Najib Says Vital For BN To Maintain Political Stability
Barisan Nasional deputy chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the coalition must remain the bastion of political stability to thwart challenges from outside. "Come what may, what is of utmost importance is our political stability. I believe we can overcome whatever challenges from outside. Therefore, don't allow the developments outside the party to threaten us," he said when addressing a BN gathering here Friday night.
**** that's ok by me. But what is this 'challenge' from outside he refers to? Unless of course Dr M has already been classified as outsider even before his ouster from UMNO. In my mind the main threat for BN is from within and is self-inflicted.
Corruption (including criminal laxity in checking it) and sustained, gross abuse of the NEP are two that strike at the very root of the peoples' displeasure and unhappiness with the BN and the government. Dr M has merely lent his considerable, international 'voice' to highlight BN's maladies which ironically he was mainly responsible for.
Najib reminded Umno and other BN leaders not to be easily confused and make wrong judgements. In other words he is telling them don't listen to old man Mahathir and switch sides or jump ship.
"If we all hold fast to our principles, God willing, I believe we will succeed in our cause. Whatever issue that crops up will not weaken us from inside. Our party will be weakened from inside if we let it happen." He said the party could be weakened if its members took the wrong steps, or made the wrong judgements and wrong decisions.
Again he pleads to the opportunists in UMNO and the BN (and there are loads and loads of them) not to turn tail. However I take issue with him when he urges them to hold fast to their principles. It is primarily because the BN and the government is filled with unprincipled fortune hunters and jailbird material in politician's clothing that they are in this fix today.
Until and unless the big boys of UMNO get rid off unsavoury characters and crooked politicians from within the party there is no point of talking of challenges or threats. From the very top right down to the grassroots, corruption has seeped in and taken root. Before it chokes UMNO and the BN into oblivion please order a whole range of spring cleaning and vacuuming.
**** that's ok by me. But what is this 'challenge' from outside he refers to? Unless of course Dr M has already been classified as outsider even before his ouster from UMNO. In my mind the main threat for BN is from within and is self-inflicted.
Corruption (including criminal laxity in checking it) and sustained, gross abuse of the NEP are two that strike at the very root of the peoples' displeasure and unhappiness with the BN and the government. Dr M has merely lent his considerable, international 'voice' to highlight BN's maladies which ironically he was mainly responsible for.
Najib reminded Umno and other BN leaders not to be easily confused and make wrong judgements. In other words he is telling them don't listen to old man Mahathir and switch sides or jump ship.
"If we all hold fast to our principles, God willing, I believe we will succeed in our cause. Whatever issue that crops up will not weaken us from inside. Our party will be weakened from inside if we let it happen." He said the party could be weakened if its members took the wrong steps, or made the wrong judgements and wrong decisions.
Again he pleads to the opportunists in UMNO and the BN (and there are loads and loads of them) not to turn tail. However I take issue with him when he urges them to hold fast to their principles. It is primarily because the BN and the government is filled with unprincipled fortune hunters and jailbird material in politician's clothing that they are in this fix today.
Until and unless the big boys of UMNO get rid off unsavoury characters and crooked politicians from within the party there is no point of talking of challenges or threats. From the very top right down to the grassroots, corruption has seeped in and taken root. Before it chokes UMNO and the BN into oblivion please order a whole range of spring cleaning and vacuuming.
posted by The Malaysian. at 6/24/2006 11:10:00 AM
2 Comments:
I think our biggest problem is defining what are the signs that can be interpreted as "political instability" - by tradition, we will think of demos, OPS Lalang and ISA.
In this age of perceived transparency, have the rules of the games been changed?
Today political instability is synonymous with instabilty in UMNO.
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