PKR has managed to garner a police permit for a ceramah in Johor Selatan district featuring its de facto leader tonight.
According to party secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution, the event in the Johor Selatan district was granted a police permit late yesterday afternoon.
However, he said there are many other scheduled events which have yet to receive permits.
“There were no response to some of our applications, some were rejected, while some were verbally rejected,” he told media after the opening of the party’s 8th national congress at Pulai Spring Resort, near Johor Baru.
The lack of police permit, he said, has not deterred PKR from going ahead with its events while yesterday's series of ceramah garnered “good support” from Johoreans.
“I was in Taman Daya, the deputy president (Azmin Ali) was in Kulai and the support we received was more than what we received five years ago. It was never the case seven years ago, but now this is normal,” he said.
He added the “sign” that the party is receiving from Johor was “the same signal received from Perak and Selangor” before the 2008 general election.
Pakatan Rakyat had won over these states, although Perak was wrested by BN following a number of defection.
Heavy police presence
Malaysiakini's visit to a ceramah in Gelang Patah last night, attended by a crowd of about 200, found heavy police presence where at least 50 uniformed personnel were seen at the scene, backed up with two police trucks.
There was also a checkpoint mounted on the road leading to the PKR branch office in front of which the event was held, featuring Anwar, Johor chief Dr Chua Jui Meng and UIA professor Abdul Aziz Bari.
However, no untoward incident was reported there or in any of the events scattered throughout Johor Selatan.
“There were no incidents, but the fact that there was heavy police presence was as if they wanted to scare people from coming,” deputy president Azmin said when met.
It is learnt that all six events were heavily guarded by police, but the speakers were not stopped.
He added that Chua will be submitting a report to Johor police chief Mokhtar Mohd Shariff over the permits which were already granted but revoked at the last minute.
Mokhtar yesterday told Malaysiakini that the police had only rejected one application for “security reasons” and urged PKR to lodge a police report on the permits which were revoked.
According to party secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution, the event in the Johor Selatan district was granted a police permit late yesterday afternoon.
However, he said there are many other scheduled events which have yet to receive permits.
“There were no response to some of our applications, some were rejected, while some were verbally rejected,” he told media after the opening of the party’s 8th national congress at Pulai Spring Resort, near Johor Baru.The lack of police permit, he said, has not deterred PKR from going ahead with its events while yesterday's series of ceramah garnered “good support” from Johoreans.
“I was in Taman Daya, the deputy president (Azmin Ali) was in Kulai and the support we received was more than what we received five years ago. It was never the case seven years ago, but now this is normal,” he said.
He added the “sign” that the party is receiving from Johor was “the same signal received from Perak and Selangor” before the 2008 general election.
Pakatan Rakyat had won over these states, although Perak was wrested by BN following a number of defection.
Heavy police presence
Malaysiakini's visit to a ceramah in Gelang Patah last night, attended by a crowd of about 200, found heavy police presence where at least 50 uniformed personnel were seen at the scene, backed up with two police trucks.
There was also a checkpoint mounted on the road leading to the PKR branch office in front of which the event was held, featuring Anwar, Johor chief Dr Chua Jui Meng and UIA professor Abdul Aziz Bari.However, no untoward incident was reported there or in any of the events scattered throughout Johor Selatan.
“There were no incidents, but the fact that there was heavy police presence was as if they wanted to scare people from coming,” deputy president Azmin said when met.
It is learnt that all six events were heavily guarded by police, but the speakers were not stopped.
He added that Chua will be submitting a report to Johor police chief Mokhtar Mohd Shariff over the permits which were already granted but revoked at the last minute.
Mokhtar yesterday told Malaysiakini that the police had only rejected one application for “security reasons” and urged PKR to lodge a police report on the permits which were revoked.
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