AYER KEROH— Violence broke out on the street outside the Melaka International Trade Centre (MITC) here today where PKR is holding its annual congress.
Malay Mail understands a stone was thrown into a crowd just as the party’s Youth delegates were making their way out for lunch and Friday prayers, injuring at least one.
“His name is Fadhil and he is from Batu division. He is currently brought to the clinic for treatment and will be lodging a police report soon,” a PKR Youth member who declined to be named told Malay Mail when asked the identity of the injured man.
Clashes between PKR Youth delegates dressed in the party’s signature sky blue colours and another group dressed in all-black erupted earlier this morning inside the MITC, just outside the doors to its Classic Ballroom where the congress was taking place.
Roughly 100 people were seen fighting after PKR Youth’s newly announced permanent chairman Rashid Abu Bakar called for break at about 12.30pm.
The all-black mystery group wore a T-shirt with a PKR flag printed on the left breast and comprised youths who looked to be teens. They declined to identify themselves to the media when asked, but were present during each of the altercations.
PKR Youth chief Akmal Nasrullah Md Nasir said he too could not tell where the group was from, saying the congress secretariat might know about it.
“I don’t know,” he told reporters when asked during a news conference later. He added that he was sitting in the front of the hall.
Akmal said that anyone injured by the altercation can lodge a report with the secretariat and the police.
“I will refer to the secretariat to know what is happening. We know that the running of the congress is perfect and we respected the rights of the delegates to enter no matter which group they are from,” he said.
Several police officers were also at the scene but did not respond to media requests for information. – MALAY MAIL
At PKR Youth meet, truce is only skin deep
Perak delegate Mohamad Rukhairil Aizat Mohd Maharani openly called for those not aligned to PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to be removed.
He did not name these but referred to the wing’s annual report that highlighted the absence of leaders seen as aligned to PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Azmin Ali from party meetings.
“If they didn’t come to the meeting without any valid reason. Then resign!
“Some of them even use the name of our organisation to release statement not inline with the leadership,” he told to the cheers of about 500 of delegations and observers at Classic Ballroom in the Melaka International Trade Center (MITC) today.
In his debate of the PKR Youth chief’s policy speech, he called the group traitors and asked delegates to reject them.
Selangor Adzman Kamaruddin likened the faction’s action to mutiny and suggested that they were working for the interests of another party.
Sabah’s Mohammad Razeef Rakimin called for the wing to express support for Anwar to succeed Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the prime minister.
“Whoever that does not support Anwar as the eighth PM, please get out of this party,” he said.
In his policy speech, PKR Youth leader Akmal Nasrullah Md Nasir urged the wing not to forget Anwar’s contributions since the party was formed 20 years ago.
“The 20-year Reformasi experience should be the basis and spirit of PKR Youth’s strength.
“All the struggles and sacrifices were made not in the pursuit of positions or benefits, but for the sake of the country’s future.
“How can we forget the contributions of our president, Saudara Anwar Ibrahim, who put the interests of the people above everything else. (While having been mistreated, oppressed and betrayed, he kept going on despite the struggle,” he said.
During the launch of the Wanita and PKR Youth congress yesterday, a video of Azmin’s struggle for the sake of the party shown. – MALAY MAIL
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