Hari ini Nik Aziz tiada, Esok gomen perpaduang UMNO-PAS wujud di Kelantan...

Itu luahan hati seorang pemimpin kanan PAS yang bimbang kematian Mursyidul Am PAS, Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat nanti akan merealisasikan apa yang kita bimbang sangat sebelum ini -penubuhan kerajaan UMNO-PAS di Kelantan.

Menurutnya, semua orang tahu pendirian Hadi Awang yang sangat pro kerajaan perpaduan, begitu juga dengan Timbalan Nik Aziz, Haron Din. Kalau tidak kerana campur tangan Nik Aziz (pro Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim), sudah lama kerajaan perpaduan berkenaan wujud di Kelantan.

Jika ia menjadi kenyataan di Kelantan, ia juga akan menjadi kenyataan di Terengganu dimana UMNO dan PAS hanya berbeza 2 kerusi DUN.  Tambah memburukkan keadaan, kerajaan perpaduan di Kelantan bermaksud hudud pasti akan dilaksanakan kerana UMNO Kelantan menyokong hudud.

Atas sebab itu katanya lagi, kita patut bersyukur kerana Nik Aziz masih mampu bertahan.  Khabarnya pagi ini Nik Aziz sudah boleh bangun dan minum air, tak seperti keadaaannya semalam, tidak sedarkan diri.  Kita harap keadaan Nik Aziz bertambah baik dari hari ke hari.

Bukan mudah penghidap kanser pada usia seperti Nik Aziz boleh bertahan.  Orang yang tidak ada kanser pun sukar nak bertahan pada usia seperti itu, tapi NIk Aziz boleh.

Keadaan ini menurut pemimpin berkenaan perlu dipertahankan selama mungkin, sekurang-kurangnya sehingga pemilihan PAS yang baru diadakan, dimana Hadi akan disingkirkan sebagai Presiden PAS. Lepas itu, kalau Nik Aziz mati sekalipun, kematian itu tidak mendatangkan masalah kepada Pakatan Rakyat.

Ini katanya penting atau kerjasama dalam Pakatan Rakyat tidak akan bertahan sehingga PRU14, tak sebut lagi kalau Anwar dipenjarakan bila-bila masa dari sekarang jika Mahkamah Persekutuan tidak membuat keputusan yang menyebelahi beliau.

Majoriti orang dalam PAS hari ini adalah pro ulama – fraksi yang dikuasai sepenuhnya oleh Hadi dan Haron Din.  Hanya Nik Aziz sahaja yang membolehkan PAS kekal dalam Pakatan Rakyat.  Tanpa Nik Aziz, PAS akan menjadi parti tunggal macam dulu semula. - NPR
Apa salahnya kalau Anwar berkerjasama dengan Najib

Adakah masalah ekonomi boleh diselesaikan dengan menjual jet Najib...

Saya bukanlah seorang ahli ekonomi, tetapi saya tahu bahawa kita tidak dapat menyelesaikan masalah ekonomi negara hanya dengan menjual jet rasmi Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Idea tentang menjual jet ini muncul apabila Ahli Parlimen Pandan Rafizi Ramli menggunakannya sebagai contoh bagi menunjukkan betapa sedikit pengurangan bajet RM400 juta yang dinyatakan Najib melalui penggantungan Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN) bagi tahun ini.

Setiausaha Agung PKR itu membuat kenyataan tersebut dalam satu sidang media di ibu pejabat PKR, Petaling Jaya pada 20 Januari lalu. Beliau berseloroh bahawa keadaan akan menjadi lebih baik jika “Najib jual sahaja dua buah jet itu untuk jimat RM400 juta”. Rafizi mengulas semakan semula Bajet 2015 yang diumumkan Najib pada hari yang sama.

Sebagai seorang politikus yang pintar, Rafizi sedar kenyataan seloroh itu adalah propaganda yang baik, terutama apabila media mengenengahkan kenyataan itu dalam artikel mereka.

