So now Azmin, too, is being accused of what Khalid was accused of, with one exception. In Azmin’s case there are women offered as bribes included. Rafizi has now backtracked slightly and explained that the allegation of bribes and women was not a ‘general allegation’ but was only about ‘one specific case’. But Rafizi does not want to reveal the details because he only wants to threaten to reveal and not actually reveal the person involved.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
If you read the four-page article by Hare Kari in Agenda Daily today, you can see that the Kajang Move 2.0 has already been launched. Rafizi Ramli, the man who has admitted to being the mastermind behind the Kajang Move 1.0 that got rid of Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim, is also spearheading theKajang Move 2.0 that is supposed to get rid of Azmin Ali.
In Khalid’s case they raised allegations of corruption and abuse of power plus the allegation that Khalid is not a team-player, refuses to listen to the party president, refuses to do what the party asks, refused to give PKR’s candidates in the 2013 general election the money they needed, and so on.
The then PKR secretary-general, Saifuddin Nasution, waved a thick file in front of the press and said that it contains all the evidence of Khalid’s transgressions and crimes. And that was why PKR was forced to get rid of Khalid. Khalid sued Saifuddin, who later apologised and settled the case out of court.
Furthermore, no report has ever been made to the MACC and Khalid has not been investigated, arrested or charged for any crime in spite of that thick file which Saifuddin showed us (and which he refused to show the court). As what we suspected all along, that thick file contained nothing more that blank sheets of paper.
So now Azmin, too, is being accused of what Khalid was accused of, with one exception. In Azmin’s case there are women offered as bribes included. Rafizi has now backtracked slightly and explained that the allegation of bribes and women was not a ‘general allegation’ but was only about ‘one specific case’. But Rafizi does not want to reveal the details because he only wants to threaten to reveal and not actually reveal the person involved.
So this is not an allegation against the Selangor government. This is an allegation against one person. But Rafizi does not want to reveal the criminal. He only wants to threaten to reveal the criminal if that criminal gets out of line and goes against what the party wants.
Okay, now that that has been cleared up let us now talk about that four-page article by Hare Kari inAgenda Daily today (which you can read below). Four pages is a long article but I will pick up just a few salient points and comment on those. (The part in italics is from that article).
Given the treachery of PAS in rendering PR null and void, Azmin is turning out to be a thorn not only in PKR but the newly formed Pakatan Harapan.
What ‘treachery of PAS’ is Hare Kari talking about? Off hand I can think of only the following. HRH the Sultan of Selangor did not agree to Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail taking over as the Selangor Menteri Besar. So PAS did not propose her name to comply with the Sultan’s wishes. DAP and PKR, however, told the Sultan to go to hell. PAS refused to tell the Sultan to go to hell. That is the ‘treachery of PAS’ they are talking about.
However, PAS agreed, as per the agreement, that the post of Menteri Besar should go to PKR and not to DAP or PAS. In fact, PAS could have grabbed that post if they wanted to. But they did not. They gave the post back to PKR as what had been earlier agreed.
In that sense PAS did the honourable thing. The only ‘dishonourable’ thing they did was they refused to tell the Sultan to go to hell. And those in PAS who disagreed that they should not defy the Sultan and tell the Sultan to go to hell left the party to form a new party, Amanah. So Amanah, in short, is an anti-Sultan party.
Public perception is that Azmin is a lackey of Hadi, who is in turn a lackey of Najib!
Yes, public perception. That is what is important.
Public perception is that Amanah is a lackey of the DAP Chinese.
Public perception is that Pakatan Harapan supports Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s choice for Prime Minister — his son Mukhriz.
Public perception is that Pakatan Harapan has openly and officially forgiven Mahathir for his transgressions committed when he was Prime Minister for 22 years.
Public perception is that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was forced to obtain political funding from the Arabs because Mahathir refuses to hand back the RM100 billion of Umno’s money that he is holding.
Public perception is that the ANC (Anti-Najib Campaign) has allocated a budget of RM2 billion to topple Najib and replace him with Mahathir’s proxy Prime Minister, and that a lot of this money is being used to pay foreign journalists and bloggers to slander Najib.
Public perception is that Pakatan Harapan is prepared to pardon Sirul Azhar Omar and Azilah Hadri if they are prepared to say that the order to murder Altantuya Shaariibuu came personally from Najib.
