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DAP rep ejected from Perak assembly on last day of sitting

PERAK DUN | Howard Lee (DAP-Pasir Pinji) was ejected from the Perak state assembly this morning, after attempting to raise a motion to refer Khusairi Abdul Talib (BN-Slim River) to the rights and privileges committee.

When contacted, Lee told Malaysiakini that state assembly speaker S Thangeswary had denied his right to table the motion, and instead ejected him from the proceedings, which will end today with voting on the state budget.

“Rather than accepting (the motion) and allowing the rights and privileges committee to do its job to decide how to treat the situation, the speaker denied my right to table the motion.

“And instead, I was the one who actually got sent out,” said the Perak DAP Youth chief, who also claimed that the speaker called him a “budak nakal” (naughty boy) after he refused to follow her orders to sit down...

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