Selasa, 4 September 2012

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Xavier : Kenapa PDRM Bersikap Dwi-Standard?

Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:00 PM PDT

PETALING JAYA, 4 SEPT: Ketiadaan anggota beruniform Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) untuk menjaga keselamatan awam ketika sambutan ambang kemerdekaan peringkat Selangor menggambarkan sikap dwi-standard.

Exco Kesihatan, Pekerja Ladang, Kemiskinan dan Kerajaan Prihatin, Dr Xavier Jayakumar berkata tindakan yang mengecewakan Kerajaan Negeri itu tidak menggambarkan slogan 'Tegas, Adil dan Berhemah'.

"Kita mahu, pihak polis bertindak adil berdasarkan slogannya, 'Tegas, Adil dan Berhemah' dan bukannya hanya bertugas apabila melibatkan program yang diadakan oleh Umno-BN sahaja dan pemimpin kerajaan pusat sahaja," kata beliau.

Menurut Dr Xavier, tiada seorang pun anggota polis beruniform kelihatan bertugas dalam acara sambutan yang berlangsung di Dataran Kemerdekaan Shah Alam pada Ogos 30.

Beliau turut berkata tindakan polis itu telah menyebabkan keselamatan orang ramai, pemimpin kerajaan negeri dan kakitangan awam terancam.

Menurutnya pihak polis sepatutnya mengutamakan keselamatan awam dengan tidak membiarkan diri mereka dipengaruhi unsur-unsur kepentingan politik mana-mana pihak.

Xavier sekali lagi melahirkan rasa kecewanya apabila PDRM dan Angkatan Tentera Laut Malaysia menarik diri dari acara perbarisan sambutan itu pada saat akhir.

"Adakah mereka menerima arahan dari 'tangan-tangan di atas' untuk menarik diri dari menyertai program anjuran kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat?

"Ini jelas menunjukkan bahawa walaupun kita sudah 55 tahun merdeka, kita sedih kerana institusi keselamatan masih tidak bebas dan terus dijajah," ujarnya lagi.

Sumber: Selangorku

Xavier Jayakumar: Pakatan Was Democratically Chosen & Has The Right To Invite Any Personality

Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:30 AM PDT


Dragging Sultan into Selangor N-Day Issue an Act of Mischief, Says State Exco Man

Posted: 04 Sep 2012 02:00 AM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 — A Selangor exco member today said it was "mischievous" to turn the state-level National Day celebrations into an issue, where leaders from the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition had questioned why the Sultan of Selangor was not invited.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is also Umno president, had suggested that the Pakatan Rakyat (PR)-led state government given more respect to Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim by inviting him for the celebrations.

"It is mischievous of certain people especially Umno leaders to involve the palace in this issue," Dr Xavier Jayakumar said at a press conference at the PKR headquarters today.

He said that "by protocol, the palace is usually not invited" for such events.

Xavier pointed out that Anwar was an elected MP and also Selangor's economic adviser.

"He (Anwar) was invited in his capacity as opposition leader in Parliament," Xavier said, adding that "in other countries, it's a minister position".

"I don't see why there is a query now," he said, pointing out that it was the democratic right of the state government to extend invitations for the celebrations.

The Selangor state government had on Sunday denied intentionally shutting out Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah from the event, saying that it has been the practice for the Ruler not to be invited even when the state was under BN rule.


Source: TheMalaysianInsider

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