No chance for PAS to defeat Isa Samad

UMNO fielded its former former Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar Isa Samad while PAS named Negri Sembilan state commissioner Zulkefly Mohamad Omar for the Bagan Pinang.

Isa Samad

PAS would have no chance to defeat former UMNO vice-president Isa Samad. With the existing of 4,604 postal voters in the constituency, he will claim a completely one-sided fight anyone has ever seen and get a big win in the forthcoming Bagan Pinang by-election in Negeri Sembilan.


Zulkefly

Ironically, the support for BN has increased now compared with the 2008 general election. It shall demonstrates the strong grassroots support for Isa Samad who was Negeri Sembilan MB for more than two decades, and the heavy campaigning to be undertaken by the BN.

The late Umno's Azman Mohd Noor, 55, defeated PAS’s Ramli Ismail with a 2,333-vote majority in the last general election. There are 13,644 registered voters, including 4,604 postal voters in the constituency.

Isa, 59, former Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar has been Teluk Kemang Umno chief since 1982. He began his political career in 1978 when he won the Linggi state seat, which he held till 2004.

He contested and won Jempol parliamentary seat in the 2004 general election and was subsequently made the Federal Territories Minister before stepping down in 2005.

He steadily rose up the ranks culminating in his being appointed Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar following the general election of 1982.

Zulkefly, 45, is a businessman who holds a masters degree in science and has six children.

His claim to fame includes successfully leading the Broga No-Incinerator Committee, which managed to pressure the government to scrap the construction of a 'mega-incinerator'.

He has contested in three elections since 1999 but lost by a 1,285 majority in his 2008 foray in the Lenggeng state seat.

Isa is BN’s right candidate for Bagan Pinang

BN election director Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced that Umno fields its former vice-president Tan Sri Isa Samad as the candidate in the forthcoming Bagan Pinang by-election in Negeri Sembilan.

Muhyiddin said, this by-election is about the people, people first, whoever the people want, we will grant the people their wish.”

It is claimed that the former Mentri Besar being able to unite the people in Bagan Pinang as the constituents, including the non-Malays accepted him.

Ironically, what is good for the goose is also good for the gander. Although one man's meat is another man's poison, but Wise men always think alike, so Isa is being seen as the right candidate for Bagan Pinang.

It is believed that he will win many more votes than former BN’s Azman Mohammad Noor.

Politically, Isa’s selection today is seen to be his second attempt in making a comeback after failing to defend the Umno vice-president post during the party election last April.

The Bagan Pinang by-election was made following the death of BN’s Azman Mohammad Noor on Sept 4. In March last year, Azman defeated Ramli Ismail of PAS by some 2,000 votes.

Erosion of support for PAS

Selangor PAS commissioner Datuk Dr Hasan Mohamed Ali's controversial statements on the state government's Select Committee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat) has been seen as out of line with the spirit of Pakatan Rakyat.

Hasan Mohamed Ali

He repeatedly makes comments that undermine Pakatan and the party was ready to pull out of PR in Selangor if all its elected representatives agreed.

The proposal for restrictions on the sale of alcohol in Selangor and the stand over issues concerning the donation of sacrificial cows, purchased by Selangor State Development Corporation companies, to mosques in the Bandar Tun Razak constituency, had been seen as attempting to undermine the cohesiveness of the Selangor PR government.

After the opposition won Selangor in the 2008 general election, Hasan had reportedly discussed the possibility of a pact with the BN's Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, the former Selangor Menteri Besar.

Clearly, such decisions have been seen as to help Umno to stage a Perak-like coup d'état.

If no measures have been taken by opposition, surely Selangor will be back in BN's fold and PAS can be assured of the erosion of support in the next election.

Is EGM a zero-sum game for Ong Tee Keat?

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said, the MCA’s EGM is aimed at solving woes besieging the MCA, and not meant to rekindle issues; to solve the party’s internal crisis, and not destroy the party.

MCA will hold an EGM on Oct 10 at 10 am in the wake of the expulsion of its deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek by the presidential council for tarnishing the party's image over a sex video scandal.

