Perhaps the best and most highly obvious act of Barisan Nasional’s act of desperation to win the 13th GE is for Raja Nong Chik to go for broke in the constituency of Lembah Pantai against incumbent Nurul Izzah Anwar.
Toppling Nurul, to Nong Chik, must be equivalent to ousting Anwar from the arena of Malaysian politics as Nurul is now touted as to possibly become the nation’s first woman prime minister if everything goes according to form.
The Mahathir and Razak dynasty is being slowly and steadily eclipsed by the rise to take over the full reins of power by the Anwar dynasty and Nong Chik has most likely failed to realize what he is really up against in his bid to become Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai.
While Nong Chik’s reasons for wanting to contest in this constituency is perfectly understandable, that “I got married here, my children were born here and my daughter got married here,” makes sense in a sense, he will need to provide more valid reasons in order to win here.
While Nong Chik has long prior to the run up to the 13th GE began his moves to take control of Lembah Pantai by ensuring that his arch-rival for the seat, Sharizat Jalil, was pushed out of contention, and has orchestrated government machinery to assert his hold on the constituency, the moves have been carefully watched and monitored by constituents.
But the biggest fault of Nong Chik, admitted to by a growing number of voters in the area, is that unlike Nurul Izzah, who comes across as a person who goes to the ground to walk the talk, Nong Chik’s ploy’s are seen as mischievous and he fails miserably the credibility test.
Exposing the “modus operandi” of Nong Chik
The underhanded manner in which he is using as his ‘modus operandi’ for trying to wrest Lembah Pantai back into the BN-UMNO fold is not being realized by some people in Lembah Pantai as ploys used by Nong Chik is usually sly and cunning.
He is attempting to pull wool over the people’s eyes and hoodwink them that he cares for them and has been busy currying favor especially with the Indian segment of Lembah Pantai as they are currently the fence-sitters who he thinks may tip the balance of votes in his favor.
But if Sharizat is best remembered by Lembah Pantai constituents for her sheer arrogance and insensitivities and the corruption of her household in the National Feedlot Corporation fiasco, Nong Chik also comes across as being equally dubious in nature.
When it was disclosed by Nong Chik that Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur or Kuala Lumpur City Hall is offering low cost housing loans to low income earners from a funding of up to RM1.5 billion from the EPF it was viewed with horror and fear by Malaysians fearing over the safety of their retirement funds in the EPF.
This was when Malaysians realized the sly and cunning nature of Nong Chik in seeking to look good to people at whatever cost as the savings stored in the EPF became the scapegoat of Nong Chik and the federal government in their bid to try and fulfill promises of housing the poor.
This is the way and manner of Nong Chik in securing votes for himself and BN, by engaging in risky and bad ploys. It is anyone’s guess what else is on his mind, as now he is hell-bent on trying to evict Nurul Izzah from the post of MP of Lembah Pantai.
Nong Chik however will be well advised to first take a good look at his backyard as minister of federal territories and urban well-being as the state of his portfolio has been neglected to the extent urban poverty in the federal territory of Kuala Lumpur has escalated to alarming levels.
Other questionable dealings by Nong Chik
Those in cahoots with the real character and nature of Nong Chik, those in the know of his wheeling’s and dealings, have come forward despite the fear and risk of reprisal, to allege that he was actually a “prominent shareholder” of an offshore company called RZA International Corporation which has made investments that were sanctioned by the BN government but deemed as questionable by others.
While Nong Chik has gone on board to vehemently deny these allegations by stating that the instructions were given by his father and that he has no links whatsoever with RZA International Corporation, others allege that his father was running the company as the man up front for him.
When the issue began to heat up and create and stir controversy, he took the opportunity to ask his father to wind up the company and its dubious activity and the position of becoming a federal cabinet member was alternatively arranged in place for him.
It is understandable why Nong Chik is useful to BN-UMNO. He has the kind of qualities and ways and means which fits in well with their grand scheme of things to control and manipulate the reins of power to ensure that BN-UMNO is able to hold sway over the country as the governing elite.
In addition, further aspersions were cast on the integrity and ways of Nong Chik when it was claimed that the mansion in which he resides in the fashionable area of Taman Tun Dr Ismail is said to be valued between RM15 to RM 18 million.
While Nong Chik has refuted all allegations of impropriety in his wheeling’s and dealings, by saying that the home he resides in was purchased ten years ago and to which he conveniently states that he has no knowledge of its real worth, the people of Lembah Pantai see it as another case similar to former Selangor Chief Minister, Khir Toyo’s RM24 million palatial home.
