December 10, 2012

Parti Gerakan membidas DAP kerana berlaku adil kepada Islam

Dua Hari lepas Teng Chang Yeow, Pengerusi BN P Pinang, menunjukkan sifat rasis Gerakan. Teng telah memainkan isu kaum dan agama yang sangat sempit semata-mata kerana politik sempit BN P Pinang. Kali ini BN sekali lagi menunjukkan sikap bermuka-muka mereka dengan membidas Lim Guan Eng kerana memberikan peruntukan 300% kepada Hal Ehwal Agama Islam di negeri itu. Dalam pada itu komponen terbesar BN, UMNO pula telah bercakap bergegar-gegar dalam perhimpunan parti itu minggu lepas dengan cuba menonjolkan yang UMNO memperjuangkan Islam dengan serius.
 
‘Satu undi untuk PAS, adalah satu undi untuk kehancuran Islam’ kata Presiden nya, Najib yang akhir-akhir ini cuba melekatkan imej Islam kepada diri beliau sendiri. Kalau benar Najib dan UMNO itu kuat memperjuangkan Islam, Presiden parti itu sepatutnya membuat kenyataan akhbar untuk memberikan pujian terhadap Lim Guan Eng (LGE)  kerana peruntukan yang besar untuk kegiatan agama beliau itu. Najib sepatutnya membidas Teng Chang Yeow kerana membantutkan usaha meyakinkan rakyat bahawa BN itu memperjuangkan Islam seperti yang termaktub di dalam Bab 3 Perlembagaan UMNO itu.
 
BN dan UMNO nampaknya hanya beretorik tentang Islam ini, sebaliknya DAP pula membantu PAS dalam memperkemaskan isu Islam dalam perjuangan Pakatan Rakyat. UMNO hanya sarat dengan slogan. Dulu UMNO berslogan ‘bersih, cekap dan amanah’ tetapi tidak di laksanakan, tetapi DAP pula yang melaksanakan slogan itu dengan mentadbir P Pinang dengan bersih, cekap dan amanah. Begitu juga di Selangor, Kedah dan Kelantan: apa yang di slogankan UMNO, itulah yang dilaksanakan oleh pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
 
Kadangkala ada juga baiknya BN ini. Itu sebabnya saya pernah mencadangkan supaya BN duduk di pihak pembangkang dan tugas mereka hanya mencipta slogan-slogan yang besar-besar. Biar PR memimpin dan mentadbir kerajaan dan melaksanakan semua slogan ciptaan  BN itu. BN tidak pernah menjayakan apa-apa slogan laungannya.
 
Berbalik kepada kenyataan terang Teng Chang Yeow di Pulau Pinang itu, kita ingin melihat dan mendengar reaksi UMNO Pulau Pinang khususnya dari Pengerusi dan Timbalan Pengerusi Perhubungan negeri itu yang sentiasa menuduh DAP anti Islam dan anti Melayu itu.  Apakah jumlahnya peruntukkan bagi Hal Ehwal Agama Islam di negeri itu semasa BN/Gerakan memimpin negeri itu sejak merdeka selama 55 tahun dahulu? Semasa tahun akhir pentadbiran BN di P Pinang peruntukan bagi Hal Ehwal Islam di P Pinang hanyalah RM12 juta sahaja berbanding dengan RM64 juta sekarang ini.
 
Kita tidak tahu, yang mana satu yang betul kerana lain parti dalam BN ini lain perjuangannya. Selama ini yang kita tahu dengan pimpinan UMNO dan BN menuduh Pakatan Rakyat yang tidak sealiran dalam perjuangan parti-parti komponennya. Sekarang ini elok kita minta pimpinan BN duduk di atas satu pentas  Kita hendak juga mendengar apa kata Chua Soi Lek dari MCA, Teng Chang Yeow dari Gerakan serta parti-parti komponen yang lain di P Pinang itu.
 
Dengan kenyataan Pengerusi BN P Pinang itu, kita yakin yang sebenarnya bercanggah perjuangan ialah parti-parti dalam BN itu. Oleh kerana kelemahan setiap parti dalam BN itu maka keluar lah kenyataan yang membingungkan yang susah untuk di fahami rakyat. 
 
Justeru kita tidak nampak bagaimana BN boleh diyakini oleh rakyat di P Pinang khususnya orang-orang Melayu yang beragama Islam di sana. Tidak ada penyatuan matlamat dalam perjuangan BN itu. BN gagal untuk menampilkan pendirian yang satu di antara parti-parti komponennya.  Mereka sedang dalam keadaan lemah dan tidak akan dapat menyelesaikan krisis keyakinan yang sedang mereka hadapi.
 
Sesungguhnya UMNO dan BN tidak mempunyai apa-apa lagi. Yang ada hanyalah saki-baki kuasa yang masih ada kepada mereka dan dalam penantian untuk menghadapi kekalahan buat kali pertama dalam sejarah kemerdekaan kita.

Pakatan making inroads into Umno's fortress






















                           
Although Johor is considered a ‘fixed deposit' for BN and an impenetrable Umno fortress, a finding by the PAS Research Centre (PPP) shows that there are signs of change among voters in the southern state.

