DAP has got aging leaders in the persons of Karpal Singh as the Chairman and Lim Kit Siang, the advisor. Has DAP got the succession plans for them? Lim Kit Siang, 70, may be the advisor but everyone knows that he is calling the shots. Before he tells other people to retire, he should have the decency to do it too.
What about Nik Aziz Nik Mat, he is 80 and still serving as the Menteri Besar of Kelantan. Why is DAP very silent about his succession plan?
Obviously, both Lim and Karpal Singh have no business to tell Sarawak leaders to retire when they should have done so. What credibility have DAP and PKR got to talk about nepotism and abuse of power? For example, Lim Kit Siang and Karpal Singh have even engineered to have their sons to move up the party hierarchy.
As Anwar Ibrahim, cannot become the leader of PKR, he moves his wife to become the President and daughter, a Vice President.
Obviously, DAP is insulting the intelligence of the local people, the Bumiputras in particular, about its own state’s of affairs by demonizing the Chief Minister, Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is also the Chairman of the State Barisan Nasional and President of PBB.
Generally, DAP is very narrow in outlook and chauvinistic in attitude. The facts that DAP are only contesting in Chinese majority constituencies in the current elections crystallizes the allegation that it is a communalistic party. The Chinese voters, must appreciate that DAP has no place in Sarawak in order to preserve their harmonious relationship with other ethnic groups.
As the President of MCA, Datuk Seri Chua Soi Lek correctly says the current State Election is not just about Pehin Sri Abdul Taib but about the whole of Sarawak.
Besides, DAP will have no power to deny Pehin Sri Abdul Taib from continuing as the Chief Minister after the elections even if it succeeds in taking all the Chinese majority constituencies from SUPP. Its only achievement is to destroy SUPP. At the end of the day, DAP is still a peninsula-based party that will appear once in three to five years.
It is very simple to be a DAP leader. For example, all Lim Guan Eng has been doing with his fiery speeches is to raise the expectation of the Chinese without delivering it.
Lim Guan Eng knows that DAP will never come to power in Sarawak and he is actually leading Chinese voters up the garden path. But at the end of the day, he will say as DAP is not in power, SUPP must do it.
The Chinese voters must also realise that, after the election, Lim Guan Eng and his father and their gangs will pack their bags and leave for Peninsula. They will leave local supporters to pick up from the mess they leave behind. DAP previous members of the State assemblymen were mediocre to say the least. They attended the sittings of the August House merely to disrupt the proceedings. They shouted to be heard and made baseless allegations that they had turned the august house into a Kopitiam.
Is DAP serious about politics in Sarawak, about articulating the interests of urban people, mainly Chinese in Dewan Udangan Negeri. If so the party should make serious efforts to change their own attitude and outlook towards making serious representations of interests of the Chinese community to the government.
The prevailing view is that DAP is only playing politics by increasing numbers of its members in the State legislative assembly, regardless of their quality to shout or say anything without knowing the decorum of the august house. With the party’s candidates, those in Padungan and Batu Kawa in particular, who are very ignorant of the local situation and environment the party will not have good representatives in the Assembly.
The Chinese voters must remind themselves that it will be insufficient for them to have representatives to shout and make complains about problems facing the community once in a while. The community needs credible leaders, who can work together and discuss common problems with those of other communities in the government. It is the only way to find solutions that must be fair and acceptable to other communities to their problems.
Those at the middle level, mainly young people, do not even think about the welfare and interests of other communities. Most of them are carried away by the feelings of hatred, anger and frustration with others obviously in a very poisonous atmosphere being imported from Peninsular Malaysia.
DAP, which is only fighting for interests of the Chinese community at the expense of those of others, is by itself an aging party with archaic principle and ideology. The party needs Change the most. Lim Guan Eng and others must take a hard look at themselves first and endeavor to get their facts right before opening their mouths in Sarawak.
Sarawak is not Pulau Pinang, which has been well developed by Gerakan in Barisan Nasional and nor can Pulau Pinang equate itself to Sarawak, which is almost the same size as Peninsula Malaysia; it is a third of the total size of the country.
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Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud is an energetic and hardworking leader |
Understandably, the new State government, after the current state elections, will come up with a White Paper on how to preserve Sarawak’s harmonious political atmosphere and the stability based on the essential understanding and interactions between the various racial and religious groups in the State and country.
There have been a lot of reports flying around that PKR, DAP and PAS are importing mobsters to rig the election results. They are moving around to instigate the people to go against Barisan Nasional.
Generally, the opposition has nothing to do except to complain that what ever development projects being carried by the government for the people are wrong or insufficient; nothing is right to them. They tend to forget that no government, worse those in Pulau Pinang, Selangor and Kelantan, can do all projects at the same time. Some of them would come like heroes and claim to know everything. But the fact remain that they are very ignorant of how the government machinery work; the processes and procedures that entail its roles and functions.
Members of the opposition talk without proper direction, they just talk anything as they like regardless of whether they are relevant to the people and the state or not. Obviously, they are very ignorant of their roles as elected representatives of the people. They even allege that a large sum of the government’s money is being unaccounted for without producing proof of their allegations.
However, the people have been wise enough to know that if hundreds of million of the government’s money has been misappropriated, no projects can be implemented; even a single road cannot be constructed.
Admittedly, the government being led by human beings may have its weaknesses. But overall, what it has done well should far outweigh the weaknesses. For example, Lim Guan Eng and his gang from Peninsula are ignorant of the fact that the state’s per capita income has gone up by seven times. It will increase by three times more with the implementation of SCORE towards the year 2020. The State has the potential to become the richest state, well ahead of Pulau Penang, Selangor and Kelantan towards the year 2030.
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