Nong Chik states further that the mansion was purchased using funds obtained by him as a successful businessman and also from his father whom he states was also a prosperous businessman.
While he is allowed room to have his say and defend his way and manner of conducting business and governance, the constituents have warmed up comfortably to Nurul Izzah and want to see to it that the power to govern in this constituency is reinforced by her and not to the likes of people like Sharizat and Nong Chik.
BN-UMNO’s Sharizat and Nong Chik unfortunately lack not only credibility but focus, and they are seen as BN leaders who are self-seeking and self-serving, for whom many Malaysians are turned off with as they have had enough of those that aim to profit at the expense of the rakyat.
Nurul Izzah set to govern for many more years to come
Nurul Izzah has become a shining star among the people of Lembah Pantai for her ability to “walk the talk” and go to the ground despite the odds stacked against her by the likes of people from BN-UMNO like Nong Chik and Sharizat.
Despite her youth, she displays excellent tact and wisdom and people skills like her father, the illustrious Anwar Ibrahim, and is unafraid to roll up her sleeves and go to the ground to assist the people with hard work and industry.
The same cannot be said for Nong Chik as his greatest sweat exuded is to plant a few trees dressed in his trademark glittering orange garb and most of the time be seen sitting at ease and looking pretty in Bangsar and Brickfields garlanded by the Indian crowd.
If Nong Chik hopes and aspires to have any impact or influence on the people of Lembah Pantai he should first learn to do things in a right and proper manner and not resort to cunning and sly tactics to earn the people’s favor.
But why many people in Lembah Pantai is up against him is for the way he lacks the willingness to subscribe to a democratic code of ethics as his conduct and behavior in trying to go about disregarding and disrespecting the youthful Nurul Izzah is viewed with disgust and displeasure by a growing many people.
Nurul Izzah is expected to triumph and prevail with consummate and relative ease in the upcoming 13th GE against any rival pitted against her because she has earned the respect and admiration of the people and this why there should be no change to the status quo on Lembah Pantai for a good many more years to come.
Malaysia Chronicle
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Nong Chik a pushover for Nurul: Lembah Pantai to become PR stronghold
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Datuk Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin openly challenged Nurul Izzah after the latter had filed a judicial review against the Election Commision (EC) listing 4,637 voters with incomplete addresses, 133 voters who were not Lembah Pantai residents, and three dead voters, totalling 4,773 dubious names.
ReplyDeleteNong Chik state that perhaps he is in the list too. The total represented 7 percent, out of 71,000 voters registered on the Lembah pantai electoral roll gazetted in the third quarter of 2012.
ReplyDelete"Many of these residents have either moved out or did not update their current address. If she (Nurul Izzah) is saying that the Barisan Nasional put all these 4,600 phantom voters in the area just to win in its parliamentary seat, my question is, why now?"
ReplyDelete"PKR opponent as being "only good at criticising but fails to provide solutions". Nong Chik
Pertandingan 3 penjuru ni pasti sengit dengan penampilan pemimpin politik terkenal dari parti masing-masing.apapun, selamat berjuang!
ReplyDeleteWithin Pakatan Rakyat the concept of youth is unsurprisingly expressed in ways as diverse as the parties of the dysfunctional coalition. Clever DAP packages it as irreverence and rebellion, best summed up by their slick but ultimately meaningless "Ubah Rocket Style" video. They also make voting for them look like youthful defiance, which, as we shall discuss later, is simply not true.
ReplyDeletePAS promised us a youth revolution in the party two years ago but is still run by a gerontocracy. At last year's Muktamar its youth division asserted itself by moving a motion against K-pop on the grounds it is "excessive entertainment". We wonder if they told that to the DAP youth singing along to Ubah Rocket Style?
ReplyDeleteThere is also the fact that PAS in Kelantan issues summonses to young people for, of all things, giving one's girlfriend a piggy-back. So much for being tolerant of youthful exuberance.
ReplyDeleteAt PKR youth was embodied by the ambitions of Azmin Ali, the prime offender in the damaging civil war in Selangor; Rafizi Ramli, an early victim of that war; and Nurul Izzah Anwar, the dynastic successor to Anwar who has squandered her career prospects by offending anyone and everyone from the police to Muslim scholars.
ReplyDeleteSo when it comes to youth, as with everything else, PKR-DAP-PKR don't have much in common but they are united by one deceitful construct: The notion that voting for them is somehow the right thing for the young to do, because Pakatan MPs are the outsiders - even underdogs - and therefore, electing them is a virtuous act.
