When will Anwar ever learn?
April 13, 2011
FMT LETTER
From Rakyat Tulen, via e-mail
I’m not talking about his private life. I’m talking about his leadership style. By putting up so many candidates in the Sarawak elections, many of whom are hopeless, PKR is doing damage to the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
DAP and PAS are doing much better in the campaign thus far. The record breaking, huge crowds at the main towns are the work of DAP. Anwar just went and spoke.
PKR’s stars like Baru Bian in Bakalelan and Nicholas Bawin in Batang Ai are strong leaders in their own right. They are credible Dayak leaders from earlier parties like SNAP and PBDS.
PKR only gave them the platform to contest after SNAP and PBDS were “deregistered” by the BN-controlled Registrar of Societies.
When will Anwar learn that he and his henchmen Azmin Ali and Tian Chua cannot go around talking down to people?. Sarawakians are a proud lot. They do not like to be told what to do.
Dictator Taib Mahmud too, does not like it when Najib and Muhyddin told him to step down. Sarawakians prefer to throw out Taib Mahmud themselves. There is no need for the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister to interfere. Sarawakians know what to do.
But Anwar does not know what to do. He is making the same blunder that he has made with PKR in Sabah. He chose the wrong leaders for the wrong reasons. Half of PKR’s Sabah leaders have left the party. The remaining half are at each other’s throats.
Anwar severely misjudged the politics of Sabah when he put a controversial, born loser Ansari Abdullah to contest in the Batu Sapi by-election last October.
PKR members walked out of the Pakatan gathering in protest after Anwar announced Ansari’s candidacy, followed by a humiliating boxing match at the Sandakan airport.
Along the way, Anwar burned his bridges with local party SAPP, the one and only party that left the BN government to help Anwar.
Anwar is creating enemies of friends everywhere. DAP in Sarawak, SNAP, SAPP, Hindraf, NGOs, MCLM, Movement for Change Sarawak and many other groups.
Pakatan to form the next government will need to rally more people from a bigger spectrum to take on the BN. What Anwar and his henchmen are doing is to drive away people who could help him become Prime Minister.
Are Azmin and Tian Chua and Anwar’s inner circle worried that more people will share their power when they form the next government? When will Anwar ever learn?
3 comments:
I think it's just a temporary measure and teething process. Whats the main focus here is of making in roads in Sarawak.
By the look of it, the 2008 history is happening here again whereby the 'Opposition Ceramahs'have been gaining huge support from the people while the 'BN Ceramahs'have been faced with a huge blow of nearly loss of support from the people.
Seems to me there's hope for change in Sarawak, something that i never thought would happen.
I hope so. I think the West should not interfere in the daily mechanism of the East. The Sabahan and Sarawakian leaders know best on how to best serve their people - at least at this point.
Very well said Crankster, the problem that Sabahans and Sarawakians are getting very iritated about is the fact that the Peninsular politics is interfering in their affairs.
One must understand that Sabah & Sarawak has her own culture & unity which is very different from Peninsular.
The Muslims & Christians there live within the same culture, traditions and language and it's common to see both religions in one family and many of them do not convert to Islam to marry a Muslim.
Both Christianity and Islam are One and In Peace in both states. This is something that Muslims in the Peninsular must stay out! The more they interfere, the more BN will lose out.
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