Sunday April 28, 2013

GE13: NGO accepts Wong Tack’s debate challenge

PETALING JAYA: An MCA-friendly NGO has taken up DAP candidate in Bentong Wong Tack's challenge for a debate.

Shen Yee Aun, 26, who leads the Malaysian Youth Rights Movement, said he would gladly take on the activist “any time, any place”.

“I would like to question why he needs to collect public donations at DAP dinner events,” Shen said.

Referring to a posting in stopthelies.my that he owned huge tracts of land, Shen said this meant that Wong was wealthy.

“Why does he need to collect money from the poor in Bentong?”

The blog also claimed the land had been used for oil palm cultivation, a sector frowned upon by environment groups, and that Wong was a permanent resident of Canada.

(Wong has admitted that he was involved in oil palm cultivation and that he had held the PR when he ran a consultancy firm in Canada but this had been cancelled.)

Shen also challenged Wong to reveal how much funds he had collected from the public so as to be in line with DAP's competency, accountability and transparency policy.

On Friday, Wong extended the challenge for a debate to all Barisan Nasional candidates here.

Wong is battling for the parliamentary seat with MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai. There are four state seats in Bentong.

Liow, in his response, reiterated that Wong should stop diverting public attention from the allegations made against the activist.

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