KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 -- Requests by lawmakers for their motions to be debated before commencing with the daily agenda was nonchalantly ignored by Deputy Speaker Datuk Mohd Rashid Hasnon during this morning's sitting.

Puchong MP Gobind Singh and Sepang MP Mohamed Hanipa Maidin both stood up to address the Dewan Rakyat, informing Mohd Rashid of the motions that they had filed which sought for de facto law minister Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan to be referred to the Parliamentary Privileges Committee.

The motion, said Mohamed Hanipa to the Lower House, was related to the Kota Baru MP's revelation on Monday that the government had revoked the Emergency Ordinances (EO) drafted and enforced during the current period of Emergency.

"We ask for...