Stop bickering and start serving the Rakyat

Today, in all the newspapers and on what I have expressed yesterday, the Rakyat are very annoyed and upset with the continuous politicking, party bickering and attack on both fronts, especially UMNO in Barisan Nasional and PKR in Pakatan Rakyat. No doubt sodomy and sexuality subjects are very exciting, politicians do not need to go overboard and jump in the bandwagon and start commenting on it. This is becoming very childish in the eyes of the Rakyat and very shameful to the whole world.

Here, I am not saying we should not be open and transparent in issues. But as politicians, we should look at the more important matters like fuel hike, food and commodity prices affecting the Rakyat. This is what we have elected the wakil rakyat and adun to do: To give priority to the needs of the Rakyat and to find ways to reduce the rising cost of living.


True politicians in BN and PR must forget their differences and start working together to ensure we ride through this crisis and survive it.

If Politicians don’t work together, I am certain the new 'People Power' Rakyat would use their vote in the next election to get rid of politician who does not do their very best to the very best of their ability.


Start serving now and be our Peoples' politicians who care, share and serve with a true heart.

Datuk Nik Sapeia bin Nik Yusof

Kerajaan mesti tegas atasi krisis ekonomi

Kota Bharu

Parti Progresif Penduduk Malaysia (PPP) merayu pemimpin politik supaya mengadakan perbincangan dengan serius untuk menghadapi serangan ekonomi yang melanda negara ini.

Pengerusi PPP Kelantan, Datuk Nik sapeia Nik Yusuf berkata, beