Booklet on DAP polls irregularities surfaces
A booklet has surfaced in Penang on the DAP polls irregularities and how the father-and-son team of DAP secretary-genaral Lim Guan Eng and party adviser Lim Kit Siang are using under-hand tactics to hold on to power.
Athi Shankar, FMT
A 16-page booklet on the alleged irregularities and internal politics in the DAP polls, held last December, is being widely distributed here.
The booklet, entitled The Equity Report (CEC Election Fraud), is writen by one, Father Augustus Chen, and printed in Malay, English, Tamil and Mandarin.
It reveals the irregularities in the party elctions and the subsequent investigation by the Registrar of Societies (ROS).
Penang Chief Minister and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and his father, the party adviser Lim Kit Siang, have come under fire in the booklet.
The writer accused the two Lims of manipulating the vote tabulation during the 2012 party polls on Dec 15 to get their cronies elected to the central executive committee (CEC).
He also alleged that Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua Kiam Wee and Seremban MP Anthony Loke Siew Fook were tasked to carry out the dirty job.
When the election results was announced at 8.30pm, some three and half hours behind schedule, Vincent Wu Him Ven received 1,202 votes to finish in joint fifth-sixth position with Anthony Loke for the 20-elected CEC positions.
Now Bukit Bendera MP Zairil Abdullah finished in 39th position with only 305 votes.
But following a revised result a month later, Zairil suddenly received 803 votes to leap to 20th position, while Wu was relegated to 26th place with a mere 669 votes.
DAP claimed a technical glitch in the Excel spreadsheet which caused the tabulation mistake.
The author dismissed the technical glitch and blamed it on vote-counting manipulation to strengthen and safeguard the Lims’ political interests.
He claimed that Kit Siang had manipulated previous DAP elections to maintain power and control over the party.
The author said nearly 1,300 delegates did not receive notices of meeting while another 547 illegal ones, mainly from Penang, voted in the elections.
Even those who were issued the notices are said to have received the letters less than 10 days before the congress.
According to the author, the Lims had planned to rig the elections to prevent the rise of prominent party leaders, known as the “five tigers.”
The five are Penang DAP chief Chow Kon Yeow, Perak cousins Ngeh Koo Ham and Ngah Kor Ming, Johor leader Dr Boo Cheng Hau and Selangor stalwart Teng Chang Khim.
The author claimed that Kit Siang,72, sensing that this could be his last term as MP, planned to ensure a safe passage for his son to helm the party in a strong position.
