The Free Malaysia Today report by Anjulie Ngan “MCA anticipates cabinet reshuffle soon” today is double confirmation – of imminent Cabinet reshuffle but no imminent principled stand by MCA President Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai and Gerakan President Datuk Mah Siew Keong whose only concern is to get back into Cabinet at whatever cost.
Liow told the reporter that he anticipated Najib to have a cabinet reshuffle soon but he did not know exactly when – as this is up to Najib to decide.
But isn’t Liow, together with Mah, going to ask Najib to put on hold any Cabinet reshuffle as MCA and Gerakan will not be part of Barisan Nasional Cabinet until UMNO can give a solemn undertaking that it would not push for implementation of hudud law whether at federal or state level?
This is not just because of the Umno Selangor Assemblyman for Sungai Air Tawar Kamarol Zaki Abdul Malik’s motion in the Selangor State Assembly next week to push for the implementation of hudud.
Kamarol’s motion is just one of triple UMNO actions in the past three months which showed that MCA, Gerakan and the other 10 Barisan Nasional component parties have no say whatsoever in Barisan Nasional policy decision-making and what UMNO says, does and decides are the law in Barisan Nasional.
The other two incidents were:
• The Parliament speech by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Jamil Khir Baharom on March 27 that the federal government was ready to work with the PAS Kelantan state government to implement the hudud law in Kelantan.
• The speech by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak in Alor Setar on April 24 that the Barisan Nasional Federal Government had never rejected hudud.
What Najib and Jamil said were not only unilateral but arbitrary as they had never been the original Barisan Nasional stand, and furthermore, violate an important BN principle that any change of Barisan Nasional policy must be the result of the consensus of all component parties and not unilaterally and arbitrarily by any one party, even if it is UMNO.
Up to now, neither Liow nor Mah dare to point out that what Najib said on April 24 and what Jamil said on March 27 were never the Barisan Nasional Federal Government’s stand, which went back to the UMNO, MCA and MIC founders like Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Tun Tan Siew Sin and Tun V.T. Sambanthan as they were very clear that hudud was inconsistent with the secular 1957 Merdeka constitution and the 1963 Malaysia Constitution, and none of them would ever say what Najib said on April 24 and what Jamil said on March 27.
Now there is a Selangor State Assemblyman moving a motion aimed at pushing for the implementation of hudud in Selangor.
Both Liow and Mah should seriously reconsider whether it is not time that they should take a stand and call on Najib to put on hold on any Cabinet reshuffle to bring MCA and Gerakan back into the Cabinet until UMNO can give a solemn undertaking that it will not push for implementation of hudud law whether at federal or state level, or do they want to go down in history as politicians who are prepared to be Ministers regardless of political principles?
This pair have come so far and sunk so low just to have another shot at being ministers..So why not?
Sure, there are high and noble political principles (based on ideology ) worth extolling under the banner of public or constituents’ or nation’s welfare and fighting for – for so long as the onus is shifted to one’s political opponent to measure up – but generally none more important (as far as average politicians go) than the political principle of receiving patronage to secure via politics public office/position and with it, the power, backed against public trust, the opportunity to abuse that office/position for one’s own benefit Auberon Herbert knows what he’s talking about when he argues that politics must be based on general principles grounded in an understanding of human nature – which I take it to mean the propensity to greed power money and self aggrandizement!
Frankly, I do not know if there is still anything left for both Liow and Mah to trade off with UMNO Baru aside from their principles. But judging from this Malaysiakini’s report, PM Najib sure has his way with the Pekingese when he boasted about how China had cared for him during his visit there last week:
“Beijing insists Najib’s eggs be boiled for 10min.”
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said today that he wasn’t even allowed to eat his eggs the way he always preferred, for health reasons.
Hmm……….must try this one out!
MCA will get Transport Ministry so that it can get the heat on MH370. Congratulations!
Cabinet position with its powers of patronage is main raison de etre and ultimate reward of being in politics. Who but only the rare exceptional would in politics trade and sacrifice political reward for mere consistency of political stand or principles in the abstract?
Pardon me. But who the heck is liow and and and (wot?) maah?
Or hv I missed something? Its one and the same person? Mah liow or liow mah or somehing like that?
Pls somebody. Enlighten me.
AiYah, leave them alone lah, Y keep POKING at them, same same China men, live n let live mah
They got 2 feed their families what n they chose dis SPINELESS n talk big (at least 2 impress n CON d Chinese rakyat) way 2 live their serf existence (but ministers leh)
Let IT B lor
See, d REALITY is d horsey chap is IN n your Dyana is OUT
N d horsey chap is going 2 b a minister n U hv 2 SHOW respect 2 him by addressing him as WHATever honorific term lah
So carrying on BS-ing or horse sh!t-ing