For Karpal’s sake, no nepotism please
After lionising the Tiger of Jelutong as the paragon of democracy, the worst thing we can do to his legacy is to associate him with nepotism. His rather naive biographer may have thought he was doing Karpal Singh a favour by claiming that Karpal’s wish was for his son to be the candidate in the Bukit Gelugor by-election. But it is a grave mistake if Karpal’s reputation is to be soiled with traces of nepotism, the antithesis of democracy.