Rice and goodies with the 1 Malaysia logo were distributed from a truck at the Pandamaran wet market yesterday morning, claims Klang DAP Candidate Charles Santiago.
“This is an act of buying votes and it is totally unethical for a political party to do so,” he said.
The truck which carried the caretaker government’s banners and pictures of the candidate contesting under the party, unloaded rice and other household groceries containing the 1Malaysia logo to the public.
“I will soon lodge a police report on this matter and will take up this matter to the Election Commission. If the EC does not take any action on this, it will reflect their support towards BN, Santiago told FMT.
“PM had earlier pledged for a clean and fair elections and I don’t see the pledge being kept,” he added.
Santiago was referring to Najib Tun Razak signing the Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) Election Integrity Pledge. Najib declared that he would observe principles of truth, integrity, ethical conduct and accountability, including not accepting or giving bribes or being involved in any way in corrupt practices.
Santiago, who is also the incumbent of the Klang parliamentary seat, faces MCA candidate Teh Kim Poo this time around. In the 2008 election, Santiago won with a majority of 17, 701 votes. -FMT
Thursday, May 2, 2013
DAP candidate sees red over 1M’sia rice
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Despite the DAP's best efforts ahead of GE13 to portray itself as multicultural, it remains a Chinese-dominated party where Malays and Indian members find little acceptance.
ReplyDeleteSo while the party continues to criticise PAS' hudud agenda, the DAP is just as guilty of being single-minded when it comes to race and interlinked issues. In fact, the party often seems the Chinese mirror image of PAS.
ReplyDeleteFrom its shabby treatment of former vice-president Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim, to the fiasco over its disputed Central Executive Committee (CEC) election, the DAP has ridden roughshod over the rights of its non-Chinese members.
ReplyDeleteTunku Aziz was the senior-most Malay leader of the DAP – joining in 2008 as vice-chairman – till he was forced to leave last year by the Lim dynasty for speaking his mind against Bersih 3.0. Bereft of a senior Malay face, the DAP has since struggled to attract voters from the majority community.
ReplyDeleteIts credibility was further damaged by its internal election last December where DAP delegates were to elect 20 leaders into the party's top decision-making body, the CEC. After only Chinese members were 'elected' to the CEC, it was discovered that the vote count had been fudged. Despite this blot on its reputation, the DAP has so far refused to hold a fresh internal election in a transparent manner. Again, while choosing candidates for GE13, the DAP leadership has gone to town claiming that it has fielded non-Chinese candidates.
ReplyDeleteBut on closer scrutiny, it turns out that the DAP has fielded these non-Chinese candidates only in Malay strongholds where they stand no chance. Chinese candidates, meanwhile, have got the safe Chinese-majority constituencies, where they know they can win.
ReplyDeleteThe party is therefore aware of where its core support lies, and the Lim dynasty hypocritically manipulates it, while claiming to everyone else that it is a multi-ethnic party. The DAP's racist underpinnings were exposed in 2011 when two prominent DAP leaders in Perak were caught making racist comments against Indians.
ReplyDeleteFirst Nga Kor Ming, the DAP Perak secretary, called Perak Mentri Besar Dr. Zambry Abdul Kadir a "metallic black person". This was in September 2011 at a DAP ceramah, a video clip of which surfaced later. As if that wasn't enough, he followed it up by calling Dr. Zambry a 'haram jadah' or bastard. And then in December 2011, his cousin Ngeh Koo Kam, the party's Perak chairman, tweeted that Indians are "Not as stupid as they think they are". The tweet was naturally removed from his twitter page later.
ReplyDeleteBoth these racist politicians tried to backtrack after people reacted in outrage, but their clumsy efforts only compounded their misery. Perhaps the more telling issue was DAP's response to the whole sordid affair.
ReplyDeleteThe party command remained uncharacteristically silent. Not a word from Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng, or even Karpal Singh. The trio that never tires of raising their voices against injustice, were apparently tongue-tied when the perpetrators were from their own party. As for Nga and Negh, they are now being fielded as DAP candidates in GE13.
ReplyDeleteSo despite the token presence of Karpal as the party's national chairman, the DAP continues to push its Chinese-first policies, while trying to convince sceptical Malay and Indian voters that it is somehow multi-racial.
ReplyDeleteJangan terpedaya kempen berunsur sukuan: Abd Ghapur
ReplyDeletePengerusi Barisan Nasional (BN) Kalabakan, Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh mengingatkan para pengundi kawasan Parlimen Kalabakan agar tidak mudah terpengaruh dengan calon tertentu yang sengaja menggunakan sentimen suku kaum ketika berkempen.
Sebaliknya beliau berkata pengundi perlu terus menyokong BN kerana parti berkenaan memperjuang dan membela kepentingan semua kaum dan bukan hanya menjaga kepentingan kaum tertentu.
"Sistem pemerintahan BN di negara ini bukan menjaga kaum tertentu sahaja tetapi ia meliputi semua rakyat tanpa mengira bangsa dan keturunan," katanya pada majlis penyampaian baucar bantuan kepada 100 ibu tunggal yang didaftarkan oleh Perkasa kawasan Kalabakan.
Menurut Abdul Ghapur sokongan pengundi semua kaum di kawasan Kalabakan penting bagi memastikan BN terus memenangi kerusi Parlimen Kalabakan sekali gus memperkukuhkan kedudukan BN untuk terus menerajui negara.
Justeru beliau meminta pengundi supaya membuat pilihan bijak dengan mengundi BN kerana parti itu tidak meminggirkan mana-mana kaum dan suku di negara ini.
Parlimen Kalabakan mempunyai 46,793 pengundi. Pada Pilihan Raya 2008, Abdul Ghapur menang tanpa bertanding namun pada PRU-13, Ahad ini beliau akan menghadapi pertandingan tujuh penjuru.
Abdul Ghapur akan ditentang Malvine Reyes calon STAR, Mohd Manuke (Bebas), Freddie Japat Anak Simol (Bebas), Usman Madeaming (PAS), Yahya Zainal (Bebas) dan Siamsir Borhan jugas (Bebas).
LIES & EMPTY PROMISES
ReplyDeleteFormer MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has hit out at the Opposition for making last-minute promises in a bid to garner Indian votes for the 13th general election.
DAP's announcing the party's so-called blueprint for the Indians clearly showed that Pakatan Rakyat, as a whole, was not interested in the community's well-being
“Why should only DAP come out with a separate blueprint for the Indians when it should be the Pakatan's task? This shows that the coalition is not sincere in helping the Indian community,” he added
Samy Vellu, who is the Special Envoy for Infrastructure for India and South Asia, said the fact that only DAP had “invented something out of thin air for the Indian community” reflected the double standards practised by the Opposition pact.
“This is not the right way. They have to be sincere in what they want to do for the Indians. Don't just come out with a last-minute plan to woo the Indians. The so-called blueprint by DAP for the Indians did not receive the support of the Pakatan leadership.
Samy Vellu said Barisan Nasional, under Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's leadership, has rolled out an action plan for the community, which is being implemented.
ANOTHER LIES & EMPTY PROMISES
ReplyDeleteTHE Barisan Nasional hit out at the DAP Gelang Patah Declaration as merely a copycat as most of the items listed have already been or are being implemented by BN.
It was also sceptical if the party would honour all the 14 promises in the declaration, as many of the Pakatan Rakyat promises made in 2008 were not fulfilled.
Speaking at a joint press conference by the Malaysian Chinese Association, the Malaysia Indian Congress and the People's Progressive Party (PPP), MCA Gelang Patah division chairman Jason Teoh questioned why it was called DAP Gelang Patah Declaration instead of Pakatan Rakyat Gelang Patah Declaration.
He said nothing about the welfare of Indians was mentioned in the PR's manifesto and Buku Jingga, and questioned the DAP whether the Indian community should refer to the declaration, the manifesto or the Buku Jingga.
"After the DAP Gelang Patah Declaration, will there be a different set of declaration for Kluang, Bakri, and Kulai?
"BN has done a lot for the Indian community, be it land approval for Hindu temples, Tamil schools, micro-credit scheme or study loans, the Indian community has never been left behind."
Present were MIC Gelang Patah division chairman S. Kanan and Johor PPP chairman Datuk Dr Siva Kumar.
Teoh also presented a RM5,000 cheque for SJK (T) Taman Tun Aminah partially damaged by a storm on Feb 22.