The centre, which is backed by the Islamist party, noted a significant shift among the young and middle-income voters in Johor, leading to a better showing by Pakatan Rakyat in the upcoming general elections.

kuala terengganu by election voting day 170109 voters queuePPP director of operations Zuhdi Marzuki even went as far as describing Pakatan's chances of grabbing Johor from BN as "very bright".

Analysis of voters support for BN in 13 of the 26 parliamentary seats - Segamat, Labis, Ledang, Bakri, Muar, Batu Pahat, Kluang, Gelang Patah, Tebrau, Pasir Gudang, Johor Bahru, Pulai and Kulai - has fallen below 50 percent.

Eight out of the 13 seats categorised as grey areas for BN indicated its grassroots support to be under 44 percent. Most of these areas are mixed constituencies where there are more or less even numbers of Malay and non-Malay voters.

Commenting on this phenomenon, PAS vice-president Salahuddin Ayub pointed to another study by a group of political analysts from a public university which found support for Pakatan among Malay voters in Johor to have increased by about three to five percent.

However, PPP's analysis was more modest - it found the increase of Malay support at between two and three percent, with the voters being mostly in the young and middle-income categories.

MCA seats particularly vunerable

Zuhdi said the increase in support from the Malay voters, together with the support of the Chinese voters, would generate enough swing that may result in seven more parliamentary seats falling to Pakatan.

BN controls 25 parliamentary seats in Johor, while Pakatan has just one - the northern Johor seat of Bakri held by DAP. The seats which are under BN are Umno (16), MCA (7), MIC (1) and Gerakan (1).

NONEThe PPP analysis further states that of the 56 state seats in Johor, only 26 are considered "white seats" for BN, with the rest labelled "grey". At present, Pakatan holds six state assembly seats, with DAP, 4, and PAS, 2.

According to the analysis, the seats categorised as safe for BN are Buluh Kasap, Kemelah, Bukit Serampang, Jorak, Serom, Bukit Naning, Sungai Balang, Semerah, Sri Medan, Semarang, Parit Yaani, Parit Raja, Penggaram, Senggarang, Mahkota, Kahang, Panti, Pasir Raja, Sedili, Johor Lama, Penawar, Tanjung Surat, Tiram, Benut, Pulai Sebatang and Kukup.

Zuhdi said the current status of the seats did not take into account the controversial Rapid oil refinery project (Rapid) that comes under the Pengerang parliamentary seat, which covers the state seats of Penawar and Tanjung Surat.

Based on the PPP analysis and taking into account the Rapid issue in Pengerang as well as issues concerning Felda, the Iskandar project and the people's demand for a "clean" leadership, the opposition coalition's chances of winning over the Umno stronghold were good, he added.

Salahuddin favoured as Johor MB 

NONEPPP's confidence is buoyed by another study by the National Professor's Council (MPN), which showed respondents in Johor favouring Salahuddin (right) - the man who will spearhead the opposition campaign in Johor - for the menteri besar's post as compared to the incumbent, Umno's Abdul Ghani Othman.

PPP said the study revealed that Salahuddin received the highest nod from the respondents, followed by PAS central committee member Mazlan Aliman, with the Umno leaders, including Ghani, behind the two.

"The naming of a Malay candidate as MB by Pakatan has made a huge impact on the rise of voter support for Pakatan, especially among the young and middle-class voters," said Zuhdi.
 

December 09, 2012

Jalan ke Putrajaya semakin terbuka luas...

 



Para pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat yakin, jalan untuk ke Putrajaya semakin terbuka luas ekoran tanda-tanda yang ditunjukkan oleh para pemimpin Umno dalam Perhimpunan Agung Umno (PAU 12) baru-baru ini.

Permohonan maaf Presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan tangisan perwakilan mereka yang berucap membayangkan tanda-tanda itu.

"Adakah perwakilan ini menangis kerana takut kehilangan kuasa," tanya Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yang berucap di himpunan itu.

(Wakil PAS, PKR dan DAP Kedah membaca ikrar untuk bekerja keras bagi membolehkan Pakatan ke Putrajaya)

Pemimpin PAS di Kedah pula mengajak rakyatnya agar menjadikan usaha untuk ke Putrajaya sebagai kaedah untuk memudahkan pelaksanaan segala usaha untuk kepentingan negara dan rakyat.

Keyakinan dan harapan ini dikemukakan mereka dalam Himpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat peringkat negeri Kedah di Stadium Sultan Abdul Halim, Suka Menanti malam ini.

Lebih 20,000 rakyat Kedah memenuhi stadium terbuka ini.

Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Ketua Parlimen DAP, Lim Kit Siang dan Menteri Besar Kedah, Datuk Seri Azizan Razak adalah pemimpin utama yang berucap di samping Haji Mohamad Sabu yang menjadi pengarah himpunan ini.

Selain memberikan ucapan, mereka juga mendengar ikrar dari wakil PAS, PKR dan DAP yang berjanji untuk memberikan kesetiaan kepada Pakatan Rakyat dan berjanji untuk bekerja bersungguh-sungguh bagi mempastikan Pakatan ke Putrajaya.