ReplyDeleteNothing could be further from the truth. As its seat allocation process proved, there has been no real generational shift within Pakatan. Aging party hacks desperately cling to their seats or use their status to settle disputes, as Lim Kit Siang, 72, proved in Gelang Patah.
ReplyDeleteThe real way to honestly engage youth is to have workable measures to help young people through tertiary education and into the workforce and then to stop pretending they want anything different from all right-minded Malaysians: A stable economy, jobs, healthcare, tolerance, moderation – the basics.
ReplyDeleteDatuk Seri Najib Razak understands this. That's why when he is addressing young people he doesn't gesture to the crowd like a rock star (Anwar's favourite motivational trick before his adoring fans). Najib articulates exactly the same ideas to an 18-year-old as he would to a 50-year-old, in a serious and easy to understand way.
ReplyDeleteThe real act of youthful defiance at GE13 would be to vote for the party that is reforming itself after 55 years in power; the party that is kicking out old candidates in favour of new ideas; and doesn't patronise young people along the way. That means a vote for BN.
ReplyDeletePANASS !!! 4 KETUA CABANG PKR SABAH KELUAR PARTI MASUK UMNO !!
ReplyDeleteParti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Sabah hampir lumpuh sepenuhnya hari ini(semalam) apabila ketua empat cabang utamanya mengumumkan keluar parti dan menyertai UMNO.
Cabang-cabang berkenaan adalah Sandakan di bawah Mazhary Nasir, Kota Belud (Saidil Simoi), Kalabakan (Irianshah Yunus), Putatan (Abdul Zainal Atin dan timbalannya, Zainuddin Hassan).
Mereka menyerahkan borang penyertaan kepada Setiausaha UMNO Sabah, Datuk Yahya Hussin.
Mazhary yang mengetuai kumpulan itu berkata, beliau dan rakan-rakannya meninggalkan PKR kerana mereka tidak boleh membuat sebarang keputusan secara bersendirian apabila semuanya dikawal sepenuhnya oleh PKR pusat dan Anwar Ibrahim.
“Datuk Seri Anwar bukan apa-apa selain seorang pemidato hebat yang boleh buat sesiapa sahaja percaya kepada cakap-cakapnya,” jelas beliau di Kota Kinabalu hari ini.
Hanya tinggal 10 hari sebelum Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 berlangsung dan perkembangan terbaru ini pastinya merencatkan usaha pembangkang untuk memenangi negeri itu.
Sabah disifatkan Pengerusi Barisan Nasional (BN), Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak sebagai simpanan tetap BN.
Ini kerana rakyat negeri itu secara berterusan memberikan sokongan kepada BN dan secara konsisten menolak pembangkang.
27 ahli PKR Pasir Salak keluar parti masuk Umno
ReplyDeletePASIR SALAK: Seramai 27 anggota Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) dari ranting Parit 4A di Kampung Sungai Manik Lama Kanan di sini keluar dari parti itu untuk menyertai Umno.
Wakil kumpulan itu, Mohd Tarmizi Abu Bakar menyerahkan borang keanggotaan menyertai Umno kepada Ketua Umno bahagian Pasir Salak, Datuk Tajuddin Abdul Rahman dalam satu majlis malam tadi.
Mohd Tarmizi berkata mereka menyertai PKR selama tiga tahun dan mengambil keputusan keluar dari parti itu kerana hilang keyakinan terhadap kepimpinan parti.
"Kami keluar parti atas kerelaan kami sendiri dan bukan dipaksa oleh mana-mana pihak dan kami yakin parti Umno sahaja yang boleh membela nasib orang Melayu," katanya kepada pemberita.
Sebelum ini seramai 402 anggota PKR dari kawasan berkenaan keluar dan menyertai Umno.
Sementara itu Tajuddin berkata ramai lagi anggota PKR dijangka menyertai Umno dalam tempoh terdekat yang sekali gus membuktikan sokongan kepada PKR di Pasir Salak semakin merosot.
PKR Makin Parah… 200 Ahli Cabang Libaran, Sandakan & Batu Sapi Keluar Parti Sokong BN
ReplyDeleteSANDAKAN, 26 April – Dua ratus anggota PKR cabang Libaran, Sandakan dan Batu Sapi bertindak keluar parti dan menyatakan sokongan kepada Barisan Nasional (BN).
Mereka diketuai Ketua Penerangan Cabang PKR Libaran Mohd Mirudin bersama Ahli Jawatankuasanya (AJK) Lee Chi Ui, AJK cabang PKR Sandakan Isnain Amat dan AJK cabang PKR Batu Sapi Tahir Husin.
