Gerakan issues show cause letter to Lee for accepting PDC, IP posts

NST - Gerakan has issued a show-cause letter to Datuk Lee Kah Choon, the party's former deputy secretary-general, demanding him to explain why disciplinary action should not be taken against him for accepting two top posts in the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) and InvestPenang (IP).
"The issuance of the show-cause letter was decided during the party's central working committee meeting last night," acting president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon said today.

Gerakan, he said, had previously directed party members to relinquish all appointments as municipal councillors and village security and development committee (JKKK) members in all states ruled by Pakatan Rakyat.

"Therefore Lee's actions are in contravention with the principle and spirit of this general directive of the party," Koh said in a statement.

Koh said the directive was based on the premise that Gerakan now had to play a role as an effective opposition in Penang. "We cannot do this objectively if our own members hold key positions in the state and local administration." more...