{"id":2927,"date":"2020-03-10T23:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2020-03-10T23:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T15:24:38","slug":"dap-terminates-defectors-membership-warns-others-against-defecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2927","title":{"rendered":"DAP terminates defectors membership; warns others against defecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 &#8211; The Democratic Action Party Disciplinary Committee has today terminated the membership of Norhizam Bin Hassan Baktee (ADUN Pangkalan Batu, Melaka) as well as two others defectors from the party.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement today, the Disciplinary Committee Chairman Chong Chieng Jen announced the membership termination or Norhizam for crossing over from DAP to Perikatan Nasional.<\/p>\n<p>Two Perak ADUNs who have defected, namely Yong Choo Kiong (Tronoh) and Sivasubramaniam A\/L Athi Narayanan (Buntong) had both publicly announced quitting the party, and the Disciplinary Committee has also decided to terminate their membership.<\/p>\n<p>Chong advised all party members to disassociate themselves from these 3 defectors and that no member shall accept any official position offered by the Perikatan Nasional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Disciplinary Committee will take the sternest action against whoever that defects because nothing is more treacherous and worse than a betrayal of the people&#8217;s mandate.&#8221; said Chong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>NMT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 &#8211; The Democratic Action Party Disciplinary Committee has today terminated the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6969,1697,6970,6972,6971],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-chong-chieng-jen","tag-dap","tag-norhizam-baktee","tag-sivasubramaniam-athi-narayanan","tag-yong-choo-kiong"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges.png",1132,563,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges-300x149.png",300,149,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges-768x382.png",640,318,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges-1024x509.png",640,318,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges.png",1132,563,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges.png",1132,563,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges.png",1132,563,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges.png",1024,509,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-stooges.png",720,358,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}