Kanan said nothing about the welfare of Indians was stated in both the PR manifesto and Buku Jingga, yet DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang made a lot of promises during his ceramah in the state lately. He said this was merely to cheat the Indian community.
"The Indian community in Gelang Patah does not welcome him to contest in the constituency. The MCA has done a good job in helping the Indian community. Lim is just parachuting here.
"For a DAP supremo like him, he should consider contesting against people like the prime minister."
Dr Siva criticised the first promise in the declaration, which was to resolve the problem of stateless Indians within 100 days of the PR administration.
He said the opposition could not even solve the problem in 100 days in Kedah, Penang and Selangor, and yet DAP wanted to make such promise in Johor.
"The declaration also states it wants to alienate land for existing Hindu temples.
"For his information, there are 28 Hindu temples in Gelang Patah alone, which is more than for other races.
"There are four Tamil schools which are more than sufficient for the constituency."
There are about 13,026 Indians in Gelang Patah, constituting about 12.4 per cent of the 104,496 voters.
Teoh is tipped to contest Lim in the 13th General Election.
In Putrajaya, MIC deputy president Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam described DAP's Gelang Patah manifesto for the Indian community as a copy of the government's existing development programme.
The human resources minister said the opposition party's manifesto to supposedly improve the socio-economic status of the Indian community was part of efforts and transformation plans carried out under the leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
"There's nothing new in the manifesto. Everything in it is already being taken care of by the government. We began working on the issues since 2009.
"We've seen results such as development in Tamil schools, education, job opportunities, skills and vocational training, efforts to increase income, issues on documentation and more."
ANOTHER LIES & EMPTY PROMISES
ReplyDeleteBN-SUPP candidate for Sibu Vincent Lau Lee Ming said he was upset when issues surrounding DAP’s promises arose in this election campaign.
Speaking at the SUPP ceramah at Market Road on Monday, he said he had even raised his voice in some ceramahs because he could become emotional when touching on the subject.
He said DAP had been stirring the people by repeatedly saying they wanted to lead in bringing change, which until today they had not been able to do.
“The people have been bullied and cheated. None of DAP’s promises have been fulfilled.”
On Pakatan Rakyat (PR), he said it was a loose pact formed by DAP, PKR and PAS, which had conflicting ideologies.
“How can the pact be trusted when they have been condemning each other?”
Recalling that DAP had been condemning PAS for wanting to build an Islamic state, he said the partnership came about because DAP knew that they could not achieve their ambitions alone.
“They know if they want to rule and grab power, they need PAS.”
This was unlike the BN coalition which was committed to building harmony, stability and prosperity through power sharing, he explained.
He thus hoped that Chinese voters would not waste their votes on the opposition this May 5 election because it would tantamount to giving up their progress and benefits.
“The DAP wants the support of the Chinese voters, yet, they cannot help their community.”
In his speech, SUPP Sibu branch chairman Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh said some youths had admitted that they had voted for DAP because they wanted to air their dissatisfactions and that the opposition had promised to bring change.
“But where is this change? The only change I can see is the Chinese community losing their political strength in the government after they voted for DAP,” said the Second Finance Minister and Minister of Local Government and Community Development.
“Change must come gradually, otherwise it will tilt the stability of a society,” he added.
Rakyat perlu memastikan keputusan Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13 (PRU-13) dibuat bersandarkan faktor menepati janji, mendukung harapan dan kebolehpercayaan, kata Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
ReplyDeletePerdana Menteri yang juga Pengerusi Barisan Nasional (BN) berkata, pengundi tidak harus memberikan ruang kepada mereka yang suka menabur janji, tidak berkelayakan, gemar menyebar fitnah, memanipulasi fakta serta meraih sokongan berasaskan kebencian dan perpecahan.
ReplyDeleteMengakui ada kalanya kerajaan terpaksa mengambil keputusan perit dalam sesetengah perkara, Najib menegaskan, ia perlu dalam melaksanakan amanah rakyat.
ReplyDelete“Dalam keadaan ini, kami tidak bertindak sebagai ahli politik populis, sebaliknya bertindak selepas mengkaji secara teliti kesan jangka panjang mengenai keputusan yang bakal diambil.
