{"id":8773,"date":"2014-05-30T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T02:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=8773"},"modified":"2014-06-05T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T05:00:01","slug":"trickery-and-event-hijacking-by-bn-to-stage-dap-to-bn-defections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/trickery-and-event-hijacking-by-bn-to-stage-dap-to-bn-defections\/","title":{"rendered":"Trickery and event hijacking by BN to stage DAP-to-BN defections"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a twist of events, taxi driver Shanti Subramaniam\u00a0<\/span>has confirmed that she was tricked into attending a BN “conversion” reception to announce the so-called defection of DAP supporters into BN supporters. During the 27 May event, UMNO\u00a0information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan had claimed that 150 members were switching sides from DAP to BN.<\/p>\n

Following BN claims and the much publicised DAP to BN defections in Teluk Intan, Shanti, one of the\u00a0event attendees, has come out to explain that\u00a0she was forced against her will to appear as a new\u00a0BN supporter.<\/p>\n

Shanti told a press conference yesterday\u00a0that\u00a0she was pressured into\u00a0putting on a BN t-shirt by the group there. According to her, a woman and some Malay men in the camp had told her to cut a DAP card, which she refused. Later, \u00a0she was asked to tear up a DAP flag, which she also refused.<\/p>\n

Video coverage of the event shows Shanti wearing a BN t-shirt as Ahmad Maslan announced that she had\u00a0chosen BN and left DAP.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very happy because we have friends who used to support DAP, now support BN tonight,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The video later\u00a0shows reporters interviewing Shanti, where she tells them that she is still a DAP supporter and does not know of the nature of the BN event. Men dressed in Barisan Nasional shirts\u00a0then approach her to inform\u00a0her in Tamil to end the interview\u00a0session with the press.<\/p>\n

“BN hijacked the event,” says NGO organiser<\/strong><\/p>\n

It later emerged that the event was organised by a taxi-drivers’ welfare NGO.<\/p>\n

At the press conference held by Batu Gajah MP Sivakumar yesterday, event organizer and\u00a0Deputy Chair of the Teluk Intan taxi driver association, Yusof Abdul Manaf expressing frustration that his NGO based event initially meant for taxi-drivers was hijacked by Barisan Nasional.<\/p>\n

According to Yusof, the taxi driver NGO was supposed to hold the event for the taxi drivers there,\u00a0but was taken over by BN leaders. Some of the BN leaders who had attended the event included\u00a0Ahmad Maslan and\u00a0<\/span>MIC Wanita chief Mohana Muniandy.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, today, Ahmad Maslan has blamed MIC for the staging of the event, saying,<\/span><\/p>\n

“The event was arranged by MIC and they will have all the relevant information. They know the real story.” -The Rocket<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a twist of events, taxi driver Shanti Subramaniam\u00a0has confirmed that she was tricked into attending a BN “conversion” reception to announce the so-called defection of DAP supporters into BN supporters. During the 27 May event, UMNO\u00a0information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan had claimed that 150 members were switching sides from DAP to BN. Following BN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8948,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}