The winner takes it all and the loser has to fall

Dramatically, just at last when the MCA seemed all set to hold its EGM, in the wake of the expulsion of Dr Chua, the party central committee decided to suspend him for four years with immediate effect, revising the presidential council’s decision on Aug 26 of sacking him.

One wonders what will happen, should MCA truly concerned about the party's image over a sex video scandal, the party should have question who the culprits are behind the sex video scandal and serious action be taken against them for well planned tarnishing MCA's image.

Strategically, the sex video scandal is an immoral way of MCA to topple democratically elected Dr Chua. It’s a dirty war against the political rival by becoming prick master in planning and shooting the sex video.

By far, it is not only a dirty trick, but instead illegal and immoral method of removing rivals by invading personal privacy.

Typically, it is an accepted norm as well as social categories in Chinese society that the able man has an official wife and one or more concubines.

Why accepted norms are sometimes abandoned in favor of contradictory norms especially political interest of the unable party leader?

Ironically, the predomination of the politics of survival forced rival to become involved in calling the EGM. Politically, the leaders of MCA should have been battled it out in a respected professional way.

Today, most of the MCA members are aware that MCA should be the only party fighting to safeguard their political interest as what UMNO is for the Malay in the BN. How can MCA justify it?

Failing this, most of the MCA members think that it would be better; both for the future of MCA as well as the Chinese, MCA members should be looking for a different kind of leader that shall deliver the goods rather than personal benefit to remain as the president.

Politically, many foresee EGM is more or less a zero-sum game for MCA. The winner takes it all and the loser has to fall.

The question remains: Can MCA regained its strength and emerges stronger after EGM?

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Samy behaving selfishly and is a liability to BN

To Former premier Dr Mahathir, although Samy Vellu was the chosen leader winning the party elections last week, but he is a liability to BN.


Samy Vellu

Mahathir said he could win party elections but would lose in general elections because the people would not support him.

He also criticized Samy Vellu for not playing a role to stop the building of temples without approval despite having promised to do so.

Mahathir said he was concerned that support for BN would decline in the coming elections because Samy Vellu continued to helm MIC.

The former premier said the 73-year-old MIC president should relinquish his post for his party's failure in the last elections, where Samy Vellu was also defeated in his parliamentary stronghold of Sungai Siput.

Mahathir said he also strove to get MIC candidates supported by the Malays. Without support from Umno members and the other Malays, MIC could not win. So that's is my service to MIC.

The questions arise: Is Samy behaving selfishly and against the spirit of BN?

Bagan Pinang is a battleground between BN and PAS

In a political environment that some say is the worst for BN since Permatang Pasir, Bagan Pinang has emerged as a good battleground for BN to take revenge.

Azman Mohd Noor

The death of the Barisan Nasional’s Bagan Pinang state assemblyman Azman Mohd Noor in Negeri Sembilan yesterday once again triggers the ninth by-election after the 12th general election.

It is interesting to see the opposition reactions and particularly how far will BN take the revenge? Azman Mohd Noor died of blood infection at the Seremban Specialist Centre at 3.30pm yesterday.

The seat is considered a BN stronghold. Azman, who was Telok Kemang Umno vice-chief, won the seat in the last general election with a majority of 2,333 votes, beating PAS candidate Ramli Ismail, who got 4,097 votes.

Bagan Pinang, located in the Teluk Kemang parliamentary seat in Port Dickson is a Malay-Muslim majority seat in which voters from the community make up 66 per cent of the electorate.

Over 10 per cent of voters are Chinese while Indians make up an unusually high percentage at 19.9 per cent.

Stern action against cow head protestors is most welcome

In our multi-racial and multi-religious, Hindus consider the cow as a sacred animal and the only path forward is through mutual respect.

Undeniably, cow head protestors had violated the laws under the Sedition Act. The irresponsible parties should not provoke racial sentiments because it goes against the concept of 1 Malaysia.

The protest sparked controversy when some of the participants brought along the decapitated head of a cow, then stamped and spat on the gaze.

Those responsible for bringing the head of a cow during the Aug 28 protest at the Selangor state secretariat building had offending others and stern action taken against the culprits according to the law is most welcome.