MyPPP should seriously consider political third force option

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MyPPP should seriously consider political third force option

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3, 2024: Now that MyPPP president J Loga Bala Mohan is now at full liberty to administer the party’s assets following the removal of the final legal hurdle in the Federal Court, he should focus on his political priority for the party’s future.

Loga should seriously reconsider PPP’s traditional support for Barisan Nasional (BN).

Even the MCA and MIC are drowing, what more the others in BN. Only Umno is still surviving (with only 26 parliamentary seats in the 222-seat Parliament) and its future is almost bleak after the next general election (GE16) in 2027.

GE16 is barely three years away and that is still a shoirt time for any mosquito political party to prepare for a general election.

It is clear today that Malaysians and Malaysia need a third choice or third force in GE16.

It may be a humongous political task but Perikatan Nasional (PN) showed Malaysians can be receptive to change when presented with a choice, as seen in GE15.

For MyPPP and Loga, given MyPPP (PPP)’s long political experience (founded in 1953), the best solution is for it to forge and lead a coalition of mosquito political parties that include parties like Muda, PSM and others, including those in Sabah and Sarawak, as a third force or choice for multiracial Malaysians and Malaysia.

It may be a herculean task to win to govern but it can still try to win as many seats as possible to play the “kingmaker” role in Malaysian politics, perhaps at the expense of the racist PN led by the unpatriotic Muhyiddin “I Am Malay First” Yassin.

Clinging on to a sinking boat like BN is politicallly futile.

No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the court proceedings that freed MyPPP from a political stalemate:

MyPPP president Loga can now freely manage party assets

V Anbalagan

-03 Dec 2024, 03:25 PM

The Federal Court rejects ex-president M Kayveas’s bid to obtain leave to appeal in a suit. 

J Loga Bala Mohan was elected MyPPP president in September, taking over from Maglin Dennis D’Cruz who died in November 2023. (Facebook pic)

PUTRAJAYA: Newly-elected People’s Progressive Party (MyPPP) president J Loga Bala Mohan is now at full liberty to administer the party’s assets following the removal of the final legal hurdle in the Federal Court.

Today, a three-member apex court panel chaired by Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Abdul Rahman Sebli unanimously dismissed an application for leave to appeal by former MyPPP president M Kayveas to be made intervener in a suit.

Rahman said the four legal questions posed by Kayveas did not satisfy the requirements under Section 96 of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964.

An applicant must satisfy the Federal Court that the proposed appeal contains novel legal or constitutional questions of public importance which are being raised for the first time.

Sitting with Rahman were Justices Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil and Ahmad Terrirudin Salleh.

The bench also ordered Kayveas to pay RM30,000 in costs to MyPPP, represented by Loga as its public officer.

The dispute between Kayveas and Kayveas Holdings Sdn Bhd with MyPPP began when the home minister deregistered the party in January 2019.

On March 19 last year, the minister lifted the deregistration and declared Maglin Dennis D’Cruz as the party’s lawful president and public officer.

Upon its deregistration, the party’s movable and immovable properties, held under its economic vehicle Bintang Iradat Sdn Bhd, were said to have been unlawfully transferred to Kayves Holdings.

D’Cruz then filed a suit in the High Court in June 2020, contending that all assets belonging to the party were vested under the insolvency department after it was deregistered.

The Federal Court last year affirmed the High Court and Court of Appeal rulings despite a challenge by Kayveas and his company.

Upon the party’s deregistration being lifted, D’Cruz filed a vesting order to transfer Wisma PPP at Kampung Attap and 100,000 units of shares in Bintang Iradat back to MyPPP.

On Aug 2 last year, the High Court allowed the application. The party and its office bearers then took possession of the premises.

However, D’Cruz died on Nov 17, 2023, and Loga was elected MyPPP president in September this year.

Kayveas, a former Taiping MP and deputy minister, then applied to become an intervener in the vesting order application. The High Court dismissed his application early this year and that decision was affirmed by the Court of Appeal in July.

Kayveas then filed the application for leave to appeal to the Federal Court, which was dismissed today.

Lawyer Gavin Anand Jayapal appeared for Loga while Kayveas, who is also a lawyer, represented himself and also acted for Kayveas Holdings.