Former PKR lawmaker raps Nurul Izzah over remarks in interview
Sunday, 24 Mar 20198:55 PM MYT
by bernard cheah
PETALING JAYA: A former PKR lawmaker chided Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar (pic) on her remark about Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in a recent interview.
Lawyer N. Surendran questioned if calling Mahathir a "former dictator who wreaked so much damage" is acceptable.
"Is this acceptable? In d middle of d escalating water agreement dispute & a serious ongoing territorial conflict, a prominent PH MP calls d PM a 'former dictator who wreaked so much damage' in an interview to a leading S'pore daily (sic)," he tweeted.
The former Padang Serai MP noted that the "timing, platform and manner is all wrong."
Surendran's tweet included a link to news portal Malaysiakini's story "Not easy to work with Dr M, says 'heartbroken' Nurul Izzah".
The news portal story has Nurul Izzah making the remark in an interview with Singapore's The Straits Times.
Straits Times executive editor Sumiko Tan asked Nurul Izzah what was the cause of her "broken heart".
Nurul Izzah replied "having to work with a former dictator who wreaked so much damage, not just on our lives, but the system. It was not easy."
This was in reference to when her father Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was sent to prison in 1998.
Nurul Izzah also said she really wanted the supremacy of the reform agenda to be the government's main focus.
"And I always believe in a lot of goodness in people, but of course it is important for people to prove themselves," she added.
Just Saturday (March 23), Nurul Izzah confirmed that she had quit the parliament's Public Accounts Committee.
She had tweeted on March 15 that the PAC chairperson must be a member of the Opposition to maintain accountability of the executive.
She also had announced in December last year that she would quit all PKR party posts, while remaining as a parliamentary backbench committed to reforms.Malaysia and Singapore are in the midst of ironing out several issues, including the dispute over the water supply agreement between both countries, as well as their maritime border areas.
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