Take me on if you dare: Zulkifli to Sivaras

Vocal PKR parliamentarian Zulkifli Noordin today challenged party vice-president R Sivarasa to quit and battle him for the top post.
"I challenge Sivarasa to step down within the next 24 hours and go against me, man to man
"Let PKR members exercise their democratic right to decide if it is the party's policy to defend the right of Islam and Muslims or otherwise," he told reporters in Parliament.
Zulkifli was responding to Sivarasa's statement in an English newspaper today that Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's warning to party representatives to shape up or ship out was targeted at Zulkifli.
Among others, Sivarasa said the PKR supremo's warning was aimed at people like Zulkifli who constantly issue statements contrary to the party's stand.
The Kulim Bandar Baru MP said he would willingly quit if he lost to Sivarasa in the contest for vice-presidency.
"If I am defeated, I would leave PKR because I do not want to be aligned to a party which does not defend, uphold and fight for Islam and the rights of Muslims," he added.
'They are using Anwar'
Zulkifli alleged that "Sivarasa and the likes of him" have their own personal agenda, and are using Anwar's political clout for their own purposes.
"I hope Anwar is aware of this because the public would one day know about it, and this would tarnish the party's image," he said.
He also claimed that Sivarasa was unfit to continue as vice-president. "He is unworthy because he seems to be issuing policy statements according to his whims and fancies," he said.
Zulkifli also took a potshot at Sivarasa's background by saying that the co-founder of human rights group Suaram, was only driving the NGO agenda.
"Sivarasa and his friends only struggle on the NGO front, which is a very narrow agenda, making them the handmaidens (balachi) of NGOs," he said.
Instead, he added, Sivarasa should defend the rights of all Malaysians, including Muslims and Malays, without infringing on the rights of others.
Asked if he had tried to contact Sivarasa, Zulkifli said his calls, along with that of seven other MPs, have not been answered.
Earlier, several PKR MPs, Kamarul Baharin Abas (Teluk Kemang), Wee Chee Keong (Wangsa Maju), Yusmadi Yusoff (Balik Pulau) as well as Penang PKR chief Zahrain Mohamed Hashim defended Zulkifli.
They said Anwar's statement was not addressed to Zulkifli, and that Sivarasa himself was misquoted by the press.
Zulkifli however felt that if Sivarasa was indeed misquoted, he should have called for a press conference himself to address the issue.
"It is not my obligation to call him here. He can eat for himself, why should I spoon(feed) him?" he said.
Zulkifli also defended himself against Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad's allegation that he is a PAS reject.
According to Zulkifli, he was asked to represent PAS in Baling in the 1999 elections and Karak in 2004, but declined on both occasions.
Meanwhile, Anwar told a press conference later that he did not specifically target anyone in his warning.
"What I said was that everyone who is PKR must abide by the party's agenda and principles... no specific reference was made," he said.
The opposition leader also felt that Zulkifli had crossed the line in issuing a challenge to Sivarasa.
"I spoke to him (Zulkifli) after his press conference. I feel that he could have simply explained his position... but he went overboard with his challenge which I think was unnecessary.
"He wanted to respond to the negative perception towards him and that is not wrong, but I feel that he could have refrained from issuing a challenge," he added.
Asked if he was angry with the PKR MP over his statement, Anwar replied: "It is not fair to be angry at him because his name was singled out (in the report quoting Sivarasa)."




tunku : these pakatan members....when thing get tough for them,they blame media for misquoting their statements.the media can't be misquoting all the time.coming back to the main issue, it seems that zulkifli is another blue eyed boy of anwar.majority of pakatan members especially from pkr and dap don't agree with zulkifli but anwar is always defending him,why? God knows best.so to others, stop telling or saying anything to zulkifli in future as he is "protected" by anwar.if he is not, i'm sure he would have been warned by anwar long time back.both mentor and protege protecting each other and others become fools in the party.listen to the youtube, pkr will start launching attack on DS Najib after they have nothing else to do.they can't serve the rakyat and can't unite well,so the best thing for them now is to divert the issue and make lies after lies to attack DS Najib.we are ready for the attack.