The "dacing" is no more balanced..........

Against the backdrop of the oil royalty $$$, the many promises, granted many projects,offering a lot of goodies, and in spite of giving so much hand out yet the voters rejected BN. Are the voters rejecting BN because its BN or because of Najib?

Having been defeated in two successive by-elections after the 2008 general election proves that the rakyat indeed rejects Pat Lah. Rejecting Pat Lah leadership also means spurning Najib's leadership too. If not for the massive cheating, vote buying and blackmailing the majority would be much bigger.

Najib is a hard working campaigners but his only setback was that he was peddling defective, tarnished, tainted goods and promises that he barely can keep. On top of that his image and reputation too has much been clouded with corruption and the bizarre murder of the Mongolian beauty- Altantuya Shaaribu. The ghost of the Mongolian beauty is still haunting him at every breath he takes; at every move he makes and every steps he takes and"she" will be watching him.....

Other factors that also contributed to UMNO's defeat are:

a. The voters were put off by the Umno’s candidate,Wan Ahmad Farid with a sullied image and badly plagued with so much baggage and negative perception that surrounds him. The Batu Burok shooting incident is one controversy that the rakyat feels he had something to do with. The rumour that his brother pocketed millions of the oil royalty money through projects such as the monsoon cup partly contributed to his downfall.

b. Umno and the BN have not changed their campaign tactics and styles. They monopolised the the mainstream media (TV, radio, papers) and used it to churn out government propaganda and demonize Pakatan Rakyat daily till polling day. Their political commentators were mostly pro-UMNO panjandrums who barks faithfully on behalf of their masters.

c. Harassment and intimidation using the police force is so common. The people are put off by the huge police presence, between 10,000 - 12,000 police personnels for a small by-election, ridiculous, dont you think so?

d. The UMNO and BN leaders are arrogant and they never accept the fact that UMNO and BN are no longer supreme.

e. The voters are more matured now. The younger generation are well educated and they can distinguish between right and wrong. They can influence their parents who are UMNO/BN supporters. A phone called or a SMS " jangan pangkah UMNO/BN", is suffice to do the damage. These youngsters are computer savvy and the blogs are their sources of information that they look to, instead of the mainstream media (TV, radio, papers).

f. The voters know now that development is the responsibility of the gomen of the day and the gomen's promise of development if elected are all bullshits to them. They know that the money that UMNO handed to them is their own money and it doesn’t belong to UMNO. Take it, but my vote is “rahsia”.

g. The "dacing" is no longer balanced. Terengganu is rich but the rakyat are poor.

h. UMNO is corrupt to the core and by having someone like Najib, with a tarnished reputation to lead UMNO, can only be mean the end. The 70 million worth of contract in a lucky draw fashion to class F contractors, the RM 12 million for the chinese community and the ground breaking ceremony for the 1000 new low-cost PPRT housing scheme done hurriedly contributed to UMNO's nonstarter. The rakyat are not fools. Why these are happening only during an election?

The dissatisfaction among the various UMNO factions also contribute to UMNO's poor showing in the PRK. Many UMNO leaders are not too happy with Najib who is about to inherit the PM post on a silver plate. The defeat can also be interpreted as a non endorsement of Najib's leadership.

Thus, my first question will be, is Najib fit to be our PM?

Anyway the KT voters spoke loud and clear........

cheers.