Why is PM Najib begging for Chinese
support?
By Chua Jui Meng
Chua at a lunch talk organised by
Selayang PKR on Oct 14, 2012.
PRIME
Minister Najib Abdul Razak is now begging for Chinese support because he fears
the wrath of the Chinese voters in the next general election.
After
55 years, he knows the Malaysian Chinese community have had enough of the MCA
selling out to the corrupt Barisan Nasional (BN)-Umno. He knows the MCA is
finished.
The
Chinese cannot afford to continue to tolerate Umno’s socio-economic suppression
which is retarding the country’s economy, causing misery to all Malaysians.
It
is ironical that it was the Chinese who saved Mahathir Mohamad and BN-Umno in
the 1999 General Election after the then Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
was jailed with trumped up sodomy charges.
Some
60% angry Malays voted for the Opposition in 1999 but the Chinese remained
loyal to BN. If not, BN would have been toppled then.
However,
instead of thanking the Chinese, Umno leaders remained arrogant and continued
to discriminate against the Chinese and non-Malays.
Now,
even Sabahans and Sarawakians are getting restless by the day, struggling to
make ends meet daily due to rising cost of essentials and living.
That
is why Najib has been making visits to the two East Malaysia states, also
begging for support from what BN-Umno claims to be their fixed deposits in
general elections.
Friends
have asked me why I did not just behave like a “Yes man” in MCA and enjoy the
perks.
That
is not my nature. Soon after I was elected an MP, I spoke in Parliament for
about two hours on the flaws and misgivings of the New Economic Policy (NEP).
And
it was Perkasa Ibrahim Ali who attacked me and succeeded in getting the Speaker
to stop me from debating the matter further. (Here’s the details: http://chuajuimeng123.blogspot.com/2012/10/chua-on-nep-in-1988.html)
But
my debate managed to capture Mahathir’s attention and he then formed the
National Economic Action Council (NEAC) to review and made liberal reforms in education,
cultural and economic policies.
Chua greeting Chinese guilds and
association leaders upon his arrival for the lunch talk.
As
far back as 2005, when I made my first bid for the MCA presidency against Ong
Ka Ting, I made it very clear in my presidential election manifesto that the
MCA must be reformed to remain politically relevant to Malaysians, especially
the Chinese.
Unfortunately,
the party central delegates refused to heed my warning that MCA was heading for
doom. After the March 2008 political tsunami, I made a second bid for the MCA
presidency, warning party members that MCA’s subservience to Umno had breached the
Chinese community’s tolerance level and that they were now very restless.
I
even called MCA to be prepared to leave BN if Umno refused to stop their
corrupt and racist ways.
I
also urged the implementation of serious reforms, as outlined in my manifesto,
but still my plea was ignored. The pathetic state of MCA today is for all to
judge.
I then
had no choice but to find another political platform to help look after the democratic
rights of the rakyat (people) and the
nation’s wellbeing.
Under
such circumstances, do you expect me to remain in MCA, flogging a dead horse?
A group photo of PKR leaders after a
successful political lunch talk with Chinese guilds and association leaders.
Umno
leaders and their supporters, like Umno’s outsourced racist leftist Perkasa,
were fond of telling the Chinese to Balik
Tongsan (return to China).
Why
must I? I am born and bred in Malaysia. This is also my country, a country that
I love.
Umno’s
bigots are disuniting and destroying the nation by fanning religious and racist
emotions.
What
the Chinese and Malaysians want are dignity, justice and fairness in
governance.
