Lajim's Harapan Rakyat is approved
Published on: Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Putra Jaya: The Registrar of Societies has approved the registration of Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah which is to be helmed by Lajim Ukin, the former Sabah PKR Liaison chairman.Lajim said, Harapan Rakyat was ready to cooperate with any political party with similar policies.The application for registration was submitted to the RoS on Sept 14 by the party's pro-tem chairman Patrick Sadom, he said.
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He said 10 divisional chairmen and 80 per cent of branch chairmen as well as several other leaders who left Sabah PKR recently had pledged to join the new party. The party hoped to register 2,600 members in a month, he added.Lajim, who joined PKR in 2012 and quit recently, was once an Umno Supreme Council member and served as the federal deputy minister of housing and local government.On why the party did not choose to join former Umno vice-president Shafie Apdal's Parti Warisan Sabah, he said it is the people's wish that they set up their own party.He also denied suggestions that the move will further divide the people of Sabah.
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"This is what the Sabah people wanted. This is not what the leaders want. When we went down to the ground, this was the feedback that we received," he said.Lajim said it is time that Sabah people stop depending on peninsula-based parties. "When we have our own house, we do not have to borrow other people's keys and ask for their permission to renovate our house.
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