KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 — The DAP today told the Registrar of Societies (RoS) to set an appointment if they are keen on finding proof that 500 delegates were unable to attend the party’s central executive committee (CEC) election last year.
DAP’s national legal bureau chairman Gobind Singh Deo (picture) said it is ridiculous for the RoS to demand for proof of the party’s innocence now, when it had already made up its mind over the fiasco surrounding the party’s December polls.
“You do not sentence a person, and after sentencing ask to show evidence that he had done no wrong,” he said at a press conference here.
Yesterday, The Star daily reported that the RoS was still waiting for the DAP to submit letters from the 500 delegates detailing why they were unable to attend the party polls and congress last December 15.
An RoS spokesman was quoted as saying that the party had not delivered the letters to them despite claiming that the documents would help “clear the air” over allegations that 753 delegates could not cast their votes because they were not informed of the congress date.
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