Public perception is that Anwar Ibrahim is having fun in the Sungai Buloh Prison surrounded by hundreds of jambu who he gets to personally pick and choose to become his ‘dayang’.
Can you see I am replying to only two sentences of that article below? If I were to reply to the entire article I would need to write more than ten pages. So suffice that I stop here and you figure out yourself whether Hare Kari makes sense or whether this is just a classic example of an idiot pretending to be intelligent.
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Has Pakatan Harapan lost its self-belief?
Hare Kari, Agenda Daily
Has Pakatan Harapan lost its focus and self-belief in wasting its breath entertaining the request of recalcitrant PAS in respect to the two impending by-elections in Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar?
It is worthy to note that in both constituencies during GE13, PAS contested under the Pakatan Rakyat banner and lost narrowly.
Yet the greater truth is that PAS lost narrowly because it received the support and goodwill of Pakatan Rakyat’s non-Muslim supporters.
DAP has already stated that they will keep out of both by-elections. That leaves both seats for either Amanah or PKR to contest.
Although PKR is an integral part of Pakatan Harapan, the demented logic of Azmin would like both seats to be contested by PAS. Is this the essence of warped wisdom?
Instead of playing a mature enlightened unifying role at the recently concluded Sarawak State Election, Azmin played the role of unprincipled spoiler in projecting Pakatan Harapan as a coalition in disarray to Sarawakian voters.
When Azmin created the Pakatan Harapan fracas in Sarawak, both PKR and DAP were civil to say that they will deal with the matter after the election. To date they still seem to be civil in not addressing the political travesty in Sarawak.
Perhaps after the Sarawak humiliation Azmin is suffering from political fatigue. Given the treachery of PAS in rendering PR null and void, Azmin is turning out to be a thorn not only in PKR but the newly formed Pakatan Harapan.
In this respect, how different is Azmin from Hadi and how different is PKR from PAS? Just as in PAS where the number one and number two articulate in discordant fashion, Azmin’s actions and articulations suggest that he is not on the same page with his party’s number one.
The proof of the pudding is in the eight-page hand-written letter that Anwar Ibrahim wrote from his Sungai Buloh abode.
It is very clear to the electorate that Azmin is the principal cause of the present divisive fissures in PKR and the unease in PH. Public perception is that Azmin is a lackey of Hadi, who is in turn a lackey of Najib!
The problem becomes more befuddled because Azmin and his faction of cronies in PKR are also perceived to be lackeys of Tun M given their exuberant support for the Citizens Declaration as articulated in Anwar’s letter.
Meanwhile, PAS goes to town to score feeble brownie points by boasting that they did the right thing by officially staying away from the Citizens Declaration.
Anwar’s consternation towards Azmin and his cronies is not because he is totally against the Citizens Declaration. He was merely pointing out that PKR’s holistic reforms for the welfare of the rakyat must be its primary agenda.
Just as Najib and Hadi have hijacked Umno and PAS to serve their vested interests, the overwhelming public perception is that Azmin’s motivations todate seems that he wants to hijack PKR to serve his self-interests.
Now that PAS is no more in the Pakatan fraternity and they have nonchalantly proclaimed that they are the Third Force, it is a farce for them to appeal to Pakatan to stay out of these two by-elections.
It simply means that PAS realises that they cannot win minus Pakatan’s goodwill.
Azmin’s political logic suggests he has no qualms of rewarding the treachery of PAS at the expense of Pakatan’s struggle for a better Malaysia.
Is it not an open secret that Azmin’s bigoted logic in wanting PAS to contest in both by-elections is akin to his gratitude to PAS for installing him as MB of Selangor?
The big question is whether Azmin is going to prevent PKR from being an honourable and worthy partner of Pakatan Harapan! Or is PKR going to prevent Azmin from derailing PKR and Pakatan Harapan in the eyes of the electorate just as he did in Sarawak!
In the wake of Azmin’s support for PAS, it is interesting to know the position of DAP and Amanah on the matter!
Given that PKR is a divided house would it better for DAP and Amanah to expunge PKR from Pakatan Harapan until they get their house in order?
Should Pakatan Harapan decide to accommodate the request from PAS, would it signal the death knell of Pakatan Harapan even before GE14?