Mereka berkata tindakan keluar parti dibuat berikutan telah hilang kepercayaan terhadap pucuk pimpinan PKR negeri dan pusat kerana mendakwa tidak berlaku adil.
“Tiada keadilan dalam PKR, kami di peringkat akar umbi dibohongi serta dijanjikan termasuk berhubung pemilihan calon untuk bertanding pada pilihan raya umum ke-13 (PRU13) ini.
“Pemimpin PKR Sabah memberikan macam-macam janji tetapi pada saat akhir penentuan calon PKR di Sabah termasuk di Libaran, Batu Sapi dan Sandakan yang dibuat oleh pucuk pimpinan pusat tunggang terbalik. Kami kecewa dan terasa dianiaya,” kata Mohd dalam perjumpaan dengan Pengerusi BN Sabah Datuk Seri Musa Aman di sini, malam tadi.
Isnain pula berkata kira-kira 400 lagi anggota PKR dari tiga cabang itu akan keluar parti kerana hilang kepercayaan dengan pucuk pimpinan PKR yang tidak mempunyai hala tuju dalam memperjuangkan masa depan rakyat negara ini terutama di negeri Sabah.
Sementara itu, Musa menyifatkan tindakan anggota PKR itu menunjukkan rakyat sedar bahawa BN mempunyai kepimpinan berwibawa dan mempunyai rekod yang baik dalam memerintah negara.
Beliau berkata mereka yakin dengan kepimpinan BN diketuai Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan manifesto BN untuk PRU13 ini menambahkan lagi keyakinan itu.
Berbeza dengan parti pembangkang yang tidak mempunyai perancangan dan persefahaman di kalangan mereka, bergaduh sesama sendiri dan berlaku tidak adil termasuk kepada anggota mereka, katanya.
Kemenangan akan berpihak kepada yang layak menang. Kepada para pengundi kalau rasa serba salah berdoalah dan minta petunjuk supaya kita lebih yakin dengan pilihan yg dibuat.
ReplyDeleteHarap tidak akan timbul ketegangan sesama sendiri hanya sebab berlainan fahaman politik. Kekalkan perpaduan antara kaum demi kesejahteraan negara.
ReplyDeleteSemua pengundi adalah saudara,kawan,rakan dan taulan. Tapi undi ku tetap untuk BN.
ReplyDeleteBN good
BN better
BN best
BN is the best choice
PR-Lain kali saja lah okey.Jangan marah ya.
Kenyataan terbuka orang nombor dua DAP Johor Norman Fernandez yang mahukan pengundi tidak memilih Pas dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 (PRU13) 5 Mei ini jelas membayangkan tiada perfahaman antara dua rakan sekutu dalam pakatan pembangkang.
ReplyDeleteNaib Presiden UMNO, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein berkata, belumpun masuk hari pengundian, perbezaan ideologi antara mereka kian jelas ketara menunjukkan masing-masing hanya mahukan kuasa dan jawatan semata-mata.
ReplyDelete“Seorang pemimpin tertinggi DAP (Lim Kit Siang) yang tidak pernah memberi sumbangan langsung kepada kita di Johor bertanding di sini dan dalam masa yang sama Timbalan Pengerusi DAP Johor tiada persefahaman (dengan Pas dalam soal itu).
ReplyDelete“Jadi saya nak tanya pendirian Lim Kit Siang dengan calon Pas Gelang Patah (Salahuddin Ayub) sendiri apakah sebenarnya hubungan antara mereka.
ReplyDelete“Bagaimana nak bangunkan kawasan kerana belum pun buang undi timbalannya (Norman) kata tidak boleh kerjasama dengan Pas. Bagaimana Kit Siang nak kerjasama dengan Salahuddin di Gelang Patah,” katanya.
ReplyDeleteSeperti yang dijangka ramai sebelum ini, Lembah Pantai di antara kerusi panas pada Pilihan Raya Umum (PRU) ke-13 ini bakal menyaksikan Ketua UMNO Bahagian Lembah Pantai, Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin diletakkan sebagai calon Barisan Nasional (BN) yang bakal berdepan dengan calon PKR, Nurul Izzah Anwar.
ReplyDeleteTidak hairanlah jika sebelum ini, Nurul Izzah sering menyerang Raja Nong Chik bagi menyemai perasaan ‘benci’ di hati pengundi di parlimen tersebut terhadap calon BN.
ReplyDeleteUjar Nong Chik, beliau sama sekali tidak gentar berhadapan dengan Nurul Izzah malah berkeyakinan penuh bahawa parlimen ini bakal kembali ke tangan BN.
