UMNO to takeover Kedah?

Let's take a breather from a MAS-Air Middle East issue for a weekend.

If someone were to say Kedah can be takenover three months ago, he or she would have been laughed off as a political beginner with no believe of a ground.

This is generally so with a UMNO warlord problems in Kedah so endemic.

There is Det Khalid in a single corner, Bashah in another, as well as many others in their little turfs as well as kingdoms all over a state. Even a likes of aged Dato Bakaq of Langkawi still has dreams of contesting in a subsequent ubiquitous election.

"Mampuih!", as any Kedahan in their graphic accent would have reacted.

In a final Pergong, bet no a single knows which Pergong is additionally PAU or Perhimpunan Agung UMNO, I met up my aged propagandize buddy, brother Noradzman Baharuddin, who is NST Alor Star Bureau Chief. We chatted for hours to locate up upon family, my new Hajj as well as politics.

That is how tighten you have been in residential schools. We could have left propagandize some-more than 35 years ago though you never remove sight of any alternative as well as a camareder! ie is as clever as ever.

He told me it is possibly for UMNO to retake Kedah.

Coming from Mantoi, as I would call him as well as he would call me by a little M nickname too, who has been covering a political kick up north for decades, he is worth a critical listen.

One, there have been many seats won over by PAS have been mislaid by UMNO marginally. UMNO mislaid Tanjung Dawai by 79 votes, Jeneri by 167 votes, Bukit Lada by 208 votes, Ayer Hangat by 506 votes, as well as Pantai Merdeka by 503 votes; all to PAS.

Kota Darulaman was mislaid to DAP by 804 votes. Yet, you almost during will giving! up Kota Seputeh which you won by 495 votes since Datuk Abu Hasan Sharif "absence" from State Assembly.

All a information is no large secret. It is during large available upon a Internet.

Two, there is a energy onslaught hot in a PAS cerek. There is an organised effort to move down Kedah Menteri Besar Dato Azizan Abdul Razak within a PAS circle of power.

It is believed to be orchestrated by Mahfudz Omar. Whether he is meddlesome to pursue a Menteri Besar post, it is unsure. However, it has strained relation in in between Azizan, who was not prolonged ago certified to IJN for heart problem, with comparison exco member, Fakhrolrazi.

The PAS's intensity second in line as well as crony of ours, a grassroot renouned Amiruddin is losing focus.

Nevertheless, a contingency have been Azizan will still run.

Three, commercial operation village have grown fed-up as well as open have been sleepy with unresolved open issues given a Azizan inundate debacle.

This Mantoi had written.

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Kedah commercial operation village fast losing confidence in state supervision

Noor Adzman Baharuddin
noadzman@nst.com.my

DISAPPOINTED LOT: Kedah commercial operation village may desert a antithesis in a subsequent ubiquitous election

Ah Fatt is a unequivocally frustrated businessman.

So is Lingam, an additional part of of a Kedah commercial operation community.

Equally stymied is Lingam's neighbour, Ahmad.

One of them peddles in hardware, an additional runs a various emporium whilst a other, operat! es an ea terie.

There have been no prizes for any a single who can guess who trades in what though a group have been seething with frustration over their preference to 'kaleh' (switch) to a antithesis in a final ubiquitous election.

Since Mar 8, 2008, a trio claimed a state supervision has offered little or no mercantile opportunities to a people.

"What seja! htera (well-being) is there when a state has failed to churn out new mercantile activities for a people, generally tiny businessmen similar to me?" Laments Lingam as he questioned a Pas-led state government's Kedah Sejahtera 2008 ubiquitous choosing manifesto.

Ahmad chided a state supervision for unwell to live up to a promises.

"We can't usually rely upon 'pasar malam's as well as a ocassional 'karnivals' to sell a wares," he said, still disorder from his bad call during a list box about 4 years ago.

Ah Fatt had counted upon expanding his commercial operation though a opportunities were far as well as couple of between.

"What do you expect, they could not even handle a ikan keli (catfish) project," he pronounced of a RM400,000 losses suffered by a state supervision when a organic Keli-K aquaculture in Sik failed after dual years of operation.

The traders' concerns generally reflect a frustration of a inner commercial operation community.

And yes, as commercial operation people, they lend towards to keep their frustration or disappointment, generally with a supervision of a day, to themselves - they usually expressed their resentment in a list box!

