Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) Youth has told leaders of the state BN parties to stay away from interfering in the matter concerning its sacked member, Larry Sng.

PRS has come under pressure from a number of leaders of the powerful PBB to allow expelled rebel Sng to return to its fold.

“The Youth is of the opinion that disciplinary action taken by each political party of the BN against its members is an internal matter, so we do not interfere with what they do,” its leader Mong Dagang reminded today.

“There must be good and strong grounds as to why members are sacked,” he said, adding that only the sacked members would know the reasons why stern actions were taken against them.

Mong, who is also assistant minister of modernisation of agriculture, said the sacking of indiscipline members was nothing unusual.

“It is a process in which those who could not subscribe to the majority’s decision would have to go.

“In the past, other BN component parties had also sacked their members and that PRS respected their actions.

“Therefore, PRS expects the same recognition and treatment to be accorded by other component parties,” he said.

larry sng Mong said the decision to sack Sng ( right ), who is also an assistant minister in the chief minister’s office, was not made by party president James Masing alone, but was a unanimous decision of the party supreme council members after much deliberation on a report presented by the disciplinary committee.

“In fact, delegates attending the party triennial delegates conference in Sibu on Dec 2, 2008 moved a motion calling for stern actions against nine party members, including Sng, because their many actions were seen as detrimental to and could destroy the party,” he said.

Mong stated that the Youth supported the decision taken by the party supreme council to nominate only candidate from the party to defend the Pelagus seat.

“Therefore, the question of Sng defending and standing in Pelagus in the upcoming state election does not arise at all,” he added.

Two PBB leaders told off

Mong hit out at PBB Bidayuh leader Peter Minos for asking Masing to re-admit Sng into PRS.

“I would like to advise Minos not to force us to eat the food that we do not like because when we are sick, nobody is going to take care of us,” he said.

Apart from Minos, the other PBB leader who had asked PRS to re-admit Sng was BN backbenchers chairperson Karim Rahman Hamzah, who is also the state assemblyperson for Asajaya and chief political secretary to the chief minister.

PBB president and Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud had also publicly stated that he would retain Sng in his administration and most likely nominate him again to contest in the election.

Masing had repeatedly stated that PRS would not accept Sng back and that the party had someone else in mind to contest in Pelagus.

Sng, who won Pelagus in the 2001 and 2006 state elections, was sacked from the party in 2008 for his part in organising a separate annual general meeting to the one called by Masing.

In the attempted party revolt, Sng was “elected” president at his AGM.

Since then he had been partyless, and his predicament took a turn for the worse when his application to become a direct BN member was turned down last week.

Take heed of Taib’s stance

PBB leader Minos, commenting on Taib’s statement, has urged Masing to take heed of Taib’s stance on Sng.

According to Minos, who is PBB Opar branch chairperson, Taib had valid reasons to keep Sng.

Meanwhile, Karim said Sng was good person and leader and should not have been rejected by PRS.

“Why should we reject and drop such a good person who has been doing his work well? If the people in Pelagus requested that he be replaced, then there is some basis that he be changed,” he said.

“What is more important is we have to look at the interest of the people on the ground as a whole because the yardstick is a person’s chances of winning the election as emphasised by Prime Minister Najib Razak,” he added.

Meanwhile, former PRS deputy information chief Tedwin Ngumbang, in his continued assault on Taib, painted a grim picture of PRS in the event that it was forced to accept Sng back into its fold.

Three options for PRS

Tedwin, who resigned from PRS last month as he could no longer stomach Taib’s bullying attitude towards the party, presented three options for the party.

He said the first option was for the party and its president to swallow their pride and re-admit Sng.

“The problem will be settled. Taib will be very happy and so will Sng and his father, Sng Chee Hua, and his father-in-law Ting Pek King, both of whom are business tycoons.

“Masing will help Taib to solve this problem once and for all. There will be hugs and kisses and who knows, sweeteners will be thrown in as part of the whole package.

“There is no need to bother about the reactions from the other state assemblypersons and PRS followers as they were never interested and bothered in the first place anyway,” he said.

Tedwin said the second option is to wait for Taib to push PRS into the corner, shoved down the Sng issue down PRS’ throat. Then Masing would resign, walk away and leave the political scene completely.

“The question is will PRS deputy president Joseph Entulu or vice-president Joseph Salang and the rest of the legislators follow suit? Or will they carry the torch without Masing?” he asked.

The third option opened to PRS was for Masing lead the party and its elected representatives into leaving the BN and joining Pakatan Rakyat.

“Masing and PRS will be considered as heroes - I may be wrong - by the Dayak community especially and will be welcomed by the Pakatan with open arms,” Tedwin opined.