The Parliament is dead, and the nation is being driven down a dangerous path, the son of former deputy prime minister Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman lamented today following the tabling of the amendment to Act 355.

Mohamed Tawfik Ismail said today was a sad day for Malaysia as Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia had pressed on with the tabling of the motion, despite him having served an originating summons to Pandikar yesterday to deter the matter amendments being tabled in Parliament today.

Tawfik, who had filed the summons at the Kuala Lumpur High Court last Friday, told reporters yesterday after serving it on Pandikar, that he does not expect to see the amendments to Act 355 being in the Parliament order paper today...