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The three-year suspension of Gerakan's outspoken vice-president Huan Cheng Guan is unconstitutional, say three branches.

Kedah Gerakan Youth claims that growing dissatisfaction with the PAS state government and its policies should encourage the PKR and DAP to align themselves with the BN coalition.

In a hard-hitting statement, a Penang PKR Youth leader calls on the party to reject any attempts by suspended Gerakan vice-president Huan Cheng Guan from joining the party. But PKR leaders feel otherwise.

Sources say Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has ordered the state secretary to give written instructions to the MPSP chief to bar the PKR councillor from council meetings.

The team will look into all controversial projects to check on issues like natural and social justice, environment, human development and traffic management.

Legal action and pleas to the Penang government aside, Kampung Buah Pala villagers have now sought divine help to end the impasse.

Johari Kassim, the PKR councillor who openly defied Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng over the appointment of civil servants to municipal councils, seems to have gotten off scot free.

The proposed unity talks has been roundly criticised by some political commentators calling it a bitter betrayal to the non-Muslim supporters of Islamic party PAS.

Lim Guan Eng gets a whacking from the previous administration for concurring with Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew that infrastructure development has been snail-paced.

Party urges action to be taken on politicians involved in the alleged land scam and wants details released to the public

The Hindraf leader may seek an injunction and lodge a report to stop the ‘constant police harassment’ endured by his family over the past 18 months.

updated 3.55pm Nibong Tebal DAP divison chief Teh Hock Yong has lodged a corruption report against his party’s Jawi rep.

While Gerakan vice-president Huan Cheng Guan has announced he will stay put in his party, rumours persist that he would join PKR in the near future.

Hindraf leader, P Uthayakumar, said all Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has to do is sign an order to acquire the land, notwithstanding whether a legal proceeding was pending in court or not.

The state land office cannot caveat the land as it is the second defendant in the on-going civil suit filed by the villagers.

A temporary lifeline for Kampung Bukit Buah Pala villagers has been proposed to buy time preventing developers from demolishing homes built on land occupied for over 200 years

For starters, the state government will take stern action against any civil servants found to have committed any improprieties in the land transaction of the village to a developer.

‘The Penang government should immediately order the developer not to carry out any demolition works at the Kampung Buah Pala settlement.'

Villagers fear that Kampung Buah Pala, a 200-year-old Indian settlement in Penang, could be demolished today. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The Penang state government has approved the takeover of the historic service, but much depends on how the Transport Ministry responds to its request.

updated 5.40pm He said that the Islamic party was playing a dual-faced political game by rubbing shoulders with Umno on one side while picking up a fight with it on the other.

Kampung Buah Palla villagers cry foul over alleged graft in land alienation by state land officers and report to MACC [VIDEO INSIDE]

updated 6.54 with PKR president's comment s PAS leaders owe a thorough explanation to Pakatan Rakyat top leadership on the party's unity talks with Umno, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said today.

Some 300 Indian Malaysians living in Kampung Buah Pala in Bukit Gelugor, a quiet Tamil settlement located in heart of rapidly developing eastern part of Georgetown, face eviction this Thursday.