Beliau tidak melengahkan masa untuk menggunakannya, dan sehari kemudian, gambar dimuat naik di laman Facebook dengan kenyataan:

“Wartawan tanya pandangan saya mengenai langkah Najib Razak potong peruntukan belanjawan kerana dana berkurangan. Saya berseloroh minta dia jual jet-jet peribadi yang ditanggung rakyat yang dia dan isterinya selalu naik. ‘Like’ jika setuju.”)

Tidak mengejutkan apabila gambar itu mendapat 20,000 “likes” dan dikongsi lebih 700 kali, termasuk oleh Ketua Umum PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Beliau juga memutuskan untuk menandakan Najib dalam posting itu.

Ia mencetuskan perbahasan di kalangan pengguna Facebook, dengan 500 komen setakat malam 21 Januari. Dan ia seperti akan berterusan sehingga kini.

Ia memang lucu, namun seluruh episod ini mungkin akan menutup isu yang lebih penting tentang bajet negara – seperti isu ekonomi asas yang Rafizi sendiri katakan tidak disentuh dalam semakan tersebut.

Namun, menggunakan jet untuk meraih publisiti adalah langkah yang bijak daripada Rafizi. Ia juga menyebabkan isu jet itu kembali mendapat perhatian ramai ketika ia seperti mulai surut.

Pujian perlu diberikan kepada Rafizi, yang sehingga kini menunjukkan ketegasan dan keazaman, dan kini sikap humor ketika memainkan peranan sebagai bintang PKR yang meningkat naik. Beliau menunjukkan cita-citanya dengan cuba berhadapan dengan Najib dalam isu ekonomi dan kewangan. Sebelum ini, beliau menekan Perdana Menteri dalam isu sensitif seperti 1MDB dan harga minyak.

Rafizi mungkin telah mengurangkan sedikit serangan terhadap 1MDB dan mengalihkan tumpuannya kepada jet dan bajet. Namun dijangka sasaran kritikannya kekal sama – Najib, Perdana Menteri Malaysia.- Candy Jiang,theantdaily

Will selling Najib’s jets solve Malaysia’s economic woes 

Najib May Be Mahathir’s Sixth Scalp Soon...

DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang has publicly noted that the political scene is abuzz with news, raising the question whether the sixth Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak will be the sixth scalp of former premier Mahathir Mohamad, or whether the country would be soon hauling the first “tiger” or “crocodile” to court and prison in Malaysia’s anti-corruption campaign.

Lim, also DAP Parliamentary Leader and Gelang Patah MP, pointed out in a statement that Mahathir had collected five scalps of top political leaders in the country in the past 45 years.

He gave a list:

Bapa Malaysia and first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, two Deputy Prime Ministers who might have gone on to become Prime Ministers, Musa Hitam and Anwar Ibrahim, fifth Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, and the eternal Prime Minister-aspirant Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. Lim seems to have missed out Hussein Onn, the third Prime Minister, who was eased out by Mahathir.

“The question now is whether Mahathir will add the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, to his collection of six top political scalps in Malaysia,” reiterated Lim.

But Najib is evidently not taking the possibility of his “political scalping” by Mahathir lying down, added Lim, and the question has arisen whether the first “tiger” or “crocodile”, in the history of Malaysia’s lacklustre anti-corruption campaign, will be hauled to court and prison soon.

“Suddenly, there seems to be a possibility that Malaysia’s anti-corruption campaign may enter a new era,” said Lim.

Lim wants to know: Is the country’s anti-corruption campaign on the eve of a new scenario, with “tigers” or “crocodiles” being hauled to court and prison in Malaysia, like in China and Indonesia? - NPR

The doctor who slays giants...

As former finance minister Daim Zainuddin gets smeared in the mainstream media, it appears that the proxy war between former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and incumbent Najib Abdul Razak is escalating.

But with 22 years at the top post and still an influential figure, Mahathir already has much experience in knocking his opponents into the political abyss.

