The DAP said a reluctant Barisan Nasional can avoid “unnecessary by-elections” by freeing all ISA detainees, including M. Manoharan who has threatened to resign his Kota Alam Shah seat because he still being held without trial.
Saying it is an election that DAP does not wish to have, party information chief Tony Pua today urged Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein to immediately release Manoharan, who has openly said he will quit due to his current circumstances.
“However, if there is any by-election which is ‘unnecessary’ which causes ‘too much time, energy and ringgit’ to be spent and distracts the country from facing the current economic challenges, then this will be absolutely it, for the Barisan Nasional government itself has forced the resignation by exercising the ISA which allows for detention without trial,” Pua said in a statement.
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