Khalid complains to ROS, PKR risks deregistration

Wg321: Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim must exhaust all his internal remedies first. If he has any grievances against the Disciplinary Committee in PKR, he must file his complaint to its Appeal Board within 14 days which he had not done.

The decision of the Appeal Board is final and cannot be question in any court of law under the Societies Act.

The proceeding of the Disciplinary Committee is not the same as proceedings in a court of law. Therefore the Disciplinary Committee can make a decision without regards to technicalities and legal form.

This is similar to Section 30(5) of the Industrial Relations Act 1967. The short notice of four days is not fatal. Khalid was given two dates to choose to attend the domestic inquiry - Aug 8 and Aug 9.

In his legal notice’ he claimed he was not free on Aug 8 but he did not say he is not free on Aug 9, which is a Saturday.

But he did write a long letter of reply against the entire allegations in the show-cause letter against him. Thus the rule of natural justice has been complied with.

Oh Ya?: I can't believe the amount of vengeance and hate he is harbouring. It is totally contrary to his victim image at the beginning of the crisis.

Not only is he willing to be made use of by Umno which he despised after losing his Guthrie job, but now he wants to burn down the house that he has helped build all these years just because his leaders dumped him.

In so doing, is he not lending credence to accusations that he has been compromised?

Voiceless: If PKR had sacked Khalid because he had breached party discipline, then he must be removed according to party constitution and procedures.

If PKR had not followed its own rules, and did injustice to one its 'prominent' members, how then can we expect them to be just and fair to the man on the street when it comes to power.

If PKR had followed all its own rules, why should they be worried about Khalid going to the Registrar of Societies (ROS)? In the end, the truth will have to come out.

Not Convinced: Voiceless, have you been living in Malaysia lately? Trust ROS, you say. Not in a thousand years.

Mushiro: By complaining to ROS, we know Khalid has an evil heart. There is nothing that Khalid can gain by this move, but he is hoping that ROS can deregister PKR and break it. Only a cheap and wicked person will employ such tactics.

JustAMalaysian: I have never seen a man so desperate to cling onto something which, in the first place, does not belong to him. Despicable, that's what you are, Khalid. Shameless and vindictive, too.

Lukesky: This just shows Khalid does not really care anymore about the impact of what he is doing. All that matters is his ego.

Backed into a corner by his former colleagues in PKR and DAP, he is implementing a scorched earth policy of destroying everything before he is forced to step down.

Dalvik: All the recent actions from Khalid have proven that Khalid is indeed toxic for both PKR and Pakatan Rakyat. How could an individual want so badly to see his party or even the opposition coalition collapse?

Clearly something bigger is brewing.

MalaysianVoter: Khalid, each passing day you continue to surprise me with the new and unthinkable crazy moves.

Overnight, you have fallen from hero to zero. What a desperate man you have become - a pitiful old man struggling for survival.

I'm Malaysian: You are all attacking Khalid personally - no one argued against the legality of Khalid's moves. Surely he is entitled to his legal rights. He is not a criminal, he is the MB.

Muhibbah: He sinks deeper with this latest action. One man trying to destroy the very party that nominated him for the MB’s post. Recalcitrant indeed.

NewMalaysia: From the moment PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail proved that she has the majority support from 30 state assemblyperson, Khalid has lost the plot.

Unless Khalid can prove otherwise, he has lost all legitimacy to continue as MB. He can give all sort of reasoning and excuses but whatever he does next will only cause further damage to himself.

He has lost the people’s mandate, everything that's follow now will have no legitimacy in the eyes of the voters.

Fair Play: It would be poetic justice indeed if the act of Khalid in bringing in the ROS led to the de-registration of PKR to enable all their MPs and state assemblypersons to join DAP to form the first truly multiracial political party at the national level with Anwar Ibrahim as its president and Lim Kit Siang as deputy president.

This will be the first in Malaysia political history and herald the dawn of a new beginning. The party could be renamed PKR-DAP or any other appropriate name.

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