KUCHING, June 24- Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) will take appropriate disciplinary action, including expulsion, against four personalities allegedly involved in sabotaging the party during last month’s 13th General Election, its party president Tan Sri Peter Chin (photo) said today.
He said the party’s central committee (CC) had received numerous complaints against certain personalities, whose action in certain parliamentary constituencies was deemed subjudicial to the party which lost six of the seven seats contested.
“So far we have issued one show cause letter which was referred to the disciplinary committee (headed by secretary-general Dr Sim Kui Hian) to investigate and report to the central working committee (CWC) which is implementation arm of the CC, to take the necessary action,” he told reporters after chairing the 24th CC meeting at the party’s headquarters here.
Chin, who declined to elaborate if one of the personalities involved was SUPP Sibu chairman Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh, however, said the need for the CC to take stern disciplinary action resolutely and swiftly against members who had tarnished the party’s image was among three motions submitted at the meeting.
The other two motions were to re-register the 118,000-odd party members in all branches and to recommend that the government step up efforts to fight corruption, illegal gambling, including online and crime as well as improve security of the people.
On the CC members’ views and recommendations for the party’s poor showing, Chin said, generally they acknowledged it was not just SUPP alone that was defeated in the urban seats as other Barisan Nasional (BN) parties were facing the same predicament in the country.
On the other hand, he said, the CC members also admitted that at least one or two seats that had suffered some form of internal rift, caused certain loss of votes and contributed to SUPP’s defeat.
He said the party would also be having a series of meeting with the Registrar of Societies (ROS), which had issued show cause letters to two branches, Piasau and Bekenu, for alleged irregularities during the triennialdelegates conference held in December 2011.
The ROS which had cleared 12 other branches against similar allegations, would not allow SUPP to introduce new measures, including amendments to the party’s constitution unless such issues were resolved.
– BERNAMA
