Excessive egoness and power hunger of DAP

Perak Sate assembly Speaker V. Sivakumar (DAP-Tronoh) did not allow Datuk Seri Raja Ahmad Zainuddin Raja Omar (BN-Kubu Gajah) from being the first speaker to debate a motion of thanks on the royal address clearly display of excessive ego ness and power hunger.

V. Sivakumar is the first Indian speaker in the country. Regardless of how powerful the speaker may be, the earlier decision made by the deputy speaker should be honored and the disrespected manner should be condemned to the strongest degree.

All 28 Barisan Nasional (BN) assemblymen staged a walkout, led by state BN chairman Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali, as a show of protest after Speaker V. Sivakumar did not allow Datuk Seri Raja Ahmad Zainuddin Raja Omar (BN-Kubu Gajah) from being the first speaker in a debate here yesterday.

Earlier, Raja Ahmad Zainuddin had stood up and asked that he be allowed to debate a motion of thanks on the royal address at the end of the question and answer session.

Sivakumar, however, allowed Chang Lih Kang (PKR-Teja) to be the first speaker instead.

Raja Ahmad Zainuddin protested, saying that Deputy Speaker Hee Yit Foong had, on Wednesday, promised that he would be the first speaker.

A shouting match ensued with accusations hurled at the speaker for not honouring the earlier arrangement.

At this juncture, Tajol Rosli stood up and asked the speaker to either allow Raja Ahmad Zainuddin to debate, or the BN state assemblymen would stage a walkout.

When the request was turned down, Tajol Rosli immediately walked out of the hall, followed by other BN assemblymen.

DAP - DONKEY ACTION PARTY

Do you realize that the new name for DAP is Donkey Action Party?

DAP has once again shown its true face after the 12 General Election 2008. It has revealed its real nature as a Donkey Action Party which doing all sorts of donkey jobs for the benefits of the PAS.

The true face of DAP has finally been revealed and its "ideological" mask has been lifted too by cooperating with PAS to form the Perak state government. DAP even go to the extent of allowing a PAS leader to be the new Menteri Besar.

PAS only hold six state seats as compared with 18 by the DAP and seven by PKR in Perak, but the MB post was given to Perak PAS secretary Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, who won the Pasir Panjang state seat.

DAP has declared before that it will never cooperate with PAS due to Islamic state issue. It has been denying that it is working with PAS when they sought the support of the Chinese community in Perak during the campaigning period, but after getting their votes, the DAP is doing otherwise.

DAP should have told the non-Muslim especially Chinese community right from the beginning that they were cooperating with PAS so that the voters would be able to make a wise decision at the ballot box. It is politically unethical as the people gave DAP their trust and in return by working with an Islamist party.

History speaks for itself. Now you can see Pemuda PAS wanted the 5 Pakatan Rakyat state governments to implement the Islamic Laws including Hudud and Siasah Syariah. Article 8 provides that every citizen is equal before the law, so the discriminatory nature of the Hudud is against non-Muslims and women.

It has revealed its real nature as a servant of power. It has also shown that it is fundamentally incapable of forming new government. This behavior has finally revealed the true face of the DAP, showing their thirst for power.

The people of Perak especially Chinese had been led away by sweet words and got cheated by DAP. Do they still remember they were promised that DAP will fight for their basic rights? Won’t the Chinese awaken now?

DAP's co-operation with PAS is a marriage of convenience

For the country like Malaysia that supposedly prides itself for its multiracial make-up, one can be forgiven for feeling obliged that the major parties existed are race-based parties.

In the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, only the Malays can be members of UMNO, the Chinese in the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), and the Indians in the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC). Although all races can be members of Gerakan, but it still perceived as Chinese dominant party. On the other hand, there are no membership restrictions based on one’s race to joining PKR and DAP.

Ironically, DAP is founded on secular social democratic principles and the ideology of DAP is Malaysian Malaysia but it can not move pass being a party for Chinese, still perceived to racially fanatic Chinese-based party which fights for a secular state. Whereas PAS is founded on religious conservatism and with its Islamic ideology wanting to form an Islamic state is the ultimate aim. PAS and DAP are of two extreme end of the right wing racial spectrum.

Although DAP, PAS and KeADILan formed the coalition Pakatan Rakyat, but they are still swimming about in the pool of contradicting ideologies. They will never reconcile on the political ideological grounds, bar the fact that they both want to be in power.

In last general election, paradoxically, it is because of the Anwar phenomenon that caused the forming of Islamic state was not mentioned in the PAS manifesto, neither to turn Perak into an Islamic state later. The struggles of two parties are on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum with PKR in between, thus can be seen as marriage of convenience.

A lot of criticism has been directed toward those three parties, and some of them are said to be justified especially the issue of DAP's co-operation with PAS. Those who look at things through racially tinted lenses, and spit out provocative rhetoric based on stereotype and prejudice should be criticized. But the political scenario implication of believing that DAP had compromised the principle and stand for a secular state, Lim Kit Siang has become an agent of Nik Aziz and a spokesman of PAS for the establishment of an Islamic State are deep-rooted in non-Malay society. DAP being perceived as no longer subscribed to its ideology.

Ironically, playing racial politics is a no-brainer for DAP, and it negates the need for the party to find its niche in denying the irrelevancy frequently portrayed.

The serious questions arise, why do DAP and PAS exist? Do they exist to only look after the welfare of a particular race? Will the difference in ideologies enhance the co-operation between DAP and PAS? Will race-based parties are undesirable? Are Malaysians comfortable voting race-based parties into power or otherwise? Will the forming of Pakatan Rakyat perceived that DAP is no longer relevant?

While I am only aware, in the eyes of the Chinese, they rather get their nipples frozen off than get a religious fanatic from PAS for being a MB in Perak and with minor variation, the same principle apply in many areas beyond writing and speaking.