father/son tag team match against KJ, RP's chiefy

shin min chinese daily - the chinese paper that exposed it all. remember the bashing of the wife stealing lawyer?

KJ hinted that that was a mysterious and greater force which was manipulating ng ah teck for suddenly attacking him. hardly did he know that that force was JJ, the long lost son of ah teck.

when warding off ah teck lauhanku's tofu soft blows, wham! bamm!! alakazam!! from behind JJ executed his deadly groin kick. ouch!! KJ was hit which explained why he always covered there whenever he did his walkabout round in the province.

luckily for KJ, he wore his ball-guard, nothing devastatingly. the precious were still dingdonging there. now it was his turn to hit back. a tight slap! spraccccccccck!! ooh!! both father and son team were hit with five fingers printing reddening across their cheeks. and the fight went on......
Former Reform Party chairman takes its chief to task

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 01:43 PM PDT


By Ng E-Jay

Former Reform Party chairman Ng Teck Siong has spoken to the mainstream press, taking Kenneth Jeyaretnam, the party’s Secretary-General, to task for making remarks that implied the party was a rudderless vessel devoid of leadership under Mr Ng’s charge.

Mr Jeyaretnam had said during an interview with TODAY newspaper that when he assumed leadership of the party in April last year, it was a “drifting, rudderless empty vessel” in which “morale had dwindled, the number of members had decreased and there hadn’t been central executive committee meetings for about four or five months.”

Mr Ng held a press conference on Saturday evening at Hong Lim park during which he read out a personal statement to a gathering of around a dozen, refuting Jeyaretnam’s claims.

In his statement, Mr Ng revealed that there had been a total of four CEC meetings held between October 2008 and March 2009. Meetings in Dec 08 and Jan 09 had been called off due to the holiday season. Photocopied minutes of the meetings as well as attendance lists were put on display by Mr Ng at Speaker’s Corner to demonstrate the veracity of his assertions.

Mr Ng also said that the party’s coffers were slowly being built up by sales of JBJ’s books, an activity that Mr Ng claimed was frowned upon by Kenneth Jeyaretnam.

Mr Ng then went on to elaborate on the events surrounding the CEC meeting held on 26 April 09 which resulted in the motion of no-confidence passed against him as well as the election of Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam as Secretary-General.

According to Mr Ng, several CEC members had refused to sign the attendance list and were not allowing the meeting to proceed as planned. Mr Ng then vacated the meeting. He was absent when the motion of no-confidence was passed against him.

Mr Ng said this incident was “terribly unfortunate”, as he had originally intended to “embark on the party’s second phase of development” after expelling a couple of members including Mr Balraj Naidu from the CEC.

On Sunday, Mr Ng also spoke to the Shin Min Daily News, which quoted him as accusing Mr Jeyaretnam of displaying arrogance and leading the party down a misguided path.

During his interview with Shin Min, Mr Ng countered Jeyaretnam’s earlier allegations that he had failed to find a successor to the post of Secretary-General in a timely fashion by stating that a decision had been made to elect a new Secretary-General in April 09, but Mr Jeyaretnam had been very impatient with the process.

Mr Ng also asserted that the Reform Party under Kenneth Jeyaretnam’s leadership has lost its original direction as laid out by the late J.B. Jeyaretnam. He said that Mr Jeyaretnam’s sole focus on economic matters to the neglect of political rights was misguided.

Mr Ng also expressed interest in contesting the next general elections.



Kenneth Jeyaretnam says he will not respond further

Separately, Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam told the Shin Min Daily News that it would be inappropriate for him to continue responding to Mr Ng Teck Siong’s comments.

Mr Jeyaretnam would only clarify that when he told TODAY reporter Loh Chee Kong that the Reform Party was a rudderless vessel at the time he assumed leadership of the party, he was referring to the unfilled post of Secretary-General, and his remarks were not meant to be an indictment of Mr Ng or anyone else.