Much has been done of a supposed 100,000 audience of Umno members during a Bukit Jalil Stadium to comply Umno's 66th anniversary celebrations. Umno boss Datuk Seri Najib Razak was obviously ecstatic in seeing a sea of Umno members dressed in red which greeted him upon his arrival during a stadium.
He remarked which they as good can move in a crowds. And he was triumphant meditative which await for Umno had returned. You can't fault him for being carried away by a feeling of well-being of a occasion.
But little does he realize which his optimism was misplaced.
Who were these people who came to a stadium? Why did they come? How did they come?
These were Umno members as good as supporters. They were induced to come. More than 2,000 buses brought them from opposite a nation to a stadium. They did not come of their own free will, during their own expense. Everything was paid for; all was taken caring of.
Supposing each of a 2,000 buses carried 40 members; which would give a sum of 80,000 members as good as supporters. How most would it have cost to move all these members to Kuala Lumpur?
The buses had to be hired; which costs money. The 80,000 people had to be fed; which costs money. They had to be accommodated for a night in a reasonable hotel; which costs money. They had to be paid an allowance; which costs money. Taking all this expenditure in to consideration, a question to ask is, how most millions did it take to move them to KL?
The 80,000 members who attended out of a proclaimed membership sum of 3.5m functions out to reduction than 3 per cen! t of Umn o's sum membership.
The actual assemblage was reduction than 10 per cent of a progressing exaggerate of which a eventuality would pull one million
This lower-than-expected audience was what was completed after all a effort to dwarf a Bersih 3.0 throng as good as after spending millions of ringgit. It is zero to crow about!
Based upon this crowd, it makes no clarity to claim which Malay await has returned to Umno. Facts do not await this assumption.
You usually brought in a fraction of your members; we did not move in a crowds unlike Bersih 3.0. It is as elementary as that!
The usually non-Umno members who turned up dressed in red as good were from Barisan Nasional component parties! But we don't know whether these allies of Umno who play a supporting as good as certainly a subordinate role in a BN unequivocally have a await of a people. Their participation does not amount to anything to pull joy from.
Yes, we contingency not dont think about a participation of a others as well. According to a New Straits Times of 12 May 2012, "Among a supervision agencies receiving partial were a Royal Malaysia Police, Election Commission, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission as good as SME Corp Malaysia."
Why have been these supervision agencies receiving partial in a duty organised by Umno for its members? How do we clear a participation of these agencies during a political function? How have been they aligned to Umno? Or have been they essentially aligned to Umno? Are they members of Umno as well?
Compare this eventuality where all was facilitated to safeguard assemblage during a Umno do to which of a Bersih 3.0 crowd. Many would immediately say, "There is no comparison!" And they would be positively correct.
The Bersih 3.0 throng came willingly as good as willingly as good as spontaneously. There was no inducement. The usually constrained factor which propelled them to come was their desire! to awai t Bersih's eight final to safeguard which a elections would be clean as good as fair.
They were all fed up with a Election Commission as good as a approach a elections have been conducted all this while. They could no longer tolerate a biased as good as one-sided electoral process which had worked to a unfair advantage of a BN.
The throng of some-more than 250,000 which came in await of what is considered to be a greatest gathering in await of a usually means far outstripped a Umno crowd. It contingency be remembered which Bersih unlike Umno had no members to fall behind on. These were all individuals from all walks of hold up who came freely. There was no compulsion whatsoever.
And they came entirely meaningful which there would be obstacles as good as hurdles which would be really intimidating. They came ready to face if required whatever they competence be subjected to. They could not be disheartened by a threat of rip gas as good as water cannons. That's how dynamic they were; that's how dedicated they were to a means espoused by Bersih.
The Land Public Transport Commission would not grant licences to allow buses to move in a Bersih throng from out of town. Otherwise, a throng would have been even bigger. But this ride elect had no complaint in allowing some-more than 2,000 buses ferrying in Umno members from all over a country.
The Malaysian public will not be lulled in to believing which a tide has essentially turned in favour of a BN. Facts do not await this presumption.
The BN can claim anything; they can cheat a complete nation but it will not have any difference.
Discerning Malaysians will go on to ask, "What happened to your concern for a gratification of a people when we became Prime Minister in 2009? What happened to your care in 2010, when people were anticipating it hard to have ends meet? What happened to your organization to help a poor in 2011, when Malaysians were wondering whether we! would b oost their misery as good as joy them with a billions of ringgit during your disposal?"
They will ask, "Why is it usually in 2012 which have been we worried by their predicament as good as their suffering? Is it since a choosing is turn a corner?"
They can see by your diversion plan. You cannot hoodwink them anymore!
Former Aliran boss P Ramakrishnan currently serves as an executive cabinet member
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