On this score, a single can't assistance though be reminded of a regard raised by former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin upon a possibility of Penang, Selangor as well as Kedah falling in to a hands of a antithesis after a final ubiquitous election!

Though tiny compared to a commercial operation communities in industrial states similar to Penang as well as Selangor, members of! a comme rcial operation fraternity in Kedah is a force to be reckoned with. They had played a pivotal role in sloping a scale in a opposition's foster in a final ubiquitous election.

The commercial operation community, generally between Chinese traders, were artificial by a country's past leadership.

Like Ah Fatt, Lingam as well as Ahmad, they took out their frustrations upon a Kedah Barisan Nasional by aband! oning it .

This equates to was a major equates to for a extrinsic losses suffered by BN during seven of a strongholds to a opposition.

In Tanjung Dawai, for instance, a BN mislaid by a mere 79 votes to Pas.

For a record, Pas won sixteen of a 36-seat State Legislative Assembly in 2008. BN won 14, PKR five as well as DAP one.

However, dual PKR assemblymen have given deserted their celebration to spin independents.

Some argued which a troubles for a Pas-led state government, generally with Chinese traders as well as a rest of their community, started when a authorities motionless to demolish a pig abattoir in Alor Star about a year after a new state supervision took over.

There was a large paint as well as cry over a authorities' doing of a case, generally when a replacement slaughterhouse was never unequivocally scrupulously identified.

Then came an additional boo-boo when a authorities, a couple of days before a fasting month this year, released a gauge ordering all karaoke outlets in a state to stop operations via Ramadan.

This unequivocally irked a karaoke operators, many of them Chinese.

The authorities finally relented. The outlets could stay open though contingency spin divided Muslim patrons.

Kedah BN leaders as well as members have been deluged with many opportunities.

They should step up to a plate. They should have justification whilst some, have way. This is needed to grasp holistic mutation for a party.

The state of disillusionment afflicting a commercial operation village should work in BN's foster! in a su bsequent ubiquitous election.

It did for a antithesis pact in Penang, Selangor as well as Kedah in 2008.

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But, as well as a large though it is, UMNO Kedah need to get organised as well as resolve their inner problems. We both ! agree. A nd you behind to block one.

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09 December 2011

'Whos' who should head for a exit

By Noor Adzman Baharuddin
noadzman@nst.com.my

All Umno members contingency be Khalid al-Walids as many as they can

Delegates supporting a minutes tabled during a Umno ubiquitous public recently. The take-home summary was 'Umno before self'. Pic by Aizuddin Saad

UMNO boss Datuk Seri Najib Razak has pronounced which a party, which leads a ruling Barisan Nasional, is ready to face a ubiquitous election.

The prime minister, who is additionally BN chairman, additionally pronounced during a Umno annual ubiquitous public not prolonged ago which some-more new faces would be fielded in a subsequent ubiquitous choosing -- both for Umno ! as well as a ruling coalition.

Closer to home, Kedah Umno could assistance have Najib's assign easier as he makes changes as well as decides upon a winnable possibilities for a state.

And shift Kedah Umno must. It contingency mind Najib's call for political transformation, generally after BN's gloomy performance in a 2008 ubiquitous election.

Without naming names, many Kedah Umno members as well as "orang Umno Kedah" know "who" should give way.

Equally important have been those "whos" should be shown a way.

The first organisation of! "whos" is fewer than a second "whos".

The first "whos" have been assemblymen who have been not utterly up a mark. And they know who they are.

The second organisation comprises "problematic" assemblymen, those held in authorised tangles as well as those allegedly concerned in abuse of power.

There is a third organisation of which a celebration care needs to be wary. They shove to be possibilities though have no or bad track records, together with a little during a local level.

This organisation includes those who behaved in a demeanour which was detrimental, together with sabotage, to Umno as well as BN in a final ubiquitous choosing as well as in a couple of cases, in prior ubiquitous elections, too.

This handful, a little of whom additionally behaved similar to warlords, might have transient disciplinary movement though "orang Umno Kedah" know who they have been as well as a brute couple of additionally know who they are.

The infancy of a people of Kedah done their preference in 2008. Kedah Umno members as well as their leaders can assistance them decide in a party's as well as BN's foster in a subsequent ubiquitous election.

Umno has done a lot for a members as well as it is time they repaid a party. To paraphrase an oft-quoted line, Umno members contingency ask not what a celebration can do for them though what they can as well as should do for a party.