Himpunan kebangkitan rakyat peringkat negeri Kedah ini adalah yang ke empat selepas Seremban, Kota Bharu dan Batu Pahat, Johor.

Esok himpunan akan diadakan di Melaka, Ahad ini di Pahang dan 14 dan 15 Disember depan di Paka, Terengganu.

"Saya berjanji akan berbuat apa saja untuk menaikkan martabat Islam dan orang Melayu di negara apabila berada di Putrajaya nanti," kata Anwar sambil menambah, "Saya berkata ini di depan semua pihak termasuk Cina dan India."

Anwar penuh keyakinan adalah tidak mungkin untuk PAS dan PKR untuk meminggirkan Melayu sebagaimana dituduh Umno.

Lim Kit Siang pula berkata, Umno di depan orang Melayu akan berkata, DAP akan memimpin negara ini dan menjadikan Malaysia negara Kristian.

(Anwar berjanji akan memastikan martabat Islam dan Melayu terjamin di bawah Pakatan)

MCA pula di depan orang Cina berkata PAS akan menjadikan Malaysia negara Islam.

"Semua ini adalah cara nak pecah belah," kata Kit Siang.

Kit Siang juga mempersoalkan, apakah sebenarnya yang diminta maaf oleh Presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Najib ketika PAU 12 baru-baru ini.

"Adakah kerana menjadikan Malaysia negara yang paling korup di kalangan perdana menteri Malaysia yang ada," kata beliau mengulas indeks korupsi negara yang sedikit menurun tetapi masih tertinggi berbanding indeks korupsi Malaysia di bawah perdana menteri sebelum ini.-harakahdaily

30,000 Johoreans turned up at Umno’s bastion state Johor



Some 30,000 Johoreans turned up at the assembly of awakened Johoreans at Parit Raja, Batu Pahat on December 1, 2012, to shake Umno’s bastion state Johor.
Never in Johor’s political history has an Opposition rally attracted such an enormous crowd.The assembly was part of the on-going state-level Himpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat (Peoples’ Uprising Assembly) series being organised by Pakatan Rakyat (PR) nationwide.

It follows the national-level assembly staged in Taman Seremban Jaya in Senawang on Nov 3 which also attracted about 30,000 Malaysians.

A sea of politically awakened Johoreans turned up for Himpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat.

PR leaders seated from left are PAS vice-president Salahuddin Ayub, Johor PAS commissioner Mahfodz Mohamed, Johor PKR chairman Chua Jui Meng, PAS deputy president Mat Sabu, PR d factor leader Anwar Ibrahim and DAP vice-chairman Tan Seng Giaw. Hua is seen having a serious discussion with his Johor PAS counterpart while waiting for Hadi to wrap up his ceramah.

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and myself arrived together at about 11pm and were pleasantly surprised by the mammoth crowd.

They both had to wade through a sea of people to get to the stage with their shoes and trousers covered with mud.

PAS president Hadi Awang was then in the midst of his more than an hour-long speech.

After Hadi wrapped up his ceramah, a brief ceremony was held to introduce and accept the membership application forms of several ex-senior Johor civil servants and former key Umno members who joined PAS.

Introducing and accepting application forms of new PAS members comprising ex-senior civil servants from Johor and key Umno members.

Anwar was then called to the stage to deliver his ceramah and got the crowd roaring when he shot off with: “This is not an Umno assembly! What (Prime Minister and Umno president) Najib (Abdul Razak) don’t understand is the emergence of Kebangkitan Rakyat (Peoples’ Uprising).”

“Malaysians today are well informed about socio-political issues. They are also much more intelligent and it is not so easy, as in the past, to fool them.

“There is no room for lip service and mere rhetoric in politics anymore. We must tell the rakyat (people) what we can offer and what we can do to provide good governance.

“We must make clear our people-oriented policies and that we are here to serve the people and to ensure their welfare and country’s progress.

“Unlike BN, if we are given the mandate to administer Putrajaya after the next 13th General Election, we will ensure the eradication of corruption,” Anwar said.

Anwar doing what he does best on stage … he kept the crowd listening to him for about 90 minutes.

When it was my turn to speak, I told the crowd: “Tonight is the turning point of PR’s arduous journey not only to Putrajaya, but to also topple Umno and MCA in their political stronghold.

The crowd is simply amazing because they remained until 1am to hear us out. They were also not put off by the muddy ground caused by rain in the late afternoon. The tiger is awakened! Umno, MCA and BN beware!

What is more telling is that some 90% of the audience were Malays. We are now witnessing a strong swing of Malay voters in Johor to PR.

In fact, I had arrived together with Anwar from the Johor PKR Deepavali Open House cum ceramah in Tebrau.

The turnout was about 5,000 people and what was encouraging was that 90% of the audience were Indians. This indicates Johoreans want people-centric and cleaner state and federal governments.

The strong turnout by the Indians in Johor also confirms that the community is also giving wider support to PR compared with the March 2008 political tsunami.