Kelantan prince’s New Clothes. The plot revolved around a prince who was tricked into believing that he was wearing a special outfit when in fact he was naked. His sycophants complimented him for his wonderful choice of clothing. When the prince went out on the street, scared commoners praised the invisible suit. Finally, an innocent little kid screamed: “Look, the prince has no clothes!”The one loud sentence sent the entire town into shock. However, since it was the truth, nobody could deny it anymore. And eventually, this Kelantan prince came back to his senses Perkasa desperately needs that Kelantan prince Someone perhaps who could stand up at Perkasa national convention and shout: HIDUP MELALAYU , Post UMNO-election politics Ku Li seems to be looking for an escape route as it will find it difficult to explain why it has chosen to deviate Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s credentials as a statesman and a politician with enlightened views on race are now on the line as he has reportedly accepted Perkasa will be new kid seeking to dodge UMNO stand that UMNO and PAS are two sides of the same coin and any truck with them will sully its image and transparency agenda.
Perkasa will be new kid seeking to dodge UMNO create new legacies. Chaffing at being bested by a new party Power has to move to a consortium of the best performers. The political chess being played out The family can be the moral centre, but not the power centre. Top performing CMs, MPs and ministers must get the limelight they deserve should step back and highlight others. This way more UMNOspersons get noticed and the party has a broader leadership.the great toss-up between perception and evidence, the former generally wins. Conventional wisdom, for instance, suggests that unity within a party brings victory. Reality: It is the scent of victory that encourages unity. When crowds recede in an election campaign, leaders squabble and search for alibis. Tensions become septic after results. Witness the blistering attack these are not easy tasks, but not impossible either. The bigger issue is does the UMNO want to rebuild itself? More than anything, does the Emperor have the courage to listen to the kid who is right? UMNO would still be in power. Quite right.
One can almost predict the silence in the auditorium thereafter, akin to the silence in the town square. The first reaction would be denial, or even attacking the person who said it.
Better still, label suarakeadilanmalaysia.wordpress this columnist elitist, biased, paid, bigoted, idiot, evil, ignorant or any other negative adjective that comes to mind. However, as the Enrique song goes — you can run, you can hide but you can’t escape my love (in this case, the truth).This truth is particularly bitter because the Maathir has little idea on how to fix the problem. As many say, what is this Mahathir? Right now, Perkasa hasn’t done much besides cashing in on the Mahathir legacy.In fact,Mahathir to hide incompetence and even abused it to cover up scams in name of helping we Malays. Tun Mahathir brand is so depleted that there isn’t much legacy left anymore. The young Malay generation doesn’t know what to make of them. Should they associate with Mahathirism with sacrifice, or see them as Malays who keep silent and help cover up corruption?Is Perkasa interested in making the Malays lives better, or merely self-preservers? What is the answer? It is all a big confusing mess, and youngsters see no reason why the surname means the party deserves their vote. The results are there for all to see.
While the Gua Musang MP has regularly met Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali as both are from Kelantan, they cannot be more different as chalk and cheese.Tengku Razaleigh is urbane, sophisticated and cosmopolitan while Ibrahim has been known to be crude with a narrow racial view that has seen him jump from one party to another, earning the sobriquet of a “political frog”. the former finance minister and Umno veteran, popularly known as Ku Li, has confirmed he would attend the meeting at Pusat Islam in Kuala Lumpur on December 22.
Those close to the Kelantan prince said he had weighed the pros and cons of associating with the right-wing Malay group before confirming his attendance at the assembly themed “Upholding the Constitution for the wellbeing of all”.
“He wants to engage the Perkasa leadership and persuade them to be more inclusive. He wants them to look at the bigger picture,” a Ku Li confidante told The Malaysian Insider.
Tengku Razaleigh, who was tasked with setting up national oil firm Petronas, has been an advocate of market and economic liberalisation in the past decade unlike Ibrahim who believes that the Malays should have a greater control and share of the economy.
Ibrahim has articulated his views through Perkasa, which boasts a 500,000 membership mainly from Umno, which he found after 2008 elections when he stood on a PAS ticket.
He turned independent to support the ruling Barisan Nasional after Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi stepped down as prime minister.
His relationship with Ku Li goes back to the time when both were in the old Umno and the now defunct Semangat 46, which was once in power with PAS in the Kelantan government.
Both only returned to the Umno fold in 1996, where Ibrahim eventually became a deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s government.
Ku Li, who was also once trade minister, had been Dr Mahathir’s political foe when he ran for the Umno presidency in 1987 which he lost by 44 votes. Ironically, Dr Mahathir is the Perkasa patron.
Last month, former Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Rahman announced that he had joined the Malay rights group.
Ibrahim told The Malaysian Insider that more well-known personalities would soon join the movement but he declined to name them.
“Perkasa is open to all… There are more people interested in joining Perkasa, including some big names. I will elaborate more on this during the AGM,” he said.
Other prominent members include former inspector-general of police Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor.
Perkasa grabbed the headlines on November 24, when Abdul Rashid announced he had joined the group six months ago to help the group achieve its goal of strengthening Malay-Muslim dominance.
He added that the three redelineation exercises undertaken while he was chief were done to keep Umno and in his view, Malay Muslims, in power.
