KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 — PKR MP R. Sivarasa has denied last night sending a press statement announcing a police report against the Sultan of Selangor for censuring his freedom of speech.
The Subang MP said he is considering legal action towards those who circulated the hoax message.
“They who fabricated this false statement was malicious and do not have the real facts,” Sivarasa said in a statement.
“They did not know that Peter Chong has stopped being my personal assistant on November 2015, and I am also not a PKR vice-president,” he said, referring to the details in the hoax message.
In the false message, Sivarasa was accused of saying that the Sultan had infringed on Article 8 of the Federal Constitution that governs equality of each citizen.
Yesterday, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah was reported by Malaysiakini to have specifically mentioned the PKR lawmaker when criticising politicians for giving speeches at state mosques despite the ruler’s decree forbidding such acts.
The MP has yet to respond to the Sultan’s remark.
Sivarasa was shown speaking at the mosque in Kampung Melayu Subang on May 24.
The Sultan subsequently directed Selangor religious authorities to take action against the mosque for defying his decree.
Sivarasa later denied delivering a political speech in the mosque, and said he spoke briefly when invited to do so by the organisers of the event.
