KUALA LUMPUR: Embattled pro-opposition activist Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan is employing 'hit-and-run politics' to escape the burden of proof following the latest Sarawak Report controversy.
Deputy Barisan Nasional Youth chief Senator Khairul Azwan Harun claimed Ambiga had for instance, used news portals as channels to promote unsubstantiated news without furnishing her suggestions or claims.
"Ambiga has performed the perfect political hit and run. In her line of work, she can use a news portal to suggest that a Malaysian politician was soliciting bribes.
"With no intent of coming forward with her proof, it's clear that she intends to lie to the rakyat," Azwan said in a statement.
He also suggested Ambiga was hypocritical in her campaign for transparent and clean politics, which was used a ruse to champion her political allies instead.
"While she preaches for transparency and cleanliness in politics, she herself cannot come clean on what she told Sarawak Report.
"It is now clearer than ever before that her profile with Bersih was just a mask of Ambiga's truest intent that has always been to get her political friends into power, not ensure cleanliness in Malaysian politics."
Last Monday, an article published by The Malaysian Insight stated that Clare Rewcastle-Brown had made claims in a court filing on Oct 11, that she spoke to Ambiga in July last year about Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, 1Malaysia Development Bhd, and Pas.
Rewcastle-Brown claimed she was told that Pas leaders had received about RM90 million from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
Her defence was filed against a defamation suit by Pas president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang against her. The suit was filed at the Queen's Justice Division High Court in London, United Kingdom on April 21 this year.
Ambiga in response said she could not comment on the matter as the case is being deliberated in the United Kingdom's courts.
She also claimed Pas leaders were seeking to conduct a mini trial against her in Malaysia, other than she had also been a victim of targeted acts of intimidation and harassment for the past few days, receiving barrage of attacks from ministers, party members and others aligned to Hadi.