Two Malay youth leaders confront group for behaving like thugs during an anti-Bersih in Komtar.
GEORGE TOWN: Two local Malay youth leaders confronted Perkasa members for their loutish behaviour during an ‘anti-Bersih’ protest at an underpass in Komtar today.
Mohd Ridzuad Azudin, the state’s Perkasa chief, had just torched 10 Bersih T-shirts in Jalan Teck Soon when PKR youth leader Amir Ghazali and Penang Jingga 13 chief Mohd Ikhwan Nasser ticked them off for behaving like thugs.
They told Ridzuad that he should use a proper channels to address his grouses with the state government and Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
“We are disgusted with such thuggish behaviour,” Amir and Mohd Ikhwan told newsmen.
Mohd Ikhwan also condemned Perkasa the mock Hindu funeral conducted for Lim on May 10 and violently disrupting an anti-Lynas Himpunan Hijau rally at the Esplanade on Feb 26.
He also hit out Ridzuad for waving a shoe at Lim during the anti-Lynas gathering.
“Today they burnt Bersih T-shirts. It is disgusting to see Perkasa doing all these in the name of Malay and Islam,” he said.
Mohd Ikhwan said he was willing to debate with Ridzuad on Malay development issues in Penang.
He said he was pleased with the Pakatan state government’s performance for Malays thus far.
20-minute protest
At 2.10pm, Ridzuad and about 20 Perkasa supporters gathered at the ground floor of Komtar after Friday prayers. About 30 policemen were on stand-by at the scene.
Ridzuad claimed that a box containing Bersih T-shirts and an anonymous letter was placed at doorstep of his office yesterday morning.
Reading aloud the letter, Ridzuad said the sender claimed to be a die-hard Bersih activist who was upset with the way the yellow campaign for free and fair elections was conducted.
The sender claimed that he was dismayed to find out that Bersih 3.0 was organised to overthrow a legitimate federal government.
Ridzuad also blasted DAP national chairman Karpal Singh as “an insane lawyer” for suggesting that Lim could become the country’s prime minister as the Federal Constitution allowed it.
Describing the DAP as an out-and-out racist party, Ridzuad challenged Karpal to “cross my dead body” first if he harboured an ambition to see Lim as the prime minister.
Ridzuad, during the 20-minute protest, called on Lim to clear his name from cyber revelations about his private life, before he torched the T-shirts.
Political reality
On Karpal’s statement, Amir later blasted Ridzuad for implying racial undertones into a constitutional argument.
Although the constitution allowed any Malaysian citizen to become the premier, he said it would be difficult due to the political reality as Malays make up majority parliamentarians.
He pointed out that even under the Pakatan Rakyat, parliamentary seat arrangement, DAP got only about 40 seats while the rest were for PKR and PAS.
“Perkasa should not take Karpal’s statement out of context … maybe he was joking. The people should reject these leftist Malay racist organisations,” said Amir.
He also criticised Perkasa for attacking Bersih’s campaign for free and fair election. “Bersih campaign is for betterment of the country,” said Amir.
Ridzuad on the other hand told newsmen that Perkasa had always championed the people’s cause and would continue its protest against Lim’s ‘misrule’.
He expressed surprise that Amir and Mohd Ikhwan have suddenly appeared to disrupt a peaceful Perkasa protest held on the behalf of Penangites.
“Where were they all this while?” he asked.
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