There is no love lost between M Kayveas, president of myPPP and the DAP, let alone the former recommending what the party should do and not do.

In the first place Kayveas has no basis to ask Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to take leave pending the investigations of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

Guan Eng might be political embarrassment to BN, but there is not even an iota of evidence to show that he did something wrong.

Let the MACC to investigate and come out with its findings.

Not only has Kayveas no right to ask Guan Eng to take leave, he should not suggest that I fill in the post.

Kayveas has no right to interfere into the internal matters of the DAP, or for that matter affairs of the Penang state administration.

Thus, if I have a ‘friend’ like Kayveas, I don’t think I need enemies.

Kayveas is well known to be mischief-maker. He works at the behest of Umno leaders, his patrons.

Rather than asking Guan Eng to take leave, I suggest he should ask his boss, Najib Abdul Razak, to take leave of absence so that the investigative agencies will be bold enough to do their job.

Since Kayveas has a penchant for suggesting me to take over the post rather than Deputy Chief Minister 1 Rashid Hasnon, I suggest he recommend that S Subramaniam, the president of the MIC and Health Minister, to take Najib’s position for a while.

Is he bold enough to do this? Well, if he does not like Subramaniam, maybe he should suggest G Palanivel, the man who fell out of favour with Najib. In this way, Palanivel could return and revive MIC.

By the way, nobody takes Kayveas seriously in the country. He is like a court jester, good at pleasing and humouring leaders in Umno.

He could be an erratic personality and quite prone to attack other leaders of the BN component parties.

myPPP, the party that he heads, is called a multi-racial party. However, a closer examination will reveal that the party is mainly composed of Indians who have left the MIC.

myPPP allegedly survives on the basis of funds made available by Umno, particularly during general elections.

Kayveas allegedly simply cannot tolerate dissent within the party. Many good leaders have left the party due to his intolerance.

As far as Indians are concerned, Kayveas is a joke and so too is his party.

Indians still cannot forgive him for urging the abolishment of Tamil schools some years back. In fact, there were nation-wide protests and in some effigies of him were allegedly burnt.

Kayveas can say what he wants, but he is certainly a spent force in Malaysian politics.

Will Lim Guan Eng uphold his much-touted DAP mantra?

P RAMASAMY is Deputy Chief Minister II of Penang and the DAP state assemblyperson for Perai.