FORMER Sarawak DAP lawmaker Voon Lee Shan, who is now president of the pro-independence Parti Bumi Kenyalang (PBK), is unfazed by DAP’s threat to drag him before its disciplinary board over his defection.

Voon, who is also former Batu Lintang state assemblyman, insisted he was dismissed by DAP on the eve of nominations for the 2011 state election.

“(So) what to sack when I was already sacked?” he told The Malaysian Insight when asked to comment on DAP state organising secretary Violet Yong’s comments this morning that Voon was still a life member of the party and a show-cause letter would be issued to him soon.

Voon then accused the party of cherry-picking in their actions.

He asked why the party did not take action against one current and one former PKR state lawmaker who had similarly quit the party to join the then fledgling PKR in the past.

He was referring to current Batu Lintang assemblyman See Chee How and PKR’s first ever assemblyman, Dominique Ng.

In a press conference earlier today, Yong said Voon’s claim that he was sacked was a lie.

“From our party records, Voon belongs to the Batu Lintang DAP branch and the last AGM (annual general meeting) held (by the branch) was in 2012.

“In their branch working committee form, he was nominated as the chairman for that branch.

“So, if his claim is true that he was sacked in 2011, then why in 2012… was he still holding the (branch) AGM and nominated as chairman?” Yong, who is also Pending assemblyman, said.

“He was nominated as the branch chairman in 2012 and this was filed with the RoS (Registry of Societies).”

Yong said there was also no record of Voon being sacked.

“There was no sacking by the party and according to the 2019 party membership branch record, he is a life member.”

Yong said Voon joined the party on August 1, 1999.

Ng confirmed he left DAP “a long time ago” to join PKR.

The former Padungan PKR assemblyman said he could not recall if he had officially resigned when he joined PKR but what he could recall was that DAP never attempted to haul him up before its disciplinary committee then.

“I knew that once I joined another party, that would be taken as having resigned from DAP,” he told The Malaysian Insight.

Ng said his defection, however, triggered a public feud between him and DAP leaders, culminating in current state DAP and Pakatan Harapan chief Chong Chieng Jen’s father, Chong Siew Chiang, suing him (Ng) for alleged defamation.

The senior Chong was a founding member of Sarawak DAP in the late 1970s.

Voon and Ng were effectively dropped by their respective parties when DAP and PKR swapped the Batu Lintang and Padungan seats prior to the 2011 Sarawak state election. – June 11, 2019.