There’s no future for
Malaysians under BN
By Chua Jui Meng
Chua greeting villagers at the PKR
kampung-style BBQ dinner cum political rally in Kuala Krau town on Oct 28,
2012.
PAHANG’S
13 successive years of Budget deficits should convince the rakyat (people) of the state that the Barisan Nasional (BN)
government is unreliable and a non-performer.
Just
like the BN federal government’s misrule which has accumulated more than RM500
billion in debts, the majority of the people of Pahang, the rural poor and the Orang Asli (original inhabitants), will
continue to live in abject poverty under the BN.
There’s
no future for you in Pahang and in Malaysia under the BN.
This
is why the people of Pahang should give the Anwar Ibrahim-led Pakatan Rakyat
(PR) the chance to govern in the next general election.
Greece
is living proof of how the people will suffer if their country accumulates too
much debt and goes bankrupt. The standard of living in Greece has plummeted and
it will need to plunge 40% before the economy can be revived.
This
will happen if the BN is given the mandate to continue to plunder the country’s
wealth unabated to enrich their business cronies and the Umno elite.
Why
must Pahang be so far behind Selangor in terms of socio-economic development?
BN
and your uncouth Mentri Besar Adnan Yaakob are leading you nowhere other than
economic hell.
Pahang
is bankrupt if not for the federal government’s funds that are sourced from
borrowings.
Have
you all benefited from your Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak who is from your
state? And he repays the Pahang peoples’ support with Lynas or nuclear waste.
Najib
has also exposed himself as a coward and a Muslim prime minister who cannot
even defend his religion against the attacks by Chua Soi Lek and MCA.
Part of the Malay majority crowd who
turned up to hear Chua’s ceramah in
Kuala Krau on Oct 28, 2012.
He
did not have the conviction and courage to accept Anwar’s challenge to debate
Budget 2013 in Parliament. This debate would have been the best chance for
Najib to convince the rakyat that if
PR ruled, it would bankrupt the country.
And
Najib also said it was not a Malaysian culture to debate. So, what have all the
elected representatives been doing in state assembly and Parliament sittings
for the past 55 years, if not debating?
Najib
and all his Cabinet members are cowards when not a single of them dared to be
present in Parliament to face Opposition Leader Anwar’s opening debate on
Budget 2013.
When
PR offered free education for Malaysians in its alternative Budget 2013, Najib
and BN just brushed it off, without offering any valid arguments, that the
country would be bankrupted by such a move.
KThis signboard in Kuala Krau town reads
– No Wireless Village 1Malaysia.
Again,
Anwar challenged Najib to debate the free education issue, and again he goes
into hiding.
Why
is your prime minister so scared to debate on significant issues afflicting the
people? Why can’t Najib let the people judge his and Anwar’s arguments over
such important issues?
Now,
even Dr Mahathir Mohamad who ruled Malaysia for 22 years says Najib is a weak
leader.
Throughout
his tenure as prime minister, Mahathir had misled the Malays and Orang Asli and enriched his family and
cronies.
Mahathir
was the one who, in 1991, amended the Land Acquisition Act 1960, to enable the
states to seize or grab land cheaply from the people, especially the Malays, in
the name of development for the private sector. And subsequently, Mahathir passed
the land to cronies like UEM to develop and reap huge profits.
This
is happening in Johor. Nusajaya and Pengerang are two glaring examples. I
believe this is also happening in Pahang and in all other BN-ruled states.
With
such cruel abuses of power, can you really expect and hope for the BN to lead
the rural and urban poor, and the Orang
Asli, to prosperity?
It
is time for the Pahang people to rise, before it is too late, to Kubukan Pahang Untuk Rakyat (turn Pahang
into a people’s fortress).
Temerloh PKR deputy chairman Abd Kadir
Ab Manap@Man Kadir@Pak Jabit had the villagers in stitches when he said: Tengok TV3 hari-hari rakyat jadi tiga suku
(Watching TV3 every day, the people will go half crazy), Tengok RTM rakyat tunggu mati (Watching RTM the people is waiting
for death).
Kuala Krau PKR chairman Haji Suhaimi
Said, an activist who was twice detained under BN’s draconian Internal Security
Act (ISA), urged the people of Pahang to support the planned Anti-Lynas 14-day
walk from Kuantan to Putrajaya to deliver a memorandum to Najib.