On Tunku Aziz, DAP supporters.

Tunku Aziz can say whatever he wants. He will be disappointed when unlike him; Dyana Daud will not leave DAP.

Tunku Aziz said when he joined DAP, the party fought against corruption. He too wants to fight corruption. So he found in DAP a form of kindred spirit. But later he found out DAP wasn’t fighting against corruption but against the government. So he says, after the fact- that cannot be because he wasn’t into that kind of fight. Tunku Aziz didn’t know that to fight against corruption, he has to fight against the structures that support corruption.

Only later he found out, DAP isn’t an NGO or a social pressure group, but a political party.

Perhaps to Tunku Aziz, corruption takes place in a vacuum, no perpetrators, no people. Corruption is rampant with this government, how can you fight corruption without taking the superstructure that supports it?

Don’t tell me, this simple association wasn’t intelligible to Tunku Aziz when he joined DAP? Tunku Aziz left because he felt slighted and beneath him to be denied serving as senator. So how come Tunku Aziz is no longer fighting against corruption now? 

Is it because DAP is taking this fight, Tunku Aziz doesn’t want to fight corruption fearing that he would be associated with DAP? Then Tunku Aziz is just another egotistical bloke who thinks only he has the right to fight corruption. This man cannot belong anywhere in this case. Not DAP, not UMNO, not any party. He is one man show.

Tunku Aziz will be disappointed when Dyana Daud is not going to leave DAP on the account of Tunku Aziz. He has to sell his sad tales to some other gullible parties.

Where have the DAP supporters gone? 

Mah Siew Keong has won the Teluk Intan by election. Hooray. Congratulations to him. Teluk Intan will now get a highway. No doubt some UMNO division leaders will get the project- any of the big UMNO warlords in Perak. It will also get a university. I see there are already two universities there- UKM and UITM. Maybe University of Chinese traditional medicine. Or something like that.

Mah will also be inducted into the cabinet.  He will be made a minister. This and the previous carrots were promised by UMNO ministers and the PM. Rela members will get new uniforms. Perhaps the leaning tower of Teluk Intan will be jacked up and straightened.Tamil school goers see a better future beyond standard six.

I hear those who say, the Chinese did not vote this time because they did not think this will change the government. Chinese support for DAP dropped from 85% to 70%. They are more interested in seeing development taking place. I cannot fault this kind of reasoning although I do not agree with it.

What the Chinese want most of all is fair dealing and fair treatment. Never mind if Tajudin Rahman wants to become PM. Or whosoever gets to replace Najib. As long as the next government provides fair treatment and fair dealing.

As for education, lack of government funding has hardly stopped Chinese from pooling resources and creating their schools, colleges and even universities. The Grand court Hotel in Teluk Intan wasn’t built using government grants. Caely Girl factory wasn’t built using BN government funds. The Medical Centre in Batak Rabit wasn’t built using government money. So what development are the Chinese talking about?

Private enterprise and Chinese entrepreneurship create development- not government.

I am less interested in achieving a marginal increase in Malay support for our Teluk Intan candidate. It wasn’t enough to compensate for the reduced support from the Chinese and Indian communities. My main question is what happened to the more than 7000 surplus that the late Seah got in in 2013? Where did it go?

Perhaps, the dangling of a ministership was big enough to sway the voting decision of the Chinese in Teluk Intan. Mah as minister can sort out many business problems. When Mah was promised a minister post, maybe 10 tycoons get together to support Mah. If each pooled in RM500,000 there is a RM5 million fund which can used to soften up the most stubborn person. One tycoon wields much influence over Chinese voters who may be beholden to them in so many ways.

But I also see some dark linings over the silver clouds. DAP must not take for granted Chinese support for them. That is a more pertinent question rather than mulling over the increase in Malay support and reduced non Malay support. The loss in Teluk Intan to me shows, the efforts to make people think as Malaysians must also be cultivated among DAP members too. For too long, the emphasis and concentration were directed at changing the mind-set of Malays. The focus on Malays is still the number one priority though, but the culture of thinking as Malaysians must also be nurtured among DAP members.

I have not the slightest doubt, thinking as Malaysian is prevalent among the top leadership of DAP- but am less sure when assessing it among the DAP hoi poloi. The missing 7300 voters who voted for the late Seah Peng Leong in 2013 is a case in point. Where have they gone? I am sure not all are outstation voters. Some may be in Teluk Intan . But they didn’t come out to vote the DAP candidate.

Posted by sakmongkol AK47