August 11, 2012
Tamrin Ghafar joins PAS to pursue Tun Ghafar's Vision
By Amin Iskandar
Assistant News Editor, The Malaysian Insider
Dato' Tamrin Ghafar, a son of former Deputy Prime Minister Tun Ghafar Baba, will contention his membership form to PAS tonight, sources said, creation him a second UMNO veteran to leave a statute Barisan Nasional's (BN) buttress in a month.
Tamrin's defection, entrance upon a heels of comparison Sabah UMNO personality Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin's resignation from his supreme legislature seat in a Malay party two weeks ago as well as pledging await to Pakartan Rakyat (PR), is seen as manoeuvre for a opposition in a run-up to a 13th general choosing due soon.
"Tamrin will palm over his membership form to PAS Deputy President, Mohamad Sabu. "Even before this, he has regularly been giving speeches with Abang Mat everywhere," a PAS official who asked not to be declared told The Malaysian Insider. He was referring to Mohamad, popularly well known as Mat Sabu.
Tamrin was Batu Berendam MP in Malacca for scarcely a decade, from 1986 to 1995. The subdivision has been renamed Bukit Katil.
His father, a late Tun Ghafar, had been an UMNO strongman since a days 
of a Malaysia's founding father as well as first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj. Ghafar had once been Malacca arch apportion in a early days of a country's independence.
But Tamrin, a second of Ghafar's eleven children, has b! een batt ing for a PR agreement in a final couple of years, alleging which UMNO has deviated from a strange onslaught underneath Prime Minister as well as Party President Datuk Seri Najib Razak's leadership.
"UMNO has run divided from strange fight to prioritise a people.Under Najib, UMNO no longer defends a people though has taken divided their rights," he had formerly said whilst upon a stump with PR leaders in Kuala Lumpur.
For his open criticism of UMNO, Tamrin was given a show-cause letter by a party's disciplinary board upon July 26. PAS has been actively courting as well as winning over multiform former pro-establishment total as well as tip local artistes popular with a Malay community in new days, in a bid to burnish a on-going Islamist certification forward of pass polls which contingency be called by subsequent April.
Malaysia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, had not long ago warned Najib against serve estranging members of a statute coalition, observant any defections could "result in BN losing a subsequent election."
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