Senator heads PKR's new recruits list

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PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli today announced the recruitment  of five new personalities by the party  including former Selangor PAS ulama wing committee member, Wan Ji Wan Hussin.

 

Wan Ji's jump to PKR comes after the recent move by PAS activist Syeikh Omar Ali and lawyer Zulhazmi Shariff to join DAP last month. PAS progressives seem to find pastures greener outside the party.

 

Wan Ji, who was arrested  in September last year under the Sedition Act is known to be a progressive young ustaz who is no stranger to the  authorities especially the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) who once banned his sermons in state mosques.

 

His new position in the PKR youth exco will see him tasked with drawing  more Islamic-educated people to the party.

 

Wan Ji ( photo ) is a graduate from Karachi, Pakistan and the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo with a speciality of the Hadith (the Prophet’s words).

 

Meanwhile, former student activist Ahmad Syukri Abdul Razab has been appointed PKR youth organising secretary tasked with strengthening and increasing the number of youth members.

 

Ahmad Syukri, a human right activist, is also a vocal student leader heading the pro-PAS Islamic Student Coalition (Gamis) and the pro-Pakatan Malaysian Student Solidarity (SMM) coalition when he was still an undergraduate.

 

Focus on the young

The other new party recruits are former chief executive officer of the Selangor economic advisor office Dr Fahmi Ngah and newly-minted senator Siti Aisyah Syaik Ismail who have been tasked to attract professionals and young women respectively to the party.

 

Meanwhile, two law students - Mohammad Zaki Abdul Shukor and Muhammad Affendy Hasni - who were elected as the chairperson and deputy chairperson of the party’s student wing (MKM) were entrusted tasked to get more college and university students to join the party besides  focussing on campus elections.

 

Rafizi ( photo ) in a statement said it was important for the party to seek young people from all walks of life as they will determine the fate of the nation through the next general election.

 

“We will continue to open the space to the young people from students, to activists and professionals so that the soul of the party, which is run by youths will remain, in line with Anwar Ibrahim’s tenets, that changes can only happen with the participation of youths,” he said.

 



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