Pejabat
Keadilan Nasional.
13th
January 2000
Dr
Chandra Muzzafar,
It
is with great regret that I have to write to you. The situation has got so
bad and the future of the party is at
stake and the chances of getting Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim out of prison is
getting slimmer by the day. The main reason being that there is too much time
wasted by those jostling for power and undermining each other. At this stage we
should be concentrating on common objectives.
I
am very much aware of the mud slinging that you have been throwing at me and
trying to make me a scapegoat for the failure in the last General Elections.
Kindly explain the following:
1.
Why
did you inform Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim that I was responsible for ‘blocking’
the Indian candidates when you knew very well I did not have any say in the
final decision of the candidates.
2.
Why
did you report to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim that it was I who sent Fuziah to Kuantan at the last minute when you
know that was a lie. Fuziah was given the Hulu Langat seat originally agreed to
by you at the ‘official’ meeting. The letter authorizing her to contest in Hulu Langat was issued to her on Thursday
morning after the MPT had endorsed the final list. which had been finalized by
you and announced by Wan Azizah. When the MPT convened that morning you
insisted that Wan Azizah just read out the ‘final’ list prepared by you. When I
just tried to make a report on the matter you shouted at me not to proceed but
just to allow Wan Azizah to read out the final list. At that point I got out of
the room as there was no point in me staying to be insulted. It was on the
appeal of the other MPT members that I agreed to come back to the meeting.
The Letters of Authority to the
candidates, particularly to Fuziah,
were issued that morning in the presence of Wan Azizah, you, Tien Chua
and myself at the Bilik Gerakan. At that time you did not make any objections
to Fuziah contesting in Hulu Langat then. but you chose to work behind our
backs and pressured Wan Azizah at her house and on the telephone causing her
great distress.
3.
As
chairman of the Election Committee appointed by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim you
blocked me from doing my work in every possible way. You were the only person
in the negotiating team and did not give any feedback saying they were
‘confidential’ whereas the PAS and DAP and PRM committee members knew what was
going on. We could only get sporadic information from some of the other party
members. You refused to allow my Committee to advise you or give any proper
feedback on the situation on the ground. When you came to one of my JK
Pilihanraya meeting uninvited, you overheard me telling the State leaders to
submit the ground reports to me. Without knowing what report it was I was
asking for, you intervened and asked that the State leaders send the reports
direct to you. Even though it was wrong of you to do so I did not object to
your intervention as I continued to show respect to you as the Timbalan
President. After all it was I who
suggested your name as Deputy President of Adil in the early stages when
we had the preliminary meetings at my house even before it was formed. I even
stayed out of Adil and only remained as an adviser in the background. Under
your leadership Adil got nowhere.
4.
When
the political party Keadilan was formed, as there was no Presidential candidate
then, I even suggested your name as the President (as Datin Seri Wan Azizah was
supposed to be the Adviser) which you readily accepted but as there were some
objections from some quarters and Wan Azizah was made President. Even at that
stage I declined to be an office bearer preferring to remain only in the
background but on Ezam’s and Ruslan’s insistence I had to accept the Vice
President’s post. I did it for the sake of Datuk Seri Anwar.
5.
Even
as far back as the late eighties it was I who brought you to see Tengku
Razaleigh when we invited you to join our party Semangat 46 and asked you to be
our candidate but you declined. Back then I had great respect for you and
sincerely thought that you would be an asset to the party. I also expressed
similar views when I discussed the line up with Datuk Seri Anwar at the early
stages. It was I who suggested that you chair the Exco meeting during the early
stages as Wan Azizah was not yet ready. Now that Wan Azizah has achieved a much
better grasp of things and quite capable of carrying on, you do not show her
any respect and even tell her off in our presence and you have even thrown
files at her face. You have not given her the dignity and respect she deserves.
6.