Malaysiakini recounts some of those who have been, or still are, on Mahathir's hit list.

Tunku Abdul Rahman (1970)

Roughly a month after the May 13 riots in 1969, Mahathir penned a letter to then prime minister Abdul Rahman accusing his policies as being pro-Chinese, that Tunku  was directly responsible for the riots, and told him to resign.

The letter was also widely copied and circulated to the public, and it struck a chord with other Umno members and Malays.

As a result, Mahathir, then an Umno supreme council member, was sacked from the party for indiscipline.

For Tunku Abdul Rahman, however, his fate was already sealed and he was forced to resign on Sept 22 the following year.

It was also during this period, when he was in the political wilderness, that Mahathir wrote his best-known book, The Malay Dilemma.

Musa Hitam (1986)

Then deputy prime minister and home minister Musa Hitam resigned in February 1986, ostensibly due to irreconcilable differences with Mahathir.

Three months earlier, Musa took the blame for the Memali Massacre in Baling, where 14 alleged religious deviants and four police personnel were killed

This took place while Mahathir was said to be abroad, visiting China, and Musa was the acting prime minister.

However, Musa revealed last year that Mahathir was in fact in Kuala Lumpur at the time. Mahathir then confirmed this but insisted that the incident occurred under Musa’s watch.

Regardless, with his reputation dented, Musa teamed up with his long-time rival Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to challenge Mahathir and his new deputy Ghaffar Baba in the 1987 Umno election.

Mahathir’s camp narrowly won and proceeded to purge Tengku Razaleigh’s supporters from positions of power, but only to have the court invalidate the party elections due to irregularities and Umno was declared illegal.

Nevertheless, Mahathir moved on and established the New Umno (Umno Baru) while Tengku Razaleigh founded his short-lived Semangat 46.

Anwar Ibrahim (1998)

Now parliamentary Opposition Leader, Anwar was co-opted into Umno in 1982 by Mahathir himself and quickly rose through the party ranks.

However a rift grew between the two and Anwar was eventually sacked as Umno deputy president and as deputy prime minister, on Sept 2, 1998, and stripped of his Umno membership.

Anward was then charged and convicted of sodomy and abuse of power, although some of these convictions were overturned in 2004.

During this time, a smear campaign against Anwar was also run through the media and within Umno itself. Books containing highly graphic allegations against him were distributed at Umno general assemblies on several occasions.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (2009)

Abdullah took over as prime minister after Mahathir resigned in 2003, and he then led Umno and BN to its best electoral victory, in the 2004 general election.

In the meantime, Mahathir was not content to watch his successor reverse policies and decisions he made as prime minister, and therefore Mahathir began to criticise Abdullah’s administration.

As he was being shut out of the mainstream media, Mahathir turned to blogging and even granted an interview with Malaysiakini to vent his frustrations.

A DVD containing a recording of him criticising the government at a closed-door function was also distributed during Umno’s 60th anniversary celebration in 2006.

The writing was on the wall for Abdullah when BN shockingly lost five states and most of Kuala Lumpur’s seats to Pakatan Rakyat in the landmark 2008 general election.

In May 2008 Mahathir surrendered his Umno membership and vowed not to return until Abdullah resigned.

Abdullah stepped down on April 3, 2009, and a jovial Mahathir handed his membership application to the newly-minted Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Najib Abdul Razak?

Although grumblings against Najjib had already begun earlier, attacks by Mahathir’s loyalists began to escalate soon after the 13th general election, where BN suffered its worst ever electoral performance, with the opposition gaining over 50 percent of the popular votes despite BN’s slim victory.

By August last year, Mahathir too began scathing attacks against Najib, claiming that he was a disappointment and worse than Abdullah.

Among his grievances: The 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) debt scandal, the repeal of the Internal Security Act, the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) with the US and economic policies such as minimum wage.

Can Najib withstand Mahathir’s onslaught or will Mahathir topple yet another prime minister? - mk

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