When Pakatan Harapan was formed, it was the unwritten and unspoken principle that Amanah would contest in all seats previously held by PAS. In doing a flip-flop, be it unwritten and unspoken principles, how different is Pakatan Harapan from BN?
Has Azmin, S Ambiga and Tun M forgotten that PAS is a shameless crony party of Barisan Nasional? Why give them two seats when it is known to all and sundry that PAS cannot be relied upon to uphold the aspirations of the rakyat in critical vote counts at the Dewan Rakyat.
So long as Hadi leads PAS, there is no point in putting our hopes in that bigoted party whose leadership has been mute on the unresolved mega billion dollar scandals that has brought sustained suffering on the rakyat.
At best PAS is a treacherous harlot on the Malaysian political landscape. Pakatan Harapan can do without these unprincipled specimens who have no qualms prostituting themselves given Hadi’s sordid love for BN.
Why should Pakatan Harapan mire their good name by accommodating these political prostitutes? It would be best to leave PAS to play their brothel politics by themselves and both PKR and Pakatan Harapan should emphatically tell Azmin that there is no merit in him being a pimp for PAS!
It is naïve to believe that BN can only be beaten at GE14 in straight fights. PAS being the Third Force is actually a boon to Pakatan Harapan because in three-cornered fights PAS members will ensure that their votes will not go to BN.
Furthermore, there are hordes of silent members in both Umno and PAS who are flabbergasted with their party’s incompetent and flawed leadership, while the rest of the Malaysian electorate is fully aware that a vote for PAS is a vote for Umno!
PAS can be counted to do what they are best at doing which is to promote division rather than unity among the Muslim electorate and antagonism towards the non-Muslims.
PAS can be rest assured that they will not get any of the non-Muslim votes at any by-election or at GE14.
Ever since the day PAS proclaimed that they were the Third Force, it simply meant that GE14 would be an enigma of three-cornered fights.
Given the cosy pink relationship Hadi has with Najib, he should appeal to BN and not Pakatan Harapan to stay away from both by-elections so that PAS can take on Pakatan Harapan in a straight fight to prove that they are still a relevant party on the Malaysian political landscape.
Yes! Amanah is a new party, even younger than Parti Ikatan, the official sleeping partner of PAS in its Third Force. Yet there is one big difference between Amanah compared to PAS and Ikatan put together.
That difference is Amanah is a party true to the wisdom of the political legacy of the late iconic Tuan Guru Nik Aziz who was loved, respected and admired by the multi-cultural Malaysian psyche.
Talk that Amanah is an infant party or political brand cannot and should not be entertained. If Amanah is an infant party, the same goes for Pakatan Harapan.
What is admirable about Amanah is that they are perceived as a party of upright and principled politicians, with longstanding experience in inclusive multi-cultural politics.
Today Malaysia needs more principled politicians to assume office rather than unprincipled charlatans who lead their older parties on the path of political ignominy.
Azmin like Hadi is a classic example of a charlatan politician who runs with the hare and hound to serve their own bigoted political self-interests at the expense of their respective parties and the rakyat.
When Azmin fully knows that the multi-cultural perception of the voters towards PAS is woefully dismal, he has the impunity and audacity to believe that PAS should be part of the Pakatan Harapan coalition.
Although Anwar’s letter from prison chastises his party comrades for over-zealously giving precedence to the Citizens Declaration over PKR’s own holistic reforms for the nation, it is as clear as day that the timing of the letter in the run-up to the two impending by-elections has its own stinging message to PKR and the Pakatan Harapan Presidential Council.
In the eyes of the electorate Pakatan Harapan is the embodiment of multi-cultural politics. Should Pakatan Harapan accede to PAS contesting in both by-elections it is unwittingly lending its support for a continuation of divisive racial politics.
It would probably have the net effect of non-Muslims staying away from both by-elections because of their disgust for PAS and in such a scenario both seats would be presented on a silver platter to BN.
Even if PAS wins it would not be a moral victory for Pakatan Harapan but BN because Hadi’s PAS is more BN-friendly!
Irrespective of Azmin Ali wanting to reward PAS for their treachery towards PR, the trust, faith and confidence of the Malaysian electorate is on the Pakatan Harapan Presidential Council and not Azmin to make the right decision.
Any lack of self-belief and conviction of courage would mean that Pakatan Harapan does not have the will or confidence to consign both BN and PAS to irrelevance on the Malaysian political landscape.
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