Ambiga seeks RCI into citizenship-for-votes claims


By Melissa Chi
November 12, 2011

The prominent lawyer as well as civil rights romantic called a allegations "the top fraud to this country" if true. record pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov twelve Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan today pushed for a investiture of a stately panel to examine claims a ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) has been fast-tracking citizenship applications for foreigners in lapse for their votes.

The prominent lawyer as well as civil rights romantic noted a sovereign government has been tormented by such claims not long ago as well as which a allegations persist notwithstanding repeated denials by a officials.

"I'm contemptible but to me that's a top fraud to this country, which we have been induction foreigners as citizens for a purposes of voting," a prominent civil rights romantic told a bipartisan parliamentary name cabinet (PSC) upon electoral reform.

"If which is a box as well as if there is evidence, afterwards we contingency have a Royal Commission to examine this," she due to a nine-man panel upon Day Two of a open hearing.

A section of a Bangladesh Prime Minister's Office had allegedly posted upon a central website last September 17 which a citizens who have been working in Malaysia had been asked to vote for a ruling BN bloc in exchange for fast-tracked citizenship requests.

The allegation triggered a open conflict call an Opposition MP to indecisive a environment up of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into a issue.

Both Putrajaya as well as Dhaka a latter through a High Commission here have denied a claims.

The argumentative webpage has since disappeared from a Bangladesh NGO Affairs' Bureau's central website.

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