Pakatan not all that bad

In light of the great governance used by Pakatan, is there any reason for the rakyat to leave their certitude in the opposition.

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It is funny how the nation's argumentative former budding apportion Dr Mahathir Mohamad is going about canvassing support for Barisan Nasional, by propelling the rakyat to equivocate being convinced by secular sentiments as well as not be fooled by the antithesis agreement Pakatan Rakyat.

For Mahathir's benefit, if the trip "down memory lane" is made, the rakyat will cringe during how Umno, the widespread party of BN played the secular card, intimidating as well as threatening the non-Malays.

Does Mahathir not recollect the antics of Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein who waved the Malay digger or keris during the Umno general assembly, his approach of notice the non-Malays to never question the emanate of Malay rights as well as privileges envy guarded by Article 153 of the Federal Constitution.

Now, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has suggested that current budding apportion Najib Tun Razak during his Umno Youth arch in 1987 had landed in trouble with premier Mahathir for stoking secular tension.

Why, Mahathir himself showed little respect towards the non-Malays when he sarcastically asked them to be grateful to the Malays for being since citizenship as well as reside in this country.

The people of this country will never forget the attack upon the Christian as well as Sikh places of worship. Nor have they forgotten the pig conduct incidents that signalled that secular harmony in Malaysia has dipped to dangerous level.

"The people of Malaysia contingency realise this as well as se! lect the ir governments wisely. They contingency not concede secular sentiments to clouded cover great useful usual sense," Mahathir blogged.

But until as well as unless Umno stops regulating the secular "weapon" to interest the insist as the rightful successor to this country, the rakyat contingency have use of usual clarity as well as consider very, really tough in deciding that supervision can most appropriate discharge this nation of twenty-eight million people.

BN riddled with fiascos
In 1994, the then Malacca arch apportion Abdul Rahim Thamby was charged with statutory rape of the minor. In 2008, former cupboard minister, Jamaluddin Jarjis who additionally served as Malaysia's envoy to America, was purported to have molested the club worker of the five-star hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

Then, there was allegation that the current apportion had in 2007 raped his Indonesian made during home worker.

The rakyat additionally recollect how the benefaction MCA chief, Dr Chua Soi Lek in 2008 finished "news" after DVD recordings of him having sex with the most younger lady proposed making their rounds, forcing Chua to give way his post as Health Minister.

Now, the feverishness is upon another apportion who the antithesis insist paid the renouned local actress up to RM1.5 million in four months.

The minister's driver who give up operative for the apportion due to the vigour involved said the apportion would meet the actress each week in hotels around Kuala Lumpur, profitable her between RM100,000 as well as RM200,000 during each meeting.

Can the apportion insist to the rakyat where did he obtain the income that he had been lavishing upon the actress for the past three years?

In the face of the long-standing desire displayed by these BN leaders, does it have any clarity for the rakyat to go upon lending support to such corrupt as well as philandering politicians?

Pakatan n! ot all t hat bad
Mahathir credits the BN partnership with the growth as well as fortitude enjoyed by Malaysia as well as blamed the poor leadership peculiarity of the fifth premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as the reason why BN mislaid miserably in the 12th general choosing in 2008. And Mahathir is certain the Pakatan fan can never do what BN has finished for the people.

In box Mahathir feigns ignorance, clarity as well as burden have never been the hallmark of the BN administration.

During Mahathir's autocractic rule, the Official Secrets Act was dissipated to censor matters as well as repudiate the rakyat the right to be informed as well as this enabled corruption to develop as it was kept dark from open scrutiny.

On the contrary, the Pakatan-controlled states in Selangor as well as Penang have put in place the Freedom of Information Act in sequence to be transparent as well as accountable.

And it is additionally no tip that during Mahathir's 22-long years as PM, many crony politicians thick with unthinkable resources as well as inaugurated representatives as well as cupboard ministers spoken their assets usually to Mahathir for obvious reasons.

But this is not the box with the Pakatan-led states of Selangor as well as Penang, both that require their exco members to have open their asset declaration.

In light of the great governance used by Pakatan, is there any reason for the rakyat to leave their certitude in the opposition.

Twenty-two years were long sufficient for Mahathir to do all the repairs he could. In the four years that the Pakatan agreement has performed, it has shown intensity as well as this has since the! rakyat hope, something that BN never worried doing.

Jeswan Kaur is the freelance bard as well as the FMT columnist.

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