KUALA LUMPUR: Wanita DAP today turned the tables on former Penang deputy chief minister Dr P Ramasamy over his statement on the participation of companies in Selangor's demand responsive transit (DRT) pilot project.
Its chief Teo Nie Ching said the calls made by Ramasamy for Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh to resign from her post over the participation of a company linked to her husband in the pilot project were "unfair" and "premature".
She also questioned the former DAP stalwart why he did not make the same demand against Lim Guan Eng when the latter was investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) over the Penang undersea tunnel project.
"Why didn't Ramasamy (when he was the Penang deputy chief minister and still a DAP member) make the same demand when the then party's secretary-general, who is now the DAP chairman, was charged in court?
"Why is he changing his stance now? Is it because he did not want to offend the party's secretary-general at the time?
"And now that he is in a non-governmental organisation, is he trying to impose on others?" asked Teo.
The deputy communications minister was asked to comment on the calls made by Ramasamy for Yeoh and her husband to resign from the respective posts over the selection of Asia Mobility Technologies Sdn Bhd (Asia Mobility) in the pilot project for the Selangor mobility initiative.
"I think such calls are unfair to Yeoh.
"I also believe that Yeoh is ready to cooperate with the authorities and be subjected to the same level of investigation if there are elements of abuse of power in the implementation of the pilot project," she said.
Puchong member of Parliament Yeo Bee Yin said no contract has been awarded yet and the bus-on-demand project is still in the Proof Of Concept (POC) stage.
Apart from Asia Mobility, Yeo said, there is another company involved in the pilot project.
"The Selangor government found that only two companies in the country have the license to operate bus-on-demand services.
"Both companies were appointed by the Selangor government to perform the POC for the project for a period of nine months.
"After that, the state government will evaluate the outcome of the POC to determine if the project will help to reduce operating costs." she said.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki said there was no issue with the pilot project since the selection of companies was made by the Selangor government and not Hannah's ministry.
