Former PKR turncoat returns to champion Anwar in PD

Kamles Kumar Kamles Kumar Updated 7 years ago · Published on 3 Oct 2018 8:33AM · 10 Comments

A former PKR leader who left for Umno and has now joined Bersatu and is campaigning for Pakatan candidate for the Port Dickson by-election Anwar Ibrahim. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Kamal Ariffin, October 3, 2018.

RUSLAN Kasim, a former PKR leader who later joined Umno, has left the former ruling party to campaign for Anwar Ibrahim in the Port Dickson by-election.

Ruslan, who was an early Reformasi leader and formerly PKR information chief, was branded a turncoat when he joined Umno in 2004. He resigned from the party in June, a month after the Barisan Nasional lost power in the May 9 general election.

He said he was “deceived” by Umno, and had recently sought forgiveness from Anwar.

“Politics is dynamic. I looked at the new government and I felt I had a role to play,” Ruslan told The Malaysian Insight.

“I have apologised to Anwar profusely on all those things I said and have done,” he said at a ceramah in Teluk Kemang last night.

Ruslan said the PKR president told him that all was forgiven and wanted him to join Pakatan Harapan.

“He said let bygones be bygones.”

Ruslan left Umno in June this year to join the Bersatu chapter in Jempol, Negeri Sembilan.

He said he will be campaigning with Anwar in Port Dickson until the by-election day on October 13. – October 3, 2018.

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Comments

  • This guy is mental.

    Posted 7 years ago by [email protected] · Reply

  • Stray Dogs every where.

    Posted 7 years ago by Danial Abdullah · Reply

  • Anwar is too fast to accept traitors and betrayers. Anwar, hope you have learned from these years!

    Posted 7 years ago by SS Loh · Reply

  • Dear Editor,
    You may like to check - wasnt this chap one of those that allegedly received money from the 1MDB embezzlement case ? Thanks

    Posted 7 years ago by Mohammad Badry · Reply

  • I call him "cheap opportunist".

    Posted 7 years ago by Awang Bilis · Reply

  • alot of frogs are hopping this rainy season!!!
    the shameless, thick skinned, muka xmalu kind..

    Posted 7 years ago by The Lone Ranger ... · Reply

  • NO, Ruslan Kassim. You have NO role to play in the new government. Shame on you.

    Posted 7 years ago by Ang Peng Wong · Reply

  • Welcome to spoil more votes!

    Posted 7 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • If the new Malaysia can accept such a scumbag, we are heading back to old Malaysia. Ruslan shud just retire and disappear, and tanam jagung, for his actions are abhorrent and poisonous.

    Posted 7 years ago by Laza Jubu · Reply

  • a guy who licks where the power is

    Posted 7 years ago by Teruna Kelana · Reply