The 66th UMNO General Assembly is in full-swing but it is only a re-enactment of last year’s 65th UMNO General Assembly “drama”.
At the end of the 65th UMNO General Assembly last December, I posed
the question: “Who lied – Najib/Muhyiddin or Chua Soi Lek? Or all
three?”
Although the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak will only be
delivering his UMNO Presidential address tomorrow and his winding-up
speech on Friday, one does not have to be prescient to know it will be
equally valid and pertinent to pose this same question at the end of the
66th UMNO General Assembly.
The Deputy Prime Minister and UMNO Deputy President, Tan Sri
Muhyiddin Yassin, has already started the ball rolling for the
re-enactment of this “drama” last year of whether “Who lied –
Najib/Muhyiddin or Chua Soi Lek? Or all three?”
Last night at the opening of the UMNO Youth, Wanita and Puteri
Assemblies, Muhyiddin dismissed PAS’ Islamic State goal as “a
daydream”.
But this is the very exact opposite of what the MCA President Datuk
Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek is warning the Malaysian Chinese and non-Muslims
up and down the country of “a point of no return” for the PAS agenda of
an Islamic state if Pakatan Rakyat wins Putrajaya in the 13th general
election!
This is a vindication of my thesis that one important difference
between the Pakatan Rakyat and the Barisan Nasional is that the Pakatan
Rakyat coalition practises the politics of “Unite and Rule” as distinct
from the traditional but divisive and destructive politics of “Divide
and Rule” of UMNO/BN, polarising instead of uniting Malaysians along
racial and religious lines.
Through the politics of lies, falsehoods and fear, UMNO/Barisan
Nasional parties spread different and conflicting messages among
different racial and religious groups, sowing the seeds of suspicion,
distrust and even hatred, which is totally against the task of Malaysian
nation-building.
Muhyiddin has proved himself to be a quite a political chameleon in
the past 48 hours – invoking the image of a moderate on Tuesday night
when closing the International Forum 2012 on war and conflict in
conjunction with Umno’s 66th General Assembly, exhorting the virtues of
“moderation and fairness to all”, but donning the garb of a racialist
24 hours later when opening the UMNO Youth, Wanita and Puteri
Assemblies.
Malaysians find Muhyiddin “a bit rich” when he launched an attack on
the Pakatan Rakyat parties, labelling DAP for instance as “racists” and
“chauvinists” when DAP leaders publicly declared their full support of
the 1Malaysia concept of Malaysians regarding themselves as Malaysian
first and their race, religion, geography and socio-economic status
second while the country will not forget Muhyiddin’s defiant declaration
of being “Malay first, Malaysian second”!
However, I must admit that up to now, Muhyiddin has yet to outdo his
mischief and venom at last year’s UMNO General Assembly where he made
history as the only Deputy Prime Minister in the world caught telling a
bare-faced lie while playing the race card when he falsely accused the
DAP of being anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Malay Rulers, even telling
the lie that the DAP’s agenda is to establish a Republic in Malaysia.
There was completely silence from Muhyiddin when I challenged him to
substantiate his allegation that the DAP wanted to abolish the
constitutional monarchy and establish a Republic.
But the day is still young for the 66th UMNO General Assemblies and
we have still to see who are the UMNO leaders who will stand out this
time in making the DAP a “whipping boy” with all sorts of groundless and
even seditious allegations and lies against the DAP – that the DAP is
anti-Malay, anti-Islam, anti-Malay Rulers and “agents of
Christianisation” to bring about a “Christian Malaysia”.
Najib has often said that UMNO must change or UMNO will be changed.
Will the speeches of UMNO leaders and delegates at the 66th UMNO
General Assembly show that UMNO is incapable of change on its own and
that it must be changed by the voters by giving UMNO an opportunity to
play the role of a loyal and responsible Opposition in the Federal
Parliament after the 13GE?
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