MYPPP acting president Maglin D’Cruz and former president M. Kayveas, are vying for control of the party, holding separate meetings within days of each other. 

D’Cruz was named president in a meeting held at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.

Today, Kayveas will reassert his claim as party’s top leader at another meeting to be held at the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall.

Kavyeas is banking on a Registrar of Societies letter issued on May 18, which stated that he would remain MyPPP president pending a probe into party-related issues.

Maglin, on his part, claimed leadership of the party on the basis that 1,250 delegates had appointed him president during the party’s 64th annual general meeting on Friday.

At that meeting, members had unanimously accepted Kayveas’ sacking and voted that MyPPP remain with Barisan Nasional.

The meeting also saw former deputy federal minister Loga Bala Mohan appointed as senior vice-president and Dr Siva Kumar, as the party’s vice-president.

Maglin told reporters that RoS “verbally” informed him last week that it approved of Friday’s AGM and that “about 85%” of MyPPP’s supreme council members, elected from 2014, are with his faction.  

On May 20, Maglin announced that Kayveas was no longer a member of MyPPP since April 25.

He had instructed the party’s lawyers to take legal action against Kayveas for saying MyPPP had decided to leave Barisan, calling it “wrongful and illegal con­duct”. 

However, on April 30, Kayveas posted on his social media account that he was withdrawing his resignation letter and declared himself president again.

Kayveas told The Star yesterday that he remains party supremo: “The first rule they did not ob­serve is to call for a supreme council meeting to set up a disciplinary committee.”

“Under the party constitution, the meeting can only be called by the president.” – May 27, 2018.