Mamu Mahathir kasi 7 sebab kepada UMNO pasai Najib...

Dr Mahathir beri 7 sebab tarik balik sokongan kepada Najib...

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad menggariskan 7 sebab, dari bantuan tunai secara langsung ke perjanjian perdagangan, yang cukup membuatkan beliau kecewa dan menarik balik sokongan terhadap Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Portal berita Asia Sentinel hari ini memetik seorang ahli perniagaan yang mempunyai hubungan rapat dengan Umno berkata Dr Mahathir menghantar surat kepada Najib yang dilaporkan mengandungi 7 perkara.

Sebaliknya, Najib menghantar Setiausaha Agung Umno Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor untuk berjumpa Dr Mahathir dan memintanya menarik balik surat itu, tetapi bekas perdana menteri itu enggan.

"Dr Mahathir enggan menarik balik surat itu dan kebuntuan ini mengakibatkan pertentangan antara kedua mereka," kata Asia Sentinel.

Perhimpunan Agung Umno yang dijadualkan berlangsung November ini dipercayai menyebabkan Dr Mahathir makin meningkatkan kempennya terhadap Najib.

Malah, Asia Sentinel berkata kemarahan Dr Mahathir meruap-ruap sebelum Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 (PRU13) lagi, di mana Barisan Nasional hilang undi popular kepada Pakatan Rakyat untuk kali pertamanya dalam 44 tahun.

Kritikan Dr Mahathir terhadap pentadbiran Najib disebar luas oleh portal berita bebas walaupun media arus perdana di negara ini memilih untuk tidak melaporkannya.

Antara tuntutan dibuat Dr Mahathir termasuk memperbaharui tabung dana 1Malaysia Development Berhad yang menanggung hutang sehingga RM36 bilion.

Dr Mahathir juga tidak berpuas hati dengan syarikat konglomerat minyak dan gas negara Petronas kerana tidak memberi cukup kontrak kepada Bumiputera.

Kata Asia Sentinel, peletakan jawatan Dr Mahathir sebagai penasihat Petronas pada Oktober tahun lepas bukan disebabkan keadaan kesihatan yang tidak mengizinkan, tetapi kerana beliau marahkan Najib.

"Dr Mahathir juga tidak suka Najib terlalu bertolak-ansur dengan Amerika Syarikat disebabkan perundingan Perjanjian Perkongsian Trans-Pasifik (TPPA) yang sedang berjalan."

Perdana menteri Malaysia yang berkhidmat paling lama iaitu 22 tahun itu dilaporkan terasa hati kerana tidak dijemput menghadiri majlis makan malam bersama presiden Amerika Barack Obama.

"Semasa lawatan Obama ke negara ini April tahun ini, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dijemput ke majlis makan malam tetapi Dr Mahathir tidak," kata portal itu.

Dr Mahathir juga dilaporkan tidak berkenan dengan tindakan Putrajaya memberi Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) kepada golongan berpendapatan rendah berjumlah RM4 billion, melibatkan 6 juta penduduk.

Dia juga menuntut syarikat penerbangan negara Malaysia Airlines yang mengalami masalah kerugian berbilion ringgit dan kehilangan 2 pesawat mengorban lebih 500 nyawa, diserahkan kepada jutawan Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary.

Asia Sentinel juga berkata Dr Mahathir menyalahkan Najib atas segala kejadian yang mengundang ketegangan kaum dan agama di negara ini.

"Bagaimanapun, sesuatu yang ironi di sini ialah Dr Mahathir menyokong kumpulan pejuang hak Melayu, Perkasa, yang diketuai  Datuk Ibrahim Ali," katanya.

"Perkasa kerap mengeluarkan kenyataan panas tentang keunggulan dan hak istimewa orang Melayu tetapi Putrajaya hanya berdiam diri."

Menurut Asia Sentinel, walaupun Dr Mahathir tidak lagi berkuasa sejak meletak jawatan pada 2003, negarawan berusia 89 tahun itu mempunyai rekod yang menggerunkan.

