Saya mesti mengakui bahawa saya telah tertipu dengan helah Pengerusi BN Pulau Pinang Teng Chang Yeow dalam permainan politik beliau mencabar saya dalam pertandingan antara kami berdua di Padang Kota.
Jelas sekali kenyataan Teng semalam menunjukkan bahawa dia tidak mempunyai niat pun untuk menepati cabaran beliau sendiri terhadap saya. Walaupun saya telah menerima syaratnya yang tidak masuk akal iaitu supaya saya bertanding hanya satu kerusi DUN dan tidak bertanding kerusi Parlimen, sebagaimana yang dikehendaki terhadap saya sebagai Setiausaha Agung DAP untuk memimpin parti saya di peringkat nasional.
Terdapat 3 sebab mengapa saya telah terheret ke dalam penipuan politik Teng. Pertama, dia telah mengeluarkan cabaran kepada saya terlebih dahulu. Jika dia kini menafikannya, kenapa dia menetapkan syarat yang tidak masuk akal supaya saya bertanding hanya kerusi negeri, yang saya terima. Tindakan Teng mendakwa bahawa bukan dia yang melontarkan cabaran terlebih dahulu menunjukkan dia tidak mempunyai keberanian pun untuk mengakui hakikat itu.
Dua, Teng telah pernah menyatakan sebelum ini bahawa "anda mesti bangkit di tempat anda jatuh", yang hanya bermakna bahawa dia akan bertanding semula di Padang Kota. Untuk dia mengatakan bahawa dia bermaksud untuk bangkit di Pulau Pinang dan bukan Padang Kota memperlihatkan dia sebenarnya tidak jujur kerana dia boleh juga maksudkan bahawa dia akan bangkit dari planet Bumi.
Ketiga, dia telah mengumumkan bahawa dia akan menjadi seorang pemimpin yang berbeza dari Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon dan bersedia untuk bertegas dengan Umno.
Dengan melarikan diri daripada bertanding kerusi sendiri di Padang Kota yang telah disandangnya selama 3 penggal pada tahun 1995 sehingga 2008 menunjukkan bahawa dia hanya bersedia untuk berdiri di belakang Umno.
Tidak kira bagaimana pandai Teng melakukan helah Politiknya, dia tidak boleh lari dari hakikat bahawa beliau sendiri melihat dirinya sebagai wakil Umno dan bukan wakil rakyat, yang jelas berbeza daripada prinsip bahawa Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang mesti memimpin rakyat dari hadapan dan bukan dari belakang Umno.
Dengan meninggalkan kawasan saya di Air Putih dan memilih kawasan lama Teng di Padang Kota, saya telah memberikan beliau kelebihan yang baik. Padang Kota telah dimenangi oleh DAP dengan majoriti terendah 1,661 undi di antara semua 19 kerusi negeri yang dimenangi oleh DAP di Pulau Pinang pada tahun 2008. Walaupun DAP memenangi kerusi ini dengan majoriti terkecil, dia masih tidak berani untuk kembali bertanding di kerusi lamanya.
Saya mengharapkan pertandingan antara kami akan memberikan pilihan yang jelas kepada rakyat - sama ada untuk kembali kepada UMNO dan memilih kerajaan yang dikepalai oleh kroni BN atau memilih kerajaan yang mesra rakyat, untuk rakyat, oleh rakyat dan terdiri daripada rakyat. Ini juga adalah tentang dua dasar pentadbiran, satu yang membenarkan rasuah; dan satu lagi yang percaya bahawa kerajaan yang bersih berdasarkan kecekapan, akauntabiliti dan ketelusan boleh mengatasi sebuah pentadbiran yang korup.
Saya salah kerana menyangkakan bahawa Teng seorang pemimpin yang berbeza daripada Koh Tsu Koon. Malah dia sebenarnya adalah lebih teruk daripada Koh kerana sekurang-kurangnya Koh berani untuk bertanding semula di kerusi DUN beliau. Oleh itu, saya tidak lagi akan melayan permainan politik Teng. Walaupun saya telah tertipu dengan helah politik Teng, sekurang-kurangnya keengganannya untuk bertanding di kawasan lamanya telah mendedahkan Teng sebenarnya bukan pemimpin yang memimpin dari depan tetapi dari belakang Umno.
Sebaliknya saya akan memberi tumpuan kepada mesej saya tentang masa depan jenis apa yang kita mahu untuk anak cucu Pulau Pinang. Pakatan Rakyat percaya dengan Pulau Pinang yang lebih bersih, hijau, selamat dan sihat. Biarlah rakyat Pulau Pinang memutuskan sama ada PR mempunyai dasar-dasar dan prinsip-prinsip serta mempunyai keberanian dan idealisme untuk menyediakan masa depan untuk anak-anak kita dan menyediakan anak muda kita untuk masa depan.-harakahdaily
DAP umum dua calon Melayu untuk PRU di Pahang
Guan Eng-Chang Yeow contest off in Penang...
Saying
he is tired of Penang BN head Teng Chang Yeow’s antics, DAP
secretary-general Lim Guan Eng today ended any involvement in the
challenge to contest the Padang Kota state seat.
Lim, who is Penang chief minister, said he has had enough of Teng’s twists and turns since the subject was raised, and added that Teng has been acting like a “circus performer”.
As such, Lim said, he was “not interested in playing this kind of game and will not entertain the matter any more”.
“Clearly
Teng’s statement yesterday showed that he has no intention of honouring
his challenge to me,” he told a press conference this morning.
