PETALING JAYA: Crocodiles, “useless ministers” and chopping of heads were some of the themes as Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidates took aim at Barisan Nasional (BN) when launching their general election campaign last night.
For Teresa Kok of DAP, the 15th general election (GE15) was merely a continuation of what she called a “crocodile hunt” that had begun with the last polls four years ago.
“If GE14 was ‘operation crocodile hunt’, then this GE15 is ‘operation crocodile hunt part two’” she said during a ceramah in Lucky Garden, Bangsar.
She said the main factor that led to PH winning GE14 was the 1MDB scandal and how “former prime minister Najib Razak and his gang” had abused their power and the national wealth fund.
Kok, who is defending her Seputeh seat in GE15, added that Najib would not be in jail today had the people not voted PH into Putrajaya in 2018.
Fahmi Fadzil of PKR, who is defending the Lembah Pantai seat, said BN had carried out a “mass head-chopping” exercise when dropping some big names from their GE15 candidate list.
“What has been happening the last couple of days is what I’d like to call a mass ‘head-chopping’ session. If we look through the list of BN candidates, the poster boy is on it but all (his) ‘fanboys’ have been dropped,” he said.
The PKR information chief added that even if Umno vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob becomes prime minister in the next government, all the people who were in his camp have been scrapped from the list.
Thus, Fahmi said, there would still be no stability in the new government as there were “two tigers on that mountain”, referring to both Ismail and Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
“That is why PH is far more stable because both its poster boy and chairman are the same person,” he said, referring to opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.
Meanwhile, Hannah Yeoh highlighted the disarray among BN and Perikatan Nasional (PN) leaders, saying Muhyiddin Yassin had appointed many “useless ministers” into Cabinet, only for the same people to be reappointed by Ismail, his successor as prime minister.
She gave the example of Bersatu’s Rina Harun, who held the position of women, family and community development minister under both Muhyiddin and Ismail’s administrations.
Yeoh, who is defending the Segambut seat, said Rina had done nothing to help the people during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, even shutting down the Talian Kasih hotline, meant to help people in distress, at one point.
Echoing Fahmi, Yeoh too said Ismail was incapable of defending his own ministers, citing entrepreneur development and cooperatives minister Noh Omar and federal territories minister Shahidan Kassim, who were both dropped from the list of BN candidates.
“If he cannot even defend his own people, you think at any point of time he would defend your rights and speak up for you?” she asked an audience of over 150 people.
The other speakers at the ceramah were Big Blue Taxi Services founder Shamsubahrin Ismail, Bukit Lanjan assemblyman Elizabeth Wong, Petaling Jaya city councillor Bryan Ng, and Shah Alam city councillor Shakir Ameer. - FMT
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