Your
treatment of her on the last day before
Nomination Day was very shameful. You and Mohd Noor Nawawi were harassing her
perpetually at her house and over the telephone insisting her to force Fuziah
to return the Letter of Authority. You also harassed Fuziah on the telephone to
return the letter. We all could see she was getting very distressed. It got so
bad that I had to grab the telephone from her and switch it off to give her
some breathing space from your incessant scolding. But you called Mohd Noor
Nawawi’s telephone. He then forced his way into the Bilik Gerakan with his
handphone and forced Wan Azizah to listen to you on his handphone. She kept on
listening to you until she reached breaking point and when she screamed, burst
into tears and shivered violently. It brought tears to our eyes to see that you
could be so cruel to someone who needed our full support and sympathy. Those in
the Bilik Gerakan were shocked and upset by your actions and treatment of Wan
Azizah.
7.
As
such it hurts and saddens me to know that now you are trying your best to
discredit me and throwing mud in my face. I am aware of the malicious and
negative remarks and reports you have been making about me and influencing
those around you. What is worse is the lies that you have been feeding the
Ketua Pemuda Ezam about me to the extent that it hurt him so much as to make
him resign. It took Tien Chua a lot of effort to convince him to withdraw his
resignation. Ezam confirmed to me after that, that the allegations of what I
was supposed to have said came from you. Apparently you had been telling him
lies and influenced him persistently for three days prior to his resignation
when he finally issued his letter of resignation and the so-called resolution
requesting for my removal me and blaming me for ‘creating problems in the last
General Elections’. You even went further to suggest that disciplinary action
against me at the meeting of the 11th December of Biro Politik to
which I was not invited. Neither was I invited to the Biro Politik meeting
allegedly held on the 6th December 1999. Now you are trying to
strengthen your position by putting in a number of your supporters to be in Biro Politik. You even appoint your
supporters who are not even Keadilan members to be chairman of the Pembaruan
Committee and in the Disciplinary Committee. You have until today blocked me
from being in the PRM negotiating committee even though I have been instructed
to do so by Datuk Seri Anwar.
8.
At
the first MPT meeting held at Marinara immediately after the General Elections,
I raised the matter of pursuing the talks on the proposed merger with PRM but
you stopped me and said not to bring up the matter then. No reason was given.
You shocked everyone then when you proceeded to declare that Parti Keadilan has
no future as only UMNO and PAS were the dominant parties. You even quoted the
names of the past failed parties . You declared in the presence of all the MPT
members present that you had made a final decision to resign immediately and to
take up a post offered to you in an International NGO. Some members of the MPT
appealed to you to reconsider your position
and at least to wait for a while as it would damage the party to leave immediately but you were adamant and
said ‘The time spent in Keadilan was the most unhappy period of my life’ and
said your decision was final. You had in fact sent your letter of resignation
to Wan Azizah some time before that. You went to South Africa, but shortened
your trip and came back in a hurry. You proceeded with your own team to see PRM
without bringing it up to MPT for endorsement of the Committee. At that time
you had already resigned and never retracted your decision officially or
otherwise.
9.
At
the last MPT meeting you turned up as if nothing had happened. You did not even
have the curtsey to show any respect to the MPT members and to Wan Azizah, at
least to say you have decided to withdraw your resignation. You should at least
have written to Wan Azizah to say that you have decided to withdraw your
resignation. Instead you issued a press statement a few days before the MPT
meeting and did not even refer to it at the MPT meeting. Legally until such
time as when you officially announce to the MP and to write an official letter
to the President that you have
withdrawn your resignation you are still not legally reinstated.
10.
It
is regrettable that you have decided to ignore written instructions of Datuk
Seri Anwar Ibrahim saying he does not know what is going on. Neither do you
respect Wan Azizah’s decisions.
11.
As
far as the BA Seketariat is concerned, even though you have asked Jomo to reply
to my query I made to Rajen. what you did is wrong so and unbecoming of a
leader. I certainly have no wish to fight to be on that committee especially on
your long dragging meetings where no constructive decisions are ever made and
end up as a monologue with only you as the main participant most of the time,
but remember the party does not belong to you alone but to all Reformasi
supporters and you must have their interests at heart. I think you should have
the grace to offer the chairmanship of the BA Sekretariat to PAS who has the
most number of seats. You have no right or status to declare yourself as the
Chairman.
12.
Stop
making a laughing stock of yourself and bringing the name of the Party down by
your irresponsible actions.
In future kindly stop the lies and mud slinging against me
otherwise I shall be forced to take legal action against you.
Hajjah
Marina Yusoff
Vice
President
Parti Keadilan Nasional