Police reports lodged over fracas

PKR has filed two police reports, claiming that MIC Youth had carried out a pre-planned attack outside the PMO.

KUALA LUMPUR: PKR has lodged two police reports over the fracas which took place outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya.

The reports were lodged by PKR members K Gunasekaran and S Gobikrishnan at the Travers police station here.

“I have all the evidence to prove that the scuffle was pre-planned by MIC Youth where they hired gangsters to assault PKR members,” said Gobikrishnan.

“Their target was PKR vice-president N Surendran and not (Puchong PKR division chief S) Murali,” he told reporters.

Yesterday, the MIC Youth members, led by their chief T Mohan, and PKR members clashed outside the PMO and both groups blamed each other of being the catalyst.

While PKR had gone to the PMO to submit a memorandum demanding that 17-year-old student B Reshina be issued a MyKad, the MIC delegation was there to thank the prime minister for issuing identification cards and birth certificates to Malaysian Indians under the MyDaftar programme.

Also present at the police station were Subang MP R Sivarasah and Teluk Intan MP M Manogaran.

Gobikrishnan also claimed that a MIC Youth leader’s wife had sent a Twitter message yesterday, stating: “Surendran where are you? We (MIC) are waiting for you!”

He said that the MIC Youth leader’s wife was also present outside the PMO and her message indicated that the attack was pre-planned.

“Can Mohan clarify the twitter message?” he asked.

Meanwhile, Gunasekaran said that MIC had nothing doing with this matter.

“Our (PKR) battle is with the National Registration Department (NRD) and not MIC. In the first place, PKR does not recognise the MyDaftar campaign which was an election gimmick,” he said.

Meanwhile, Sivarasah and Manogaran urged the police to take action against the MIC Youth members involved.

In a related development, Mohan gave the assurance that Reshina would be able to sit for her examination.

“We will help sort out her citizenship documents,” he said.

The MIC Youth leader also reitereated his challenge that if Surendran could prove that there were 300,000 stateless Malaysian Indians, he would quit his post.