"Dr Mahathir memaksa bekas perdana menteri Tunku Abdul Rahman dan Tun Hussein Onn meletak jawatan. Pada zamannya, Dr Mahathir pernah menerima cabaran dari mereka seperti Tengku Razaleigh Tengku Hamzah, Tun Musa Hitam dan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

"Semua mereka ini sama ada menteri kewangan atau timbalan perdana menteri yang pernah cuba menyingkirkan Dr Mahathir tetapi tidak berjaya." 

Sementara itu Umno menafikan laporan yang mendakwa Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad telah menulis surat kepada Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak sebelum beliau membuat teguran terbuka yang keras terhadap Najib.

Dalam mesej teks kepada Malaysiakini, Setiausaha Agung Umno, Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor (kanan) berkata tidak ada perkara seperti itu.

Lawanweb Asia Sentinel melaporkan bahawa Najib telah mengarahkan Tengku Adnan bertemu dengan Dr Mahathir dan menggesanya supaya menarik balik surat tersebut, yang kononnya mengandungi tujuh tuntutan.

Bagaimanapun, ia melaporkan, Dr Mahathir enggan berbuat demikian.

Asia Sentinel mendakwa surat itu yang dihantar dua tiga bulan lalu, dipetik kepada lamanweb oleh seorang ahli perniagaan yang mempunyai hubungan dengan Umno.

Pada hari Isnin, Dr Mahathir menulis di blog beliau, menyatakan kekecewaan terhadap kepimpinan Najib dan menyesal kerana menyokong beliau pada masa lalu.

Ditanya mengenai kritikan bekas perdana menteri itu terhadapnya, Najib hanya tersenyum dan mengelak soalan tersebut.– tmi/mk

Mahathir’s Case Against Najib Detailed...

Former premier lists specific reasons for his withdrawal of support for serving PM

As long as two to three months before former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad publicly attacked his successor, Najib Tun Razak, through his blog, the former premier sent Najib a letter bristling with a list of demands to change his ways.

Mahathir’s irritation has sputtered behind the scenes since before the disastrous May 2013 general election, in which the ruling Barisan Nasional lost the popular vote for the first time in 44 years although it retained its majority in parliament via gerrymandering.  Since that time, bloggers deployed by Mahathir have made general attacks on the sitting prime minister, who took office in 2009 with Mahathir’s approval. 

But for the first time he personally criticized Najib in his blog, Che Det, saying on Aug. 16 that he had withdrawn support.  The campaign against Najib has been mounted now in advance of the November United Malays National Organization general assembly, where it appears Najib has an unassailable position as party president.

Mahathir was scheduled to leave tonight for London, where Najib and his wife Rosmah Mansor have been for the past several days after a holiday that began three weeks ago after Najib’s speech to families of the doomed MH17 airliner, which was brought down by a rocket over disputed territory in Ukraine on July 17. 

In the letter to Najib, quoted to Asia Sentinel by a businessman with links to UMNO, Mahathir reportedly listed seven demands. Najib is said to have dispatched Tengku Adnan Tenku Mansor, the secretary-general of the United Malays National Organization, to see Mahathir, asking him to withdraw the letter.  Mahathir refused, however, sources say.  In the intervening weeks, nothing has happened. 

Since Mahathir’s attack, the story has been playing out behind the scenes of the mainstream media, which are controlled by the political parties that make up the national ruling coalition. They have gone black, carrying only praise for Najib without mentioning Mahathir’s assault. Instead, the papers have merely included statements of support for Najib from leaders such as Foreign Minister Hishamuddin Hussein and others without mentioning the reason the support is needed. 

Meanwhile the story has lit up the Internet, with independent news portals having a field day while Mahathir’s blogger allies including Rocky’s Bru, Outsyed the Box and others have defended him.

The demands listed in the letter included one that Najib reform the controversial 1MDB sovereign fund, which is deeply in debt after having funded a long string of controversial projects. It is said to be a major scandal sizzling out of sight and involving controversial Chinese playboy Taek Jho Low and Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor. 

The octogenarian former premier also complained that not enough contracts let by Petronas, the national energy company, were going to build up Bumiputeras, mostly ethnic Malays, but instead were being let to more neutral parties. At one point in October of 2013, Mahathir actually resigned from Petronas, saying his doctors had advised him to slow down. But the real reason is said to have been his anger with Najib’s performance. 

