anything can happen. Patients, unexpectedly have come out of comas, yes?
Time to crawl into my sleeping bag as we have an early day today.
DI MESIR HAMPIR BERJAYA.....
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2011
An Egyptian army officer salutes protesters from atop an army armoured personnel carrier in Tahrir square in Cairo January 29, 2011. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused on Saturday to bow to demands that he resign after ordering troops and tanks into cities in an attempt to quell an explosion of street protests against his 30-year rule.
CAIRO, EGYPT – JANUARY 29: Protestors chant as they stand on an army tank in Tahrir Square on January 29, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets across Egypt in Cairo, Suez, and Alexandria to call for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Riot police and the Army have been sent into the streets to quell the protests, which so far have claimed 32 lives and left more than a thousand injured.
CAIRO, EGYPT – JANUARY 29: Protestors carry an army captain on their shoulders after he tore up a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Tahrir Square on January 29, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets across Egypt in Cairo, Suez, and Alexandria to call for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Riot police and the Army have been sent into the streets to quell the protests, which so far according to health officials have claimed at least 45 lives and left more than a two-thousand injured.
Demonstrators celebrate atop an army tank in Tahrir square during protests in Cairo January 29, 2011. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused on Saturday to bow to demands that he resign after ordering troops and tanks into cities in an attempt to quell an explosion of street protests against his 30-year rule.
CAIRO, EGYPT – JANUARY 29: Protestors stand with a soldier as he waves an Egyptian flag on an army tank in Tahrir Square on January 29, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets across Egypt in Cairo, Suez, and Alexandria to call for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Riot police and the Army have been sent into the streets to quell the protests, which so far have claimed at least 38 lives and left more than a two-thousand injured. The cabinet has formally resigned, but protesters are seeking a regime change with the resignation of Mubarak. Whilst the Army has deployed tanks and Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) to the streets there has been little implementation of them, and soldiers have interacted peacefully with passing marchers. The government has installed a curfew, blockaded access to the Giza pyramids with tanks and APC's and taken measures to secure museums from looters.
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An Egyptian anti-government protester gestures in front of a burning police station near the pyramids, in Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. The pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo – Egypt's premiere tourist site – were closed by the military to tourists.
Thousands in Cairo defy curfew, demand change
CAIRO – Saying Egypt's president must go, a massive crowd of tens of thousands defied the government's curfew and filled the streets and squares of downtown Cairo Saturday in a resounding rejection of the longtime leader's attempt to hang onto power with promises of reform and a new government.
Tanks and armored personnel carriers fanned out across the city of 18 million, guarding key government buildings. But the curfew was largely ignored — by the looters who ran rampant, by protesters, and apparently by soldiers under orders to enforce it.
The death toll since the largest anti-government protests in decades began Tuesday rose to 45, according to medical and security officials, 38 of them killed since Friday. Some 2,000 injuries have been reported.
In the city's main Tahrir Square, at the center of Saturday's massive demonstration, there was only a light military presence — a few tanks — and soldiers are not intervening. Few police were seen in the crowds and the protest began peacefully. Then police opened fire on some in the crowd near the Interior Ministry and a number of them were wounded by gunshots. It was not clear whether they used rubber bullets or live ammunition.
One army captain joined the demonstrators, who hoisted him on their shoulders while chanting slogans against President Hosni Mubarak. The officer ripped a picture of the president.
AP
