Dr James Jemut Masing is claiming all five seats

Among the headlines of a local daily today, Masing, on behalf of PRS, is claiming all the two DUN seats and three Parliamentary seats held by five partyless former PBDS members of Tajem's camp. His rationale is that PRS is the successor of PBDS. A few questions for Masing, if PRS is indeed a successor of PBDS, then why all former members of PBDS have to apply to join PRS? Secondly, why constitution of PRS is so different from that of PBDS or why at every level of its executive committee there are CHINAMEN OR CHINAWOMEN dominating the party?I am not at all surprised that Masing is claiming all the five seats but his reasoning. I was a former PBDS member and was with the party through thick and thin until its second deregistration. I know too well the inside out and outside in of the party's litany of back-stabbing and its protracted saga. But to say that PRS is a successor of PBDS is fooling no one but himself. For that reason I decline to join PRS. On the other hand I am not interested to join MDC in which the five have a hand in its formation. The demise of PBDS among others was the result of stubborn and pigheaded attitude of Tajem and the five above and their influential comrades. Masing and Sng Chee Hua, having been sidelined, took every opportunity to stay in politics by engaging in what is often said as "self-preservation", In fact Dr Ong Lak Sai, during one of the meetings (after the party's death was put on hold but before its permanent death) at Sebiro's conference room did label the technique as "self-presevation", to which Masing politely objected and went on with lengthy justification.Now that PBDS is permanently dead and PRS is around waiting for former PBDS members to join and MDC is awaiting registration, the choice is ours, which party to join. All I hope is that the Dayak should stop quarelling over trivialities that would lead to major adversities. Whatever label is stamped on PRS, it remains as a fact that it is part and parcel of Barisan Nasional. We are all aware that as long a party is a BN member, it's the BN that matters. Look at S. Sothianathan of MIC, what meted out on him was not from MIC but the PM himself. PBDS or PRS in fact does not speak about Dayak alone but that of BN in general. As such, why DAyak must quarrel in the name of Dayak when the agenda of so-called DAyak based party is not about DAyak alone but MAlaysians?It is better for the Dayak to concerntrate on something that can provide improvement to Dayak economic and social well being -- doing business or participating in social organisations, for instance. Because at the end of the day two things that matters -- food to eat, house to live in, clothes to wear and heaven or hell. Politics may not guarantee all these.Till then, regards.CM