He also accused Najib of being too friendly with foreign governments including the United States over the bid to join President Barack Obama’s TransPacific Partnership Agreement free trade pact, and Singapore for bending to Singapore’s wishes and cancelling a controversial crooked bridge between the two countries over the Singapore Strait. He was also said to be miffed that Mahathir’s immediate successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, attended a dinner with Obama during the latter’s Malaysia visit but that he wasn’t invited.

He also objected to the so-called one-off BRIM cash handouts that the government announced to households making less than RM3,000 (US$847) per month in 2012 as an election sweetener to alleviate the burden of a rising cost of living for low-income earners, saying it was breaking the budget. It ended up costing the treasury as much as RM4 billion.

He demanded that Malaysia Airlines, which is 70 percent owned by the Khazanah Nasional sovereign fund, be turned over to the private sector to attempt to right it after two disastrous crashes that took the lives of more than 500 people and which is almost moribund, losing billions of dollars. The private sector is said to be Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhairy, a longtime Mahathir crony who became the country’s richest Bumi tycoon, largely through government contracts.

Finally, Mahathir criticized Najib over the breakdown in racial and religious relations in the country, which have grown progressively more poisonous by the year.  That seems to be a striking obtuseness on Mahathir’s part, since he has backed the Malay-supremacy NGO Perkasa, headed by firebrand Ibrahim Ali, and has made incendiary statements about racial superiority on his own. Prior to the 2013 general election, he sought to lead a major rally on May 13, the anniversary of 1969 communal riots that took  the lives of hundreds.  Najib forced the cancellation of the rally.

Allies say Mahathir’s aim is not to bring down Najib, but to apply enough pressure to force him into making deep changes in the way the government is being run. However, at the age of 89, having been out of power since 2003, and with few remaining allies in UMNO, it is questionable at this point how much clout he still has. 

However, he has a formidable record, having forced the ouster of Tunku Abdul Raman and Hussein Onn as prime ministers before his own 22 year period in office, beat back challenges by UMNO stalwarts Tengku Razaleigh, the Finance Minister, and both Musa Hitam and Anwar Ibrahim as his deputy prime ministers, all of whom attempted to unseat him,  and then forced the departure of the successor he picked, Abdullah Badawi.  He is expected to mount a daunting campaign against Najib when the two return from overseas. - asia sentinel

UMNO denies Dr M sent '7 demands letter' to Najib...

Umno has denied a report claiming that Dr Mahathir Mohamad penned a letter to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak before publicly whipping him.

In a text message to Malaysiakini, Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said: "There is no such thing."

The Asia Sentinel stated that Najib had instructed Tengku Adnan to meet Mahathir and urge the former prime minister to withdraw his letter, which purportedly contained seven demands.

However, Mahathir had refused, the report says.

Asia Sentinel claimed that the letter, sent two to three months ago, was quoted to the website by a businessman with links to Umno.

On Monday, Mahathir wrote a caustic posting on his blog, expressing disappointment with Najib's leadership.

Asked about Mahathir's attack at a function last night, a smiling Najib sidestepped the question.

'Dr M sour not invited to dine with Obama'

As for the demands, Asia Sentinel reported that among them was a call for Najib reform the debt-ridden 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).

In his letter, Mahathir also purportedly complained that not enough contracts from national oil and gas company Petronas were going to the bumiputera.

Apart from this, he was said to have accused Najib of being too friendly with foreign governments, including the United States, on the TransPacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).

"He was also said to be miffed that Abdullah Ahmad Badawi attended a dinner with (US President Barack) Obama during the latter’s visit but he wasn't invited," the report states.

Mahathir, according to the report, also demanded that Malaysia Airlines, which is 70 percent owned by the Khazanah Nasional sovereign fund, be turned over to a business tycoon close to the former premier.

Since his public admonishment of Najib, speculation has been rife that Mahathir is now planning to topple him, just like how he played an instrumental role in removing Abdullah.

However, Mahathir later said he wanted Najib to improve, not resign.- mk

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