COMMENT This column has espoused the view that the contest for the deputy presidency of PKR is a bridge that's being crossed too early and that the current choice is a false one.

All that is academic now that the race is off to a start, and all eyes are focused on the outcome of this unique exercise in direct voting of a political party's principal office-bearers.

But the latest bloviations of Zaid Ibrahim, one of three contestants for the No 2 slot, serve to underscore the contest's presumption more than its factitiousness.

Speaking like he has just emerged from long hibernation, Zaid said in a blog posting that securing justice for Anwar Ibrahim has become the sole struggle of PKR and that it was "unworthy" for it to become a "one-issue party"...