April 23, 2012
Incumbent Menteri Besar Kedah is a Reactionary Rube as well as a Political Albatross
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT Kedah Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak's decrease from competent Islamic fury part of to conservative rube has been a sad business.
The Kedah State Assembly's new thoroughfare of an legislative addition to an dramatization whose outcome is to render comprehensive power to a Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee detracts from a Sultan's in front of as head of a sacrament in a state.
Besides, a legislative addition confers autarky standing upon a State Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee, something which would be during odds with a philosophy of governance espoused by Pakatan Rakyat.
The measure has drawn a Police report by a Tunku Laksamana Kedah, Tunku Mansor Tunku Kassim, a part of of a Royal Council. The move is firm to trigger a predicament because a Sultan of Kedah is worshiped by his subjects. This debate is a final thing PAS would want.
With a ubiquitous choosing fast approaching, a embarrassing mistake place Azizan's stewardship of state behind where it has been for some years now in a glare of unwelcome publicity.
PAS must now bewail they did not compel Azizan to retire when heart problems briefly laid him low final year; it was pronounced a tip care pushed for him to renounce though backed off when he resisted their importuning.
The care had been aware of flourishing confusion with a MB, not only felt by a DAP as well as PKR complement of a Pakatan Rakyat state supervision though additionally by Kedah PAS leaders.
Perhaps a niceties which attend intra-party wrangles in an Islamic party prevented a forceful! present ation to a ailing Azizan which he should step in reserve simply because he was not effective.
The Kelantan Lesson
Anwar Ibrahim was in a some-more enviable incident when he was faced with a same problem in Penang in 2009 when his pick for a deputy chief minister's role incited out to be a niggling embarrassment.
However, Fairuz Khairuddin was a nobody plucked from obscurity for a post; Anwar had an easier time easing him out a door. By contrast, Azizan is a comparison part of of a PAS hierarchy. Telling him to go because he was simply not good was never going to be easy.
The MB was austere in pressing his claims for retention as well as a tip leadership, with an eye to averting internecine troubles which could be triggered by an Azizan-led revolt motionless to relent as well as wait things out.
After all, a ubiquitous choosing was fast approaching; mouth-watering internecine troubles have been not a way to hope for for it.
PAS have been aware of a proviso of a story of their administration department in their stronghold of Kelantan.
There, in 1977, a schism in PAS led by a incumbent Menteri Besar Mohamed Nasir enabled Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to plot a ouster of PAS from a reins of supervision as well as to establish an UMNO ascendancy which lasted until 1990 when current MB Nik Aziz Nik Mat reasserted a PAS domination.
With which vicious as well as lesson-teaching proviso of their story in Kelantan as background, a tip care of PAS treaded cautiously when coming a festering care issues in Kedah.
Also, a fact which a ubiquitous choosing was in a offing compelled them to tiptoe. Unfortunately, long-germinating care issues do not obey a discretion demanded by choosing year schedules.
These can emanate as well as turn during ungainly moments, leaving proponents of timely, though withheld, movement regretting their procrastination.
PAS will need to punch a bullet
Earlier this year, dual PAS members of a Kedah State Executive Council announced they would decrease reappointment to a legislature (appointments in Kedah have been done upon an annual basis).
That was a cue a displeasure with Azizan had arrived during a vicious mass. DAP as well as PKR leaders muttering against a clumsy Azizan is a single thing: a grumbles can be dismissed as a function of people who do not understand a Islamic character of administration.
However, a frustrations of PAS State Exco members against a MB, as demonstrated in dual compatriots' refusal to be reappointed to a Exco, is a some-more critical matter.
But if a tip care of PAS found itself in a bind final year when they attempted to force Azizan's departure, using his seizure as pretext, they were in greater difficulty this time round, what with a ubiquitous choosing approaching as well as a chances of BN convalescent a state as well as PAS retaining it pronounced to be uniformly poised.
Azizan again won out in a competition of wills between him as well as a tip care in PAS which decamped to Alor Star to work out a compromise. If a single felt which a predicament caused by dual PAS State Exco members declining reappointment should have prompted Azizan to hereafter ensue with caution, he has now referred to it had a opposite effect.
Passage of a legislative addition to a dramatization creation a State Mufti as well as Fatwa Committee an absolutist body is something which is simply not done.
PAS would have to punch a bullet as well as absolved their Kedah care of someone who is plainly an albatross. If there is a silver lining in this cloud, it is which there is no mystique which clings to an ulama when it comes to a question of suitability for political leadership.
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