Yoursay: What battle did you win, Azmin?

YOURSAY | ‘The battle to get rid of a gov’t that was voted in by the people, and bring back the gov’t you helped boot out?’

Our week-long struggle has succeeded, says Azmin

Anonymous 770241447347646: What battle did you win, former PKR vice-president Azmin Ali? The battle to bring back those charged for corruption to power?

What battle did you win? The battle of setting up a government not through the electoral process but through undemocratic moves?

What battle did you win? The battle to get rid of a government that was voted in by the people, and bring back the government that you helped boot out?

Why? Because of your personal agenda and not the agenda of the millions of people who voted for you and the coalition you were part of.

In the history of this nation, you think that you are a hero but the future generation will remember you as a traitor.

Turvy: It is interesting how the word ‘struggle’ is being used. In Azmin's mind, to plot, betray, deceive and lie are all part of the struggle.

Perhaps in his mind too, he feels he will be remembered as one who struggled for a great cause and he will be immortalised...

Musketeer: I don’t care about Azmin. But PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim should have controlled his party. He failed miserably.

He let the Pakatan Harapan government fall because of his faction’s endless fight with the Azmin faction. A plague on all of you.

Wakandan: Anwar’s hand was tied, Azmin was used by then Bersatu leader Dr Mahathir Mohamad to compromise him.

Even if he had taken action against Azmin, he did not know the extent of Mahathir’s support for Azmin. That would certainly break the Harapan peace and Anwar probably did not want to rock the boat.

He wanted to get the PM seat first and with that, he could do the pruning. Azmin did read that, that was why he had to pre-empt Anwar move with last week’s incidence.

Anwar was against the combined force of Mahathir, Bersatu and Azmin. There was no way he could prevail. His hand was just not strong enough.

Vijay47: The dust has not yet settled, it is still swirling about though at a lesser pace only to pick up ferociously in a week’s time. I cannot anymore say I am pained or shocked, the better words would be disillusioned and jaded.

I have reconciled myself to the betrayals within the betrayal, the double and triple-crosses but what was astounding was that allegiances could be changed so cavalierly within minutes with the least hint of shame or embarrassment, not that there were men devoid of principle but that there are so many.

To worsen our wretchedness, there was not a single person who admitted to any personal fault, even of misjudgement which could have been tolerable. Instead, each of them came out with puke-inducing justification, all for the wellbeing of the rakyat.

Azmin wanted to continue economic reforms for us. Another wanted the best for the people as he welcomed and honoured the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's decree. As a responsible citizen, of course. A certain chief minister was guided not by the greater national cause but “what’s there in it for us”.

And all this from our members of parliament in whom we had placed our trust and hope to lead us at least somewhere.

Even as they stood amidst the embers, these vermin refused to accept their responsibility for this national disaster – former Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian explained he became a turncoat joining Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin because he thought Mahathir was not keen on the premiership.

Forget your sentiments towards us, Baru Bian, but how lowly you must hold yourself. All of them honourable men, none had the self-respect to abdicate from the throne “for the woman he loved”.

Can we offer sympathy to a confused 94-year-old man running lost from pillar to post, lamenting how those he had trusted had stabbed him in the Senate? We also feel betrayed, Mahathir, with bigger vindication. Where do we weep?

When you deny even now your role in this tragedy, our unlikely pity and shoulders will be of no comfort to you.

However, you might relish the company you have in Bersatu leader Maszlee Malik. When you hold one position in the morning and another by afternoon, Maszlee, as you dance according to the breeze, your credibility is gone with the wind.

Our greatest consolation is from that group that come hell or high water remained unwaveringly steadfast to honour and principle – the members of DAP and Amanah. As the castle was collapsing, as traitors were running loose, you stood there unflinching. For that, we owe you eternal gratitude.

And me, what do I do now? Pardon the gleeful, gloating smirk, Mahathir, Azmin, PAS leader Abdul Hadi Awang, and friends, but wherefore Malay dignity? Is it time for another congress? Get ready, Zakir Naik.

Sentinel: God detests hypocrisy. If you cloak your words in the veneer of piety, know that the stench of betrayal cannot be masked by such words.

Your day will come, Azmin. You and the conspirators have all done an injustice. Remember that justice will be done upon you by the divine.

Anak JB: The Si Kitol in ‘The Malay Annals’ is too much an understatement. It will be in infamy that Malay literature is rewritten and Si Azmin now is synonymous with the ultimate betrayal to the highest order.

He backstabbed every one along the way, Anwar, PKR, Harapan and then Mahathir.

He started off as saying he was there to prevent Anwar from grabbing power and wanted Mahathir to stay full term and now conveniently gang up with the kleptocrats and the corrupt to grab power through the backdoor and got rid of Mahathir along the way too. - Mkini