UMNO information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan has called on parties who are disgruntled and dissatisfied with the court’s decisions not to drag their disputes into street rallies.
He said any dissatisfaction raised should lawfully be taken to court and not through street protests.
“When a judge makes a judgment of guilt, the next course of action is to file an appeal through the Federal Court and not take it to the street.
“The public is not the judge on any criminal case. Hence, what they are trying to show is merely to gain cheap publicity,” he told reporters at the parliament lobby, here yesterday.
Ahmad Maslan, who is also a deputy finance minister, was responding to the member of parliament for Batu, Tian Chua who was reported to have announced the opposition’s plan to hold a street rally on March 21 at the Kajang Stadium, in protest to a court decision against PKR’s de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and DAP’s Karpal Singh.
Anwar was found guilty by the Court of Appeal on March 7, on a charge of sodomising his former aide, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan in 2008.
Four days later, Karpal was fined RM4,000 by the High Court on the charge of sedition for questioning the Sultan of
Perak’s decision for dropping Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin as Perak Menteri Besar in 2009.
Ahmad Maslan said the people should not be influenced by the opposition’s call and not to involve themselves in the rally. — Bernama