COMMENT DAP chairperson Karpal Singh's continuing public display of dissent over decisions taken by juridical bodies within the party in respect of its deputy secretary-general P Ramasamy is surprising by any measure.
‘Dissent' must rank as a modest description of Karpal's public deportment in the matter of Ramasamy's alleged violation of the rules of consultative process within the party.
Self-indulgent rancour may well be the more accurate phrase for Karpal's publicly-aired criticisms to which sections of the mainstream media have given predictably gleeful coverage.
Karpal's behaviour would be startling under normal circumstances; in the immediate prelude to a general election, it is nothing less than astonishing...