May 21, 10
1:51pmKapar MP S. Manikavasagam has received yet another "threatening" SMS. And this time, it came from a fellow PKR member.
The MP, who is widely known as "Mike", revealed that he received the SMS from an aide of a Selangor executive councillor on Tuesday morning.
Manikavasagam said the sender called him kurang ajar (rude), and that the SMS was racially-charged. The SMS also condemned him for hitting out at Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim over a sand scandal.
However, Manikavasagam declined to reveal more details about the message, or to identify the sender.
He also said that while he did not tell Opposition leader and PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim about the SMS, Anwar had come to know about it.
"I felt threatened and intimidated by the SMS," said Manikavasagam.
However, he added, the sender had met up with one of his friends and "expressed regret" over the incident.
"But I don't consider it to be an apology," he said.
Party disciplinary action
Manikavasagam also said he was ready to face the PKR disciplinary council if it were to summon him.
"I have nothing to hide. I'm not the one who is corrupt. What I am doing now is based on complaints that I have received as the head of the party's public complaints bureau," he said.
The MP also stressed that no matter how harsh any disciplinary action is taken against him, he would remain loyal to the party and would not defect.
He denied that his actions and obvious spat with the PKR-led State government would affect the party negatively.
"This is just a clean-up of the party. The (sand scandal) complainants told me that they were also ready to take their grouses to Umno. I can't let that happen," he said when met outside the Klang police station this morning.
Death threats
Manikavasagam went there to have his statement recorded over a report that he had made earlier on death threats against him.
On May 13, he lodged a police report that he had received three death threats on his hand phone.
He claimed that the caller used vulgar words, and had threatened to kill him and his family.
The threats surfaced after he alleged corruption in the State government-owned sand and minerals mining company Kumpulan Semesta Sdn Bhd.
This caused an even bigger strain between him and Khalid (right), especially after his well-documented grouses about the integrity of the State government watchdog Selangor Select Committee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat).
Manikavasagam also had red paint splashed into his house, and on his and his wife's cars on the morning of May 16, with a threatening note attached to one of the bags of paint.
Source from :http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/132374
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