Dato' Karpal Singh?

DAP chairman Karpal Singh has chided two party leaders,Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham and Datuk Teng Chang Khim, for accepting Datukships from state rulers, which is against the party's long-standing principle.

According to The Star, he said that according to the principle agreed upon by party members since the mid 1990s, DAP state assemblymen and Members of Parliament were not to accept Datukships during their tenure in office.


“From now on, the party will take action against members who don't follow this ruling,” he said, adding that the form of punishment would be decided by the party's disciplinary board after a hearing.

Ngeh, who is also Perak DAP chairman, was conferred the title in 2008 while Teng, who is the Selangor state assembly speaker, accepted a Datukship in 2010.

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Xavier is Sleeping Again?

Sri Maha Mariamman Temple’s committee chairman R. Vellasamy today took the Pakatan-led Selangor government to task over its indifferent attitude towards settling the temple’s predicament.

The company owning the land on which the temple sits in Ladang Teluk Merbau here has issued a notice to the committee asking that the land be vacated.

Vellasamy claimed that the committee had written to the state executive councillor in charge, Dr Xavier Jayakumar, on the matter but to date had yet to get a response.

As a result, the committee sought the assistance of the then Deputy Minister in the Minister’s Department Senator T. Murugiah last year who helped negotiate a deferment on the eviction, he told a press conference after leading a protest demonstration in front of the temple here today.

He added that as things remained uncertain for the temple, they wanted the state government to assist in the matter.

Meanwhile, Tan Tuan Tat, the advisor to the committee, said they wanted the state government to alienate a piece of land adjacent to the temple to the committee to be exchanged with the company concerned so that the temple need not be demolished.