“This is despite the fact that I had accepted his ridiculous condition that I contest only a state seat and give up contesting a parliamentary seat, as is required of me as DAP secretary-general.”
Teng had opened himself to the possibility of contesting against Lim in the coming election when responding to a question during an exclusive interview with KiniTV.
Lim had accepted the offer the next day, saying he would meet Teng in Padang Kota, where the latter had been a state assemblyperson for three terms until he lost in 2008.
But Teng raised the condition that he would choose the seat and that Lim must contest only in the state and give up his quest for a parliamentary seat.
Lim agreed to contest in a state seat only, if Teng agreed to battle him in Padang Kota, a Chinese majority seat. Teng then said he wanted to meet Lim in a mixed race seat.
‘Political deception’
Lim
explained that there were three reasons why he had been drawn into
Teng’s “political deception”, and maintained that it was Teng who had
issued the challenge.
“If he now denies it, why did he set the ridiculous condition that I should contest only a state seat, which I had immediately accepted?” he said.
“For Teng(right) to claim that he had not issued the challenge shows that he lacks even the courage to admit that.”
Lim said Teng had also declared that one must pick up from where one falls, which could only mean he would re-contest Padang Kota.
For him to say he meant picking himself up in Penang and not Padang Kota, is “dishonest as he might as well say he would pick himself up from planet Earth”, Lim mocked.
Teng had announced he would be a different leader from former chief minister and Gerakan president Koh Tsu Koon, saying he was willing to stand up to Umno, said Lim.
“I was wrong in thinking that Teng would be a different leader from Koh. In fact, (Teng) is worse because (at least Koh) had dared to re-contest his state seat.
“Even though I have been tricked by Teng’s political deception, at least there is a silver lining in that Teng’s refusal to recontest his old seat has exposed him as a leader who leads not from the front but from behind Umno.
“By running away from contesting his own seat of Padang Kota that he held for three terms from 1995-2008, shows that he is only willing to stand behind Umno.”-malaysiakini
Chang Yeow says feel sorry for DAP and Guan Eng
Siri Jelajah Merdeka Rakyat Anwar Ibrahim & Jeneral (B) Tan Sri Md Hashim Hussein Ke JohorLim, who is Penang chief minister, said he has had enough of Teng’s twists and turns since the subject was raised, and added that Teng has been acting like a “circus performer”.
As such, Lim said, he was “not interested in playing this kind of game and will not entertain the matter any more”.
“Clearly
Teng’s statement yesterday showed that he has no intention of honouring
his challenge to me,” he told a press conference this morning.“This is despite the fact that I had accepted his ridiculous condition that I contest only a state seat and give up contesting a parliamentary seat, as is required of me as DAP secretary-general.”
Teng had opened himself to the possibility of contesting against Lim in the coming election when responding to a question during an exclusive interview with KiniTV.
Lim had accepted the offer the next day, saying he would meet Teng in Padang Kota, where the latter had been a state assemblyperson for three terms until he lost in 2008.
But Teng raised the condition that he would choose the seat and that Lim must contest only in the state and give up his quest for a parliamentary seat.
Lim agreed to contest in a state seat only, if Teng agreed to battle him in Padang Kota, a Chinese majority seat. Teng then said he wanted to meet Lim in a mixed race seat.
‘Political deception’
Lim
explained that there were three reasons why he had been drawn into
Teng’s “political deception”, and maintained that it was Teng who had
issued the challenge.“If he now denies it, why did he set the ridiculous condition that I should contest only a state seat, which I had immediately accepted?” he said.
“For Teng(right) to claim that he had not issued the challenge shows that he lacks even the courage to admit that.”
Lim said Teng had also declared that one must pick up from where one falls, which could only mean he would re-contest Padang Kota.
For him to say he meant picking himself up in Penang and not Padang Kota, is “dishonest as he might as well say he would pick himself up from planet Earth”, Lim mocked.
Teng had announced he would be a different leader from former chief minister and Gerakan president Koh Tsu Koon, saying he was willing to stand up to Umno, said Lim.
“I was wrong in thinking that Teng would be a different leader from Koh. In fact, (Teng) is worse because (at least Koh) had dared to re-contest his state seat.
“Even though I have been tricked by Teng’s political deception, at least there is a silver lining in that Teng’s refusal to recontest his old seat has exposed him as a leader who leads not from the front but from behind Umno.
“By running away from contesting his own seat of Padang Kota that he held for three terms from 1995-2008, shows that he is only willing to stand behind Umno.”-malaysiakini
Chang Yeow says feel sorry for DAP and Guan Eng
2 April 2013 (Selasa)
1) 8.00-12.00 mlm – Ceramah Perdana Pakatan Harapan Rakyat
Lokasi: Jalan Berlian 10, Taman Cahaya, Masai
2) 8.30-12.00 mlm – Ceramah Perdana Merdeka Rakyat
Lokasi: Jalan Kemboja, Kg Dato’ Sulaiman Menteri,
Majidee, Johor Bahru
3) Barisan Penceramah:
a.YB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim
b.Jeneral (B) Tan Sri Md Hashim Hussein
c.YB Lim Kit Siang
d.YB Sallehuddin Ayub
e.YB Dato’ Saifuddin Nasution
f.YB Sivarasa
g.YBhg Idris Jauzi
h.YBhg Jimmy Puah Wee Tse
i.YBhg Selvakumar
cheers.
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