Recently, PPP president M Kayveas made an offer to Gerakan to merge. The PPP president did not give any prior notice to Gerakan leaders resulting in the Gerakan leadership branding him like a 'groom wanting to wed a bride but wanting to wait and see that the father of the bride dies first'.

My advice to the PPP president is that he should not lose hope and continue to pursue his vision of wanting to be part of Gerakan. For this to be possible, the PPP president should seriously consider calling for a special EGM to move a motion to dissolve PPP and its members then applying to join the Gerakan. In this way, the PPP president can at least hope to be a part of Gerakan.

The PPP president is seeking political survival, knowing very well that he may lose the chance to defend his Taiping seat in the coming general election. The PPP president has a short memory if he cannot recall that it was the Gerakan which gave Taiping to him in the last general election after he was kicked around like a ball by all the other BN component parties which refused to let him stand for their 'safe' seats.

It was the Gerakan that had saved him and gave him a political life - at least a temporary political life.

The PPP president accuses Gerakan of many things but he should look back at the manner in which he took control of the PPP when it went into a crisis. The PPP president must realise that he is being observed by many former PPP members who are not happy with the manner he took control the party in the early 90s.

Many of them still consider the PPP under the leadership of Kayveas to be an 'illegal' PPP and not the real PPP that was formed and made famous by the Seenivasagam brothers. The Malaysian public can still remember the court injunction after court injunction which revolved around the PPP leadership and how Kayveas was made the president later.

I don't want to elaborate further of the PPP fiasco but I just want to remind the present PPP president that history doesn't lie. The PPP president should stop his charade and get real.