Opposition MP R Sivarasa (PKR-Subang) was today thrown out of the Dewan Rakyat and suspended for one day for arguing with speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia over the latter's rejection in chambers of his motion on the WikiLeaks revelations.

Sivarasa yesterday submitted a motion for the House to debate the reveleations on Malaysia by WikiLeaks, which has implicated leaders on both sides of the political divide.

parliament pandikar amin anwar ibrahim lim kit siang dap pkr pc 121108 01 Explaining his rejection of the motion, Pandikar ( left ) said Sivarasa's arguments were pointless and told him to stand down.

The matter of the WikiLeaks cables, Pandikar said, were uncertain and just speculation by the media, and as such could not be discussed as fact as per Standing Order 23(1)(i), which forbids discussion on issues based on media reports.

However, Sivarasa maintained that the speaker’s rejection of his motion was not to the point, and said: "I think that my motion has been misunderstood. I do not want to know the truth of the matter, just to debate it."

With this, and Sivarasa's repeated refusal to stop arguing, the speaker ordered him suspended from the sitting until tomorrow.

In defence of Subang MP

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh) and Mohd Azmin Ali (PKR-Gombak) then stood up and emotionally defended the Subang MP.

“We are being targeted by the government,” said Anwar.

Azmin seemed particularly upset that he and two other opposition members had been named in a motion by the government to suspend them for six months for questioning the decision of the House committee on rights and privileges to suspend Anwar.

NONE The ensuing arguments saw Pandikar giving Azmin the marching orders as well, but only until 2.30pm today.

Sivarasa and Azmin ( right ) continued to stay in the House for a good 10 minutes before leaving.

Both left the House without assistance, to the cheers of “Reformasi” from the opposition bench.

The House, which was supposed to continue debating the remaining motions of the second-last day of Parliament's sitting, then degenerated into a free-for-all, with the opposition parliamentarians continuing to spar with the speaker over Sivarasa's WikiLeaks motion.

Things became worse with the BN representatives joining the fray, turning the Dewan into a discordant cacophony and prompting the speaker to walk out without announcing the break for lunch.