May 11, 2012
www.thestar.com.my
On Tunku Aziz: In as well as Out with a Bang
By Joceline Tan
joceline@thestar.com.my
Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim's fall from grace with a DAP care has been quick as well as serious as well as most disbelief which he can go upon in DAP after what has happened.
THERE were eight senators during a farewell luncheon hosted by a Dewan Negara yet a media was usually meddlesome in one of them, namely, Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim.
The DAP Vice-Chairman has attracted as most media glare during a tighten of his senatorship as he did when he began his term.
Tunku Aziz, who speaks unequivocally proper English, would substantially not approve of jargon lingo, yet he came in with a crash as well as now he is withdrawal with a bang. But there is a disproportion in a two bangs though. The fallout from a first crash was upon a Barisan Nasional yet a fallout from a second crash has landed precisely upon a DAP.
It is open knowledge by now which Tunku Aziz's senatorship was terminated since he did not toe a celebration line upon a BERSIH demonstration as well as which does not verbalise well of a DAP, generally since which a "D" stands for "democratic".
Several DAP leaders voiced surprise during a move, yet nothing of them wish to be quoted since they hold which Lim Guan Eng is a one during a back of a decision as well as they have been fearful to cross swords with their absolute secretary-general.
"I disagree with what Tunku Aziz pronounced about BERSIH yet to cancel his tenure since of which is as well drastic. It sends a summary which DAP is not open to alternative views," pronounced one DAP assemblyman.
Another DAP f! igure sa id: "The celebration leaders substantially feel he is a guilt yet politically speaking, it would have been better to keep him upon board."
Tunku Aziz had continued to verbalise his thoughts upon a BERSIH protests nonetheless Guan Eng had
publicly cautioned him to hold his tongue. The elderly gentleman supports BERSIH's aims of purify as well as satisfactory elections yet he had criticised a organisers' persistence to march to Dataran Merdeka instead of demonstrating in a stadium.
According to Tunku Aziz, he had been informed about a month ago which his tenure would be renewed. Guan Eng had even longed for to announce it during a last celebration comparison manager executive cabinet assembly yet was told which a assignment is from Penang as well as he should put it before a Penang DAP committee. But shortly after, Tunku Aziz non-stop his mouth upon a protests as well as a rest is history.
"Someone very comparison as well as critical in a party, we won't contend who, came to my house. He told me my senatorship was up for renewal yet which there was a little difficulty in perspective of what we had pronounced about BERSIH. He pronounced a view was not usually in a DAP yet inside of a Pakatan Rakyat as well as it would be formidable to put up my name again. At which point, we pronounced which we did not wish to be a means of disharmony, which if putting up my name will means problems, please do not do it," pronounced Tunku Aziz.
Tunku Aziz could review between a lines. He knew his predestine was sealed as well as he had no intention of sticking on. "It's a great payoff to be a senator yet it is not something to be exchanged for one's conscience, honour as well as integrity. we always suspicion which as a democratic party, they would concede for dissent. we have review Kit Siang's book Right to ! Dissent< /em>. It's an critical book which suggests which gainsay is something they embrace as partial of their domestic philosophy yet obviously which is not what they practise," he added.
The subject which most have been asking is either it was necessary for a DAP to action so drastically opposite Tunku Aziz over what was an individual opinion. He had been welcomed in to a celebration as a "towering Malaysian" as well as his certification have been simply impeccable he is related to a Kedah royalty, he has served in a United Nations as well as a Commonwealth Secretariat as well as he was, of course, a first president of Transparency International Malaysian Chapter.
He brought with him forlorn status as well as credibility. And as a above DAP representative put it, a celebration will never catch an additional Malay like him again. The action opposite him not usually suggests which a celebration cannot hoop dissenting views yet which it is usually meddlesome in token Malay leaders people who have been mostly yes-men as well as do not ask as well most questions. Or what a little call Malay apologists.
Party insiders pronounced Guan Eng is substantially disturbed which Tunku Aziz will go upon to challenge a celebration mount upon alternative issues. He has become a domestic risk generally with a general choosing so close.
Academic Dr Ariffin Omar who takes over from him belongs to a creditable NGO in Penang which is well known to be a extreme critic of a Government or during slightest a Barisan Government. Dr Ariffin will be fine if he sticks to you do that.
Tunku Aziz is not bitter yet admitted to a tinge of beating over a approach things have turned out. But those who matter to him have stood by him. His daughter who works overseas sent a summary saying: "Dear Papa, we might not know a details as! well as outs of politics, yet we am proud of we for vocalization out upon a right thing."
Another daughter positive him which he is "on a side of a angels". His friends have sent him enlivening messages because, as he put it, they "also hold in peace, wealth as well as confidence for a country".
From distant away in Manchester, a one as well as usually Raja Petra Kamarudin wrote: 
"For someone who has finished so most for a nation, we unequivocally do not deserve a things they have been saying about we or what they have been you do to you." RPK asked him to quit a DAP since "the longer we sojourn in DAP, a more they will demonise you".
Tunku Aziz's fall from grace with a DAP care has been serious as well as sudden as well as few see him surviving in which sort of environment. But regardless of either he survives in or leaves a DAP, he has shown which he is unequivocally a towering Malaysian.
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