Hukuman kepada Sothinathan kerana menegur kesilapan
regim UMNO Barang Naik, adalah jauh lebih baik
berbanding nasib DS Anwar Ibrahim.
Inilah contoh tindakan yang biasa dilakukan oleh
Kerajaan Regim Kuku-besi Kominis.
Sesiapa yang bersuara demi kebaikan akan dihukum,
kerana bertentangan dengan nafsu buas pihak atasan.
Deputy Minister suspended over Dewan outburst
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk S. Sothinathan has been suspended
as Deputy Natural Resources and Environment Minister
for three months effective yesterday for breaking
ranks with the Government in Parliament.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said
Sothinathans action was not befitting his role as a
member of the Barisan Nasional front bench.
Yes, we made a decision to suspend him for three
months. It is with immediate effect, for what he did
in Parliament.
Sothinathan: Relieved of duties for three months.
He is a member of the front bench and should not have
taken a stand like what he did, criticising his own
Government.
This, Abdullah added, is certainly a breach of party
discipline.
The Prime Minister was speaking to reporters yesterday
after delivering a keynote address at the two-day
Investors Conference organised by Bank Negara in
conjunction with the 30th annual meeting of the
Islamic Development Banks board of governors.
Asked if this was the first time a minister or a
deputy minister had been suspended, he said that it
was. Theres always a first time.
Abdullah said he had received the Kings consent to
suspend Sothinathan.
Sothinathan would however remain an MP (of Teluk
Kemang) and resume his duties as deputy minister when
the suspension ended, he said.
It is understood that Natural Resources and
Environment Minister Datuk Seri Adenan Satem will
handle the duties of his deputy during the three-month
period.
Adenan who was approached at the Parliament lobby
yesterday declined to comment on the suspension.
On Tuesday, during the debate on the motion under
Standing Order 18(1) by Lim Kit Siang (DAP Ipoh
Timur) over the de-recognition of Crimea State Medical
University in Ukraine, Sothinathan had sought
clarification from Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr
Abdul Latiff Ahmad on why CSMUs degrees were no
longer recognised when they were in 2001.
Sothinathan had also questioned why the Higher
Education Ministry had issued No Objection Letters
to unqualified students, adding that as a party
responsible for the welfare of Indians, MIC was duty
bound to speak up.
Minister in the Prime Ministers Department Datuk Seri
Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz said Sothinathan broke ranks
with the front bench when he stood up in the Dewan
Rakyat to question Dr Latiff over the CSMU issue.
Following the ruckus, Nazri said he had informed
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who
is the Barisan Whip, of the incident.
I provided the tape and Hansard of the proceedings to
Datuk Seri Najib for him to have a look at it so that
he can inform the Prime Minister, he told a press
conference at the parliament lobby.
As a result, he said, the decision was made to suspend
Sothinathan for three months with all his privileges
and responsibilities as Deputy Minister revoked.
He is now only an MP for his constituency and he will
sit with the backbenchers. What happened is
unprecedented but he is at fault. That is why action
has to be taken against him, he said, adding that the
decision was a prerogative of the Prime Minister.
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