In your Saturday report ' Bar Council chief survives 'no confidence' bid ', the comment attributed to the Malaysian Bar vice-president Yeo Yang Poh - "It's politics!" - is preposterous, to say the least.

What politics are we talking about? I do not know Malaysian Bar president Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari and have no dealings with him. I did not even know he existed until I joined the Bar Council, once again, in March 2003.

Do positions within the Bar Council open the door to greater heights? If so what greater heights are we talking about? Do positions within the Bar Council ensure that you rub shoulders with the 'elite'?

Perhaps, but if so, in this day and age, who cares? Do I represent a faction? No! Are others behind me prompting these actions? No! Is there a hidden agenda in all that I did? Yes, there is an agenda but it is not hidden. It is as transparent as can be! And Mr Yeo knows this.

I only took these steps within, and without, the council when I saw a lack of transparency in several actions that affected the Bar and the practising members of the profession: in the nominations to the profession's disciplinary board, in the unmitigated delay in the disposal of disciplinary actions, in failing to appreciate, and react to, the management of a rapidly expanding profession. I could go on, but will not.

The vice-president has missed the point and, simultaneously, exposed a flank. The Bar, and the Bar Council, should be apolitical. That is my point! He has delved into politics. That is his exposure of his flank and his concerns and interests in the Bar Council and his attempt to whitewash the entire matter.

The allegation was not 'uncalled for' or 'unsubstantiated'. These words represent Yeo's interpretation of the litany of events, all of which Kuthubul has admitted.

It was not an 'overwhelming' rejection - six voted for the motion and three did not want to support Kuthubul that is close to 30 percent of the council saying that they have no confidence in the president! That is serious.

And the irony of his own statement that there are more important things to do circa the police royal commission begs the very question that I have been asking my Bar Council these last several months: 'Should we not put our own house in order before we preach to the others?'