They contingency mind Najib's Umno-before-self call.

They contingency be magnanimous as well as assistance a celebration boss rebuild as well as strengthen Umno. If there is an opportunity for them to assistance Umno! , then t his is a time.

BN mislaid Kedah in a final ubiquitous choosing not since a antithesis was clever though since Umno as well as a ruling bloc were weak.

Of a sum 36 state seats, Umno won 12 whilst Gerakan as well as MCA won a single each. Umno mislaid seven of a strongholds, together with Tanjung Dawai, where it mislaid to Pas by a mere 79 votes.
In Jeneri, Umno mislaid to Pas by 167 votes as well as Bukit Lada by 208 votes.

Local issues, generally involving grassroots leadership, shabby a outcome. Poor preference of possibilities as well as harm stood out as a culprits.

Najib contingency be organisation and, as a saying goes, contingency be seen to be firm. There contingency be no flip-flops as well as unrelenting movement contingency be taken (and be seen to be taken) against those who tricked a celebration in any way, figure or form.

This research by no equates to serves as a usually remedy to Kedah Umno as well as BN's ills.

Some changes with Umno incumbents as well as a introduction of new faces and, by extension, changes as well as new faces for Kedah BN, contingency additionally be considered.

Najib has come a prolonged approach upon repairs control for Umno as well as BN. Numerous policies as well as programmes have helped to recapture a hearts as well as minds of a people, together with those who had deserted a ruling bloc in 2008.

All a promises as well as sumpah bai'ah (oath of loyalty) done by Umno grassroots leaders during a Putra World Trade Centre final Saturday would mean nothing if they do not honour their word.

Najib had cited a sacrifices by Khalid al-Walid, a single of a many feared as well as successful Islamic generals, who willingly stepped down as armed forces commander in chief during a ask of caliph Umar.

A clever follower which Islam takes dominance over everything else, together with oneself, he soldiered on.

And Umno members contingency all try to be Khalid al-Walids as many as they can.

Incidentally, Khalid's successor, Abu Ubaidah, allocated him as head of a cavalry as well as as a troops adviser.

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Heard which Bashah is so pitiable during removing organised which he had an overnight assembly to prepare as well as submit Election Manifesto for a prolonged ! given su bsequent day deadline.

I am not bitching Bashah in sequence to foster Mukhriz. Perish which thought.

Mukhriz can't beKetua Perhubungan Negeri (yet). He frequency binds an elected post of any stress during a Division level.

Mukhriz has his problems, lots of problems. Starting with his rsther than distant personality.

He is still as well civic for a wakil rakyat representing a rural area. He goes around similar to a VIP as well as be done invited guests by his organisers. And, he falls short of assembly a not-easy-to-describe Kedahan care peculiarity called hemoih.

Now which he is no some-more a Pemuda leader, I am no some-more going to be respectful as well as in isolation to my crony though be brutally honest as well as open. I am neither upon his payroll nor underneath his instruction.

Mukhriz is in a large boys league, so stop hanging around boys. It is not enough to be nice to be a leader. He has to take assign as well as lead men. He can't rely upon volunteers alone though set up his armed forces of supporters as well as followers.

Be a Mahathir, not a Hasmah.

And be himself as well as no some-more contingent as son of Mahathir as well as Hasmah. Even Nurjazlan stoppped openning his debate with akirim salam from Tok Mat.

As for skeleton to place Mukhriz as State Assembly post to have approach for Kedah MB post, he should be careful. It could be a devise to send him behind to work during his essential element ocular factory as well as kill his political career.!

If he loses, he is finished. But if he wins, things will be alright. But with Kedah UMNO's present state of organisation, can UMNO Kedah win?

Bear in mind, if he wins though Kedah UMNO lose, he could be blamed for it. The perception is which he is in assign of a UMNO assign for Kedah.

So, behind to Mantoi or my friend, Encik Noradzman Baharuddin. He writes his c! olumn upon Friday NST upon Kedah issues, together with politics. It is prolonged overdue which he be given a column to write anyway.

So take note of my buddy.

I sure hope Mukhriz as well as his team do take note as well as rivet him. He can be a utilitarian source of information as well as contacts.

To get his cooperation, treat him with respect. Dia bukan budak hinguih, tau.

- Another Brick in a Wall

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