ReplyDeleteRamai pengundi di sini tahu, sejak PKR menang di sini, Nurul Izzah begitu jarang mendekati pengundi. Tetapi apabila PRU sudah semakin hampir dia mula berkempen dan menuduh UMNO dan BN dengan cerita-cerita buruk termasuklah isu yang kerap dibangkitnya iaitu pengundi hantu.
ReplyDeleteIsu ini secara tidak langsung menggambarkan bahawa Nurul Izzah memang tidak buat kerja kerana dakwaannya ini sama sekali tidak berasas… Kononnya terdapat 4,000 pengundi hantu di Parlimen ini.
ReplyDeleteSekiranya kita lihat apa yang telah dikemukakan oleh Nurul Izzah kepada SPR, senarai tersebut adalah penduduk-penduduk yang tinggal di kawasan setinggan yang telahpun berpindah. Alamat mereka memang tidak wujud lagi. Saya tidak fahamlah samada Nurul Izzah memang tidak faham perkara ini atau sengaja buat tidak faham.
ReplyDeleteDia terus memomokkan pengundi di Parlimen ini dengan isu pengundi hantu. Isu ini tidak relevan dan adalah lebih baik membela nasib rakyat dari terus memburukkan UMNO dan BN,”
ReplyDeleteSelain itu, Nong Chik turut melahirkan rasa terima kasih kepada pucuk pimpinan parti kerana memberi kepercayaan kepadanya untuk berjuang di Parlimen Lemban Pantai.
ReplyDeleteSaya berkeyakinan penuh, BN akan kembali di Lembah Pantai bukan sahaja melalui kekuatan manifesto atau akujanji yang dibentangkan baru-baru ini tetapi kerana asas-asas yang telah dilakukan selama ini walaupun BN adalah pembangkang di sini.
ReplyDeleteKita sentiasa memperjuang dan membela nasib rakyat di sini walaupun kita tewas pada PRU lalu. Namun itu bukan bererti kita harus berhenti membela nasib rakyat.
ReplyDeleteTidak kira kita kalah atau menang, BN akan terus memperjuangkan nasib rakyat tanpa ada sebarang pengecualian. Saya akan terus mengekalkan perkhidmatan yang baik di Lembah Pantai,” ujarnya lagi
ReplyDeleteAs long as they are still with the people, the people will still give support.
ReplyDeleteRakyat di Lembah Pantai akan menentukan nasib masing-msing.
ReplyDeleteTidak salah untuk memberi peluang kepada calon yang berbakat walau tiada hasil perjuangannya sebelum ini.
ReplyDeleteRaakyat semakin terima pembangkang sebab apa? Mungkin BN tidak membuktikan diri tetapi semakin banyak kelemahannya khas isu rasuah. NFC salah satu contoh yang terbaik.
ReplyDeleteLembah Pantai Umno division leader Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin has filed a lawsuit against Lembah Pantai Member of Parliament Nurul Izzah Anwar and two others for allegedly defaming him over the purchase of land in Bukit Kiara.
ReplyDeleteThe former Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister filed the suit at the Civil High Court registry last July 17 through Messrs. Raja Riza & Associates.
ReplyDeleteBesides Nurul Izzah, who is also Parti Keadilan Rakyat vice-president, Raja Nong Chik also named Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd, the owner of the Malaysiakini news portal, and Malaysiakini journalist, Lu Wei Hoong, as defendants.
ReplyDeleteThe writ of the summons was made available to the media today.
Lawyer M.Reza Hassan, who is representing Raja Nong Chik, said the case had been fixed for case management on Aug 19 before High Court Judge Datin Yeoh Wee Siam.
ReplyDeleteIn the statement of claim, Raja Nong Chik, stated that Nurul Izzah had issued the false and defamatory statement on the land purchase at a media conference at Bangunan Bakti, Taman Tun Dr Ismail here a day before polling for the 13th general election was held.
ReplyDeleteHe claimed that the statement by Nurul Izzah was posted on the Malaysiakini website on the same day, which was May 4th this year.
ReplyDeleteRaja Nong Chik is seeking an injunction to stop the defendants, or their agents, from further publishing the alleged defamatory words against him.
ReplyDeleteHe is also seeking general and aggravated damages and an order for the defendants to publish an apology, as well as interests and costs.
ReplyDeleteRaja Nong Chik said that as a result of the publication of the statement, his reputation and dignity as a politician, former minister and senator had been tarnished.
ReplyDeleteIn the May 5 general election, Nurul Izzah defeated Raja Nong Chik for the Lembah Pantai parliamentary seat with a majority of 1,847 votes.
ReplyDelete