The day has come - Umno is NO LONGER RELEVANT!

There was a time when elections always meant an UMNO verses PAS battle. And to make a lopsided difference to the battle lines, UMNO roped in the MCA and MIC. DAP was left on its own steam.

So all that BN needed to do, just before elections, is to frighten the population with that imagery of a turbaned, bearded, parang wielding reign by PAS leaders and eureka, you have all Malaysians huddled to a bee-line bent on voting BN.

And like a programmed, habitual mouse, UMNO is back with the same game plan, this time raising the hudud issue to an unprecedented notch in the main stream media.

Question is - will it work again this time around?

Anwar's persecution returns to haunt Dr M

No. It is not working already. Why? Because UMNO is being regarded by many as irrelevant for the times. While UMNO diehards will see this stand as blasphemous and profane, the question to ask is “How come?”

To begin with, Mahathir has caused the downfall of UMNO a long time ago. His strategy is akin to that of the story of the boy who cried wolf.

Second, the downfall of UMNO was programmed by Mahathir the day he unceremoniously sacked, captured, caged and tried to annihilate Anwar Ibrahim – a Malay Muslim.

And so we were driven to that point of having Malays for UMNO and Malays for KeAdilan and Malays for PAS as much as we have Chinese for MCA and Chinese for DAP.

Malaysians vs Malays, Chinese, Indians, KDM

Along with the changing times, the above development transformed further and today we have Malaysians for Opposition while BN keeps glued with UMNO Malays, MCA Chinese and MIC Indians.

Therein then lies UMNO’s irrelevance.

In fact it is also too late in the day for UMNO to reinvent itself for it is left with only BN whereas the opposition coalition has emerged as a truly Malaysian political platform with Malays, Chinese and Indians in all parties – DAP, KeAdilan and even with promising talk in PAS.

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