Kelantan royal coup d'etat. Who are the traitors?
Police last night had arrested the private secretary to the Sultan of Kelantan, Datuk Wan Hashim Wan Daud, hours after he announced the removal of the Regent Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra without the state succession council’s authorisation.
Wan Hashim, who was appointed as private secretary to Sultan Ismail Petra last week, was seen being brought into the state police headquarters.
Meanwhile, the Kelantan palace crisis deepened with a new royal panel chief being named to replace the Sultan's choice of a regent while his private secretary remains in police custody.
Tengku Abdul Halim Alhaj Sultan Ibrahim has been named to chair the State Succession Council (MPN) which decides on the Kelantan monarchy, replacing Tengku Abdul Aziz Hamzah whom the Sultan had appointed as Regent.
MPN secretary Datuk Mohd Aiseri Alias had said Tengku Abdul Aziz's appointment was illegal and the Ruler’s son, Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra Sultan Ismail Petra is still the Regent.
During the coup d'etat in Perak in the early of last year, Umno was quick to point out and identify who were the "penderhakas" and quickly move in the charge them for various accounts of accusations which had never even exist in the first place.
What really happened in Perak was clearly a constitutional crisis. Umno wanted to make a big fuss on it to create a worst picture to further discredit the already toppled elected Perak state government and to replace it with their rebel state administration.
And the word "penderhaka" was popularly and widely used during the Perak constitutional crisis. It was Umno's core subject then.
Today, here comes another attempted coup d'etat, this time not a political one, but the one happened in the Kelantan royal household. No one knows of what and why did it happened in the first place.
Where is Umno then? Hiding in the deep jungles of the Kelantan forest reserve. Not even a word from them at all. The state Umno leaders did not even come out in defense of the Sultan when the royal household is in crisis.
The Umno leaders are well-known experts in labelling people as "penderhakas" or traitors. So, why are they not naming any "penderhakas" or traitors this time?
Well, we know the answers. They are two main factions in the Kelantan Umno and both factions are believed to be taking sides in the palace rivalries as well.
We applaud the move undertook by the PAS state government in not taking any sides by maintaining their neutrality during the crisis.
Wan Hashim, who was appointed as private secretary to Sultan Ismail Petra last week, was seen being brought into the state police headquarters.
Meanwhile, the Kelantan palace crisis deepened with a new royal panel chief being named to replace the Sultan's choice of a regent while his private secretary remains in police custody.
Tengku Abdul Halim Alhaj Sultan Ibrahim has been named to chair the State Succession Council (MPN) which decides on the Kelantan monarchy, replacing Tengku Abdul Aziz Hamzah whom the Sultan had appointed as Regent.
MPN secretary Datuk Mohd Aiseri Alias had said Tengku Abdul Aziz's appointment was illegal and the Ruler’s son, Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra Sultan Ismail Petra is still the Regent.
During the coup d'etat in Perak in the early of last year, Umno was quick to point out and identify who were the "penderhakas" and quickly move in the charge them for various accounts of accusations which had never even exist in the first place.
What really happened in Perak was clearly a constitutional crisis. Umno wanted to make a big fuss on it to create a worst picture to further discredit the already toppled elected Perak state government and to replace it with their rebel state administration.
And the word "penderhaka" was popularly and widely used during the Perak constitutional crisis. It was Umno's core subject then.
Today, here comes another attempted coup d'etat, this time not a political one, but the one happened in the Kelantan royal household. No one knows of what and why did it happened in the first place.
Where is Umno then? Hiding in the deep jungles of the Kelantan forest reserve. Not even a word from them at all. The state Umno leaders did not even come out in defense of the Sultan when the royal household is in crisis.
The Umno leaders are well-known experts in labelling people as "penderhakas" or traitors. So, why are they not naming any "penderhakas" or traitors this time?
Well, we know the answers. They are two main factions in the Kelantan Umno and both factions are believed to be taking sides in the palace rivalries as well.
We applaud the move undertook by the PAS state government in not taking any sides by maintaining their neutrality during the crisis.
