It is almost customary in this country for the main stream media to ponder the performance of elected leaders after 100 days in office.
Focus of attention is always given to the Prime Minister and Menteris Besar. Why 100 days, nobody seems to know. But, I guess that some media practitioners look at the 100 days performance to judge the persons' ability to rule the full five years.
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| Honeymoon over. Get back to work, sir |
What attracted my attention on this subject was a report in the NST about Dato Sri Najib's role as Prime Minister until the next general election.
It is interesting to note that the Prime Minister remains consistent in his efforts to bring progress to this country. He continued to harp on racial harmony, much to the disappointment of some of his die-hard supporters who were pissed off with the majority of the Chinese voters for not supporting Barisan Nasional in the last general election.
Nevertheless, I agree with the Prime Minister. You certainly cannot give up just because you were not fully successful. Any leaders worth their salt know that they cannot, but continue to woe voters all the time.
To maintain peace and harmony among the races, we need to continue harping on the need to unite and work together. It is a fact that no single race can survive in this country without the support of other races.
Our forefathers have thought long and hard about this, hence the establishment of the strategic alliance, Perikatan. Through Perikatan and later evolved to become Barisan Nasional, all the races in the country work together to bring prosperity to Malaysia.
It is only after the sacking of Anwar Ibrahim as deputy Prime Minister and the unholy alliance he formed with DAP and PAS leaders did the unity among the races began to crack.
From then on, Malaysians were bombarded with so many racist issues on a daily basis. The social media was widely used to propagate hatred among the races. DAP used the social media extensively to turn the Chinese voters against MCA and Gerakan whom it described as mere tools for UMNO.
Thus, it came as a no surprise when the Chinese voters were almost solidly behind DAP in the May 2013 General Election, making the party having the most number of Parliamentary seats among the Opposition parties.
The Chinese voters chose to ignore the goodies handed over by BN leaders, including the Prime Minister. They were made to believe that the BN Government would topple and DAP together with PKR and PAS would rule Putrajaya.
Imagine their disappointment when BN was returned to power on the wee hours of May 9, 2013.
DAP and PAS quickly come to term with the defeat. However, PKR, the new kid on the block could not accept defeat gracefully and went on to organise rallies to challenge the outcome of the election.
PKR went ballistic and tried to stir the people emotions to support street demonstrations, but much to the embarrassment of PKR leaders, the attempts fizzled out.
So far in the last 100 days, nothing much could be done by Dato Seri Najib and his Government as a lot of efforts were spend on watching and monitoring PKR and their associates throwing tantrums.
The point I want to stress here is for the Prime Minister and his Government to stop entertaining Anwar in his unprofitable games, but to focus their attention on flourishing the nation.
Please go back to the people. Show the people that you care. Follow the good examples set by other world leaders. Put the interest of the people first.
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| MINISTERS AS TAXI DRIVERS? Why not! |
Malaysians love leaders who are humble, kind hearted and attentive to their needs. Stop being aloof, be part of the people. Drive taxis if you must.
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