KUALA LUMPUR – Bandar Baru Klang assemblyman Datuk Teng Chang Khim has taken offence to the now-deleted comments made by newly-elected Klang MP V. Ganabatirau over the sluice gate in Taman Sri Muda.
In two Facebook postings today, Teng slammed fellow DAP member Ganabatirau for “maliciously attack(ing) your own PH (Pakatan Harapan) comrades” and “giving a false impression that it (the floodgate) was in Klang”.
He added that the floodgate in Sri Muda is in Shah Alam, not Klang.
“What kind of MP is this? Not even sworn in but has started to do reporting on FB from home sofa and wildly accused his comrades in PH for not doing their jobs.
“Does he think that he won on his own merit in Klang with 90,000 majority votes?”
Teng also questioned Ganabatirau’s track record in the past four years seeing that Taman Sri Muda is one of the worst affected flood areas in December last year.
“Yes, that must be other people’s fault.”
Teng’s outburst came after Ganabatirau in a Facebook comment alleging that some of the elected representatives have been “out of the radar”.
Ganabatirau alluded that only two of the three assemblymen under the Klang parliamentary constituency are on the ground, as well as three out of 14 councillors.
“I’m trying my best connecting/educating them to the prioritise the public issue…I believe soon it will be better with changes (sic).”
After Ganabatirau’s postings on the sluice gates were deleted, an aide said those posts were put up by a page administrator, and that the person has been “removed”.
However, the public spat did not impress netizens, with some saying that such issues should be discussed internally.
“Please settle internally. Don’t make an issue in public and tarnish PH’s image. Act wisely. We would like to see all work together to make Klang a better place. Fighting with each other will not gain anything,” commented a Facebook user known as Tai Alice.
User Tan Kok Kian also felt that “this matter should be settled internally and not publicly”.
“As a PH supporter, I find this disheartening and upsetting. There should be a protocol before anything goes online or public!”
There were a handful of users who are in support of Ganabatirau, applauding his “transparency”.
Taman Sri Muda is part of Ganabatirau’s Kota Kemuning state constituency, and with Sg Kandis and Sentosa, they sit in the Kota Raja parliamentary constituency.
Taman Sri Muda last December was hit with the worst flood in almost 30 years, leaving at least 16 dead and thousands temporarily displaced.
The floodgates near Taman Sri Muda were also damaged during said floods.
Under the Klang parliamentary constituency are three state seats – Bandar Baru Klang, Pelabuhan Klang and Pandamaran.
Meanwhile, the Shah Alam parliamentary constituency has two state seats – Kota Anggerik and Batu Tiga. – The Vibes, December 12, 2022
