BALING, Aug 10 — Only Umno can unite the Malays in the country and bring development to the people, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said.
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He said this is because Umno fought for independence of the country and brought development while the other Malay parties are only splinter parties.
“When we were strong, we never did bad things but build the country up to world class level. This is due to the Barisan Nasional administration led by Umno which represents the Malays.
“The Malays never had bad intention towards the non-Malays. We helped them and we helped ourselves,” he told reporters after presenting Ramadan and Aidilfitri gifts at Masjid Tok Bandar here yesterday.
Also present were his wife, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir, Kedah Umno liaison chairman, Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah and Baling BN parliamentary co-ordinator Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim.
Dr Mahathir said that the Malays must unite under Umno although the party was deemed not so strong because of a split among the community.
“For unity to happen, the splinter parties will have rejoin the original party. Some people aims to be prime minister and is willing to split Umno for his own interest.”
He said that Umno’s struggle is the right one and this was why he accepted the return of leaders who quit Umno for splinter parties. — Bernama
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On April 24, 1987, UMNO held its Annual General Assembly and triennial Party election. The then Prime Minister and party President, Mahathir Mohamad, faced his first party election in 12 years, having been elected unopposed since the 1975 UMNO election.
The politics of the Malays, particularly UMNO politics, had undergone a sea change in the first few years of the Mahathir stewardship, and the party presidency was challenged for the second time in 41 years. The first challenge was a dull affair in which Hussein Onn was opposed by a minor party official named Sulaiman Palestin. In fact, in the early 1950s, Tunku Abdul Rahman's presidency had also been challenged by C. M. Yusof, who later became theSpeaker of the Dewan Rakyat, but Tunku was not properly considered an incumbent then, being only a care-taker president.
The 1987 contest was a vastly different matter.Mahathir was opposed by his very popular former Finance Minister,Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. The press took to referring to Mahathir and his supporters as Team A, and Razaleigh's camp as Team B. Team B included then Deputy Prime Minister Tun Musa Hitam, who was also the incumbent Deputy President of UMNO seeking re-election, as well as Datuk Suhaimi Kamaruddin, the former head of UMNO Youth and president of the Belia 4B youth organisation.[36]
Team B was critical of Mahathir's policies, arguing that the Malaysian New Economic Policy (NEP) had failed to benefit the poor Malays. It also criticised Mahathir's leadership style, alleging he acted unilaterally without consulting other leaders in UMNO and the Barisan Nasional. Team B was also perceived as less Islamist than Mahathir's faction.[37]
Mahathir claimed that the charges against him were groundless, and suggested that his opponents were fracturing Malay unity and were only motivated by greed.[37]
Eventually, Mahathir was returned to office. However, he was elected with such a small majority of 43 (761 against 718 votes) that questions were immediately raised about his mandate. Team B supporters, many of whom had been anticipating a victory of similar margins, suspected that the election had been fixed. The Team B candidate for Deputy President, Musa Hitam, had also been defeated by Ghafar Baba of Team A, while two of the three Vice-Presidents were Team A candidates. The Supreme Council comprised 16 Team A candidates and 9 Team B candidates.[38]
Allegations were made that several delegates who had voted were drawn from UMNO branches not properly registered. There were also several unproved allegations being bandied about that the balloting process had not been above board.[39]
Nevertheless, Razaleigh pledged to support Mahathir, provided that a "witch hunt" was not launched. However, Mahathir promptly purged the government cabinet of all Team B members, and launched similar reshuffles in state and local governments.[40]
On June 25, 1987, an appeal was filed by 12 of the UMNO delegates to have the assembly and the election of April 1987 declared null. After one of the delegates, Hussain bin Manap, withdrew unexpectedly in August from filing the appeal, the remaining litigants have since become famous as the "UMNO 11." Although Razaleigh and Musa Hitam were not among the plaintiffs, it was widely believed that Razaleigh was funding the appeal.[39]
After a series of interlocutory hearings over the discovery of documents that took more than seven months, the matter finally came before Justice Harun Hashim in the Kuala Lumpur High Court on February 4, 1988. The judge ruled that under the existing law he had no option but to find the party, UMNO, to be an unlawful society due to the existence of several unregistered branches—an illegal act under the Societies Act of 1966. The question of the Assembly itself being illegal therefore became academic.[41]
"'It is a very hard decision to declare UMNO unlawful,' said Justice Datuk Harun Hashim in his February 4 judgement. 'But the law was made by our Parliament and certainly UMNO was aware [of the Societies Act] because they were in the majority [in Parliament] at all times [when the law was made].' Under the 1966 Act, amended five times over the years, and most recently by Mahathir's government, each of the society's branches has to register separately with the Registrar...."[41]
The Tunku and former UMNO President Hussein Onn set up a new party called UMNO Malaysia, which claimed to be the successor to the old UMNO. UMNO Malaysia was supported mainly by members of the Team B faction from UMNO, but Mahathir was also invited to join the party leadership. However, the party collapsed after the Registrar of Societies refused to register it as a society without providing an explanation.[42]
Mahathir showed no interest in reviving UMNO, and instead he set in motion the machinery to form a new surrogate party, and in due course, registered a party formally called Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu (Baru) or UMNO (New) a week after UMNO Malaysia's registration was rejected. Eventually the suffix "(New)" was dropped, and UMNO (Baru) became both the de facto and de jure successor of UMNO (with the old UMNO's assets handed over). Most of its leaders, however, were selected from Team A of the old UMNO, with Team B ignored.[43]
Mahathir Kutty an Indian Muslim has caused great pain and sorrow to this country. He divided the people using Religion and Race. He has corrupted the whole management system bringing in mismanagement and debts to the next seven generation. Today he claimed that only UMNO Baru can bring development to this country. But what he is not telling is that he had destroyed and make UMNO illegal. UMNO from Tunku Abdul Rahman till Hussein Onn no longer exist. Today UMNO Baru otherwise known as the Malay Mafia Corporation is the one taking away our land and right. UMNO Baru has destroyed our Constitution and turned it into trash. Today UMNO Baru is the one who deny other Malays from moving forward. Today UMNO Baru through monopoly of water and electricity has threaten to cut supply if we do not continue to support and vote for UMNO Baru. Today our education system is a failure turning youngsters into copycats with no brain to think and create. From civil servants to the folks on the street everything is about paying or asking for bribes. WE HAVE A FAILED NETWORK OF SYSTEM WHERE WE MUST ENGAGE IN CRIME TO FIGHT FOR OUR SURVIVAL. That is the working of UMNO Baru and the brain child of an Indian Muslim who refused to accept his origin birth race. Throwing more salt onto our faces Muhkriz can afford to tell us not to further embarrass Mahathir Kutty his father twice but instead show our love by supporting UMNO Baru. It is a pity that Muhkriz is not looking at his own siblings who have embarrass their father continuously by bankrupting 200 companies, grand child held hostage for gambling debts, drug addiction, stealing, money laundering and gay activities. So we the Rakyat must show our love to a MAD THIEF. Are we so stupid?
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