ReplyDelete“Ia bukan saja terhadap generasi hari ini tetapi generasi masa depan negara. Kami tidak rela mewariskan sebuah negara yang gagal kepada anak kita,” katanya dalam perutusan kepada rakyat Malaysia yang dikeluarkan Ibu Pejabat UMNO, semalam.
ReplyDeleteundi tetap rahsiah dan d tangan rakyat.
ReplyDeleteSerahkan kepada rakyat sendiri untuk menentukannya.
ReplyDeleteIf the EC does not take any action on this, it will reflect their support towards BN, Santiago told FMT.
ReplyDeleteEC harus mengambil tindakan yang wajar.
“This is an act of buying votes and it is totally unethical for a political party to do so,”
ReplyDeletePolitic Malaysia semakin sakit dan demam.
Why involve money to the politics?
ReplyDeletePolitik Malaysia tidak mudah mencapai 100% demokrasi.
ReplyDeleteCalon Barisan Nasional (BN) bagi kerusi Parlimen Rompin, Datuk Seri Dr Jamaludin Jarjis menyifatkan strategi kempen pembangkang pada Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13 (PRU-13) sebagai paling kotor dan penuh dengan provokasi.
ReplyDeleteBeliau yang juga Ahli Majlis Tertinggi UMNO berkata, berdasarkan maklumat yang diterimanya dari pembangkang sendiri, pihak pembangkang mencipta pelbagai provokasi yang bertujuan Umno dan Barisan Nasional (BN) akan dipersalahkan kelak.
ReplyDeleteBeliau berkata antara strategi pembangkang ialah mewujudkan kenyataan kononnya UMNO dan BN menghina pemimpin mereka, yang kemudian diuar-uarkan kepada orang ramai.
ReplyDelete"Kejadian menjatuhkan bendera dan membakar bendera turut dilakukan ahli pembangkang, lalu menuduh petugas BN yang melakukannya," katanya.
ReplyDeleteJamaludin selaku penyandang kerusi Parlimen Rompin berkata strategi itu dipercayai dirangka pihak atasan parti berkenaan, semata-mata mahu memenangi pilihan raya pada 5 Mei.
ReplyDelete"Sebagai contoh, mereka menulis kenyataan yang menghina parti mereka sendiri supaya orang ramai benci kepadaa Umno dan BN. Perbuatan menjatuh dan membakar bendera serta poster dilakukan oleh ahli parti pembangkang.
ReplyDelete"Saya ingin mengingatkan petugas jentera BN supaya berhati-hati dengan provokasi parti lawan kerana mereka tidak mampu lagi meraih sokongan rakyat," katanya.
ReplyDeleteBeliau berkata, pihak pembangkang kini terdesak kerana sokongan rakyat kepada Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak semakin meningkat.
ReplyDelete"Program transformasi yang dilakukan kerajaan BN kini berjaya membawa banyak perubahan dan pembaharuan kepada masyarakat.
"Pencapaian itu membuatkan pembangkang tidak mampu bersaing dan mereka bertindak menawarkan apa saja janji yang tidak munasabah," katanya.
The domestic sector has been solid and has been the anchor to drive our growth during this more challenging period
ReplyDeleteIn 2013, “global trade slowed down very significantly, and of course, that affected us because of the openness of our economy.
ReplyDeleteMalaysia cut its forecast for expansion this year to a range of 4.5 per cent to five per cent in August, from a previous prediction of as much as six per cent.
ReplyDeleteThe government has run annual budget deficits since the Asian financial crisis, with state spending exceeding revenue every year starting in 1998.
ReplyDeleteThe government’s financial position will improve from revenue collection, which has become more efficient, and the implementation of a value-added tax will also boost the revenue base
ReplyDeleteOn the risk of a Fitch rating cut for Malaysia, Zeti said she was “confident that the commitment by the government will demonstrate the potential for improvement in the government financial position, with a number of initiatives that will be announced in the budget.”
ReplyDeleteZeti was the first woman to become Malaysia’s central bank governor, initially in an acting capacity in 1998 when then-Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad imposed capital controls and pegged the ringgit during the Asian Financial Crisis
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ReplyDeleteThe central bank will only intervene to “maintain important market conditions” and not to defend the currency at any particular level, Zeti said, adding the currency market has been operating in an orderly manner even as she expects global currencies to experience volatility.
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