July 17, 2012
Khalid Ibrahim: A Technocratic Hedgehog not a Political Fox
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: The abdication of PKR central care legislature member
Latheefa Koya from a Petaling Jaya Municipal Council calls courtesy during an inopportune moment to Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim's perspective towards inner dissent, that could charitably be described as maladroit.
Latheefa, a lawyer with a prolonged track record of human rights advocacy primarily with Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM) and, latterly, with Parti Keadilan Malaysia, a entity PRM merged with in 2002 was allocated a councillor in 2008 when Pakatan Rakyat took over Selangor following a victory in a general election that year.
Latheefa had sent an email to Khalid sharply criticising a approach a proof by a rope of urban pioneers (peneroka bandar) during a Selangor State Secretariat (SUK) office in Shah Alam upon Jun twenty was handled.
'Peneroka bandar' is a legally recognized judgment that creates it obligatory of skill developers not to provide as squatters family groups prolonged domiciled upon land a latter do not own though to that they have rendered worth by a combination of residence, small-scale agriculture, animal husbandry, or alternative economic activity.
The designation 'peneroka bandar' was a tough won legal coinage gained in a mid-1980s by a advocacy of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) as well as a predecessor, Parti Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia (PSRM).
It was a delight of no small import as well as a signal square of justification that a studious as well as dedicated sacrament of causes by antithesis parties, however minuscule, can red! ound to a betterment of a hoi polloi.
Protesters made to continue on fire feverishness
The people who had demonstrated upon Jun twenty were from 46 family groups from a urban pioneering colony in Sungai Buloh that was uprooted to have approach for development had been trying in vain to rivet with MB Khalid for a year.
The gates of a SUK formidable were closed to forestall a demonstrators from entrance in to a building proper, thus forcing them to continue a on fire feverishness for some hours before they dispersed.
It certainly wasn't a approach for a Pakatan supervision to provide people that they should rivet with even if disinclined to acquiesce to their demands.
Engagement is a core plank of a Pakatan manifesto of national shelter for a country usually succumbing to a plutocracy that UMNO-BN has devolved in to over a past half century.
On those grounds, Latheefa was right to criticise Khalid as well as to give wider outcome to her strictures by circulating a email to senior leaders of PKR.
Khalid took umbrage. He tabled a motion during a assembly of a Majlis Tindakan Economy Selangor (Selangor Economic Action Council) or MTES, that is composed of state senior manager councilors, to have Latheeya sacked.
The motion, seconded by Dr Xavier Jeyakumar, was upheld with two demurrals Elizabeth Wong's (PKR) as well as (it was bruited about) Ronnie Liu's (DAP).
Latheefa listened about a decision. To pre-empt counts she decided to quit before a preference to sack her as MBPJ councillor could be executed. Thus a make a difference that could have been eased by rendezvous has eventuated in a abdication of a party activist from a position in that it has not been referred to she is not pertinent upon comment of criticising control considered unbecoming of a Pakatan government.
Good in some areas, bad in others
Convoluted? Yes, though a look during a source o! f a deba te should indicate how simply a whole make a difference could have been avoided.
When asked during a political business assembly why a gates were closed leaving a demonstrators to a forgiveness of a curse heat, Khalid replied that it was finished for "security" reasons.
If Khalid had stayed loyal to a Pakatan ideological core of engagement, a embarrassing mistake heading to Latheefa's abdication could plausibly have been avoided. This hop is unfortunate since a merits of his administration department department department have been all as well solid to see.
As outlined during a Selangor State Assembly event recently, a state's cash pot stood during RM918 million during a finish of 2010, as well as RM1,100 million during Jun 30, 2011.
"In six months, a state supervision has managed to enlarge a state income by RM200 million as well as this is a most appropriate financial record over a past 28 years," trumpeted Khalid to a assembly.
When a record of financial administration department department department is so good; when it is contrasted to a profligacy, corruption as well as rubbish of a UMNO-BN years in assign of a country's most inclusive state; when a marked alleviation in most measures of governance is drift for confidence that Pakatan would retain during a polls a state that UMNO-BN so really bad wants back, it would appear cross to criticise an administration department department department for peccadilloes such a miss of solicitude for a grouses of a collection of urban pioneers as well as accompanying high-handedness in dealing with a critic of that lack.
But that's what it is. Khalid is good during excelling during several of a things that have been important for a longevity of Pakatan rule while fouling up some of a things that cumulatively would undermine a coalition's hold in a future.
This is called excelling during pomp as well as fouling up circumstance, incidentally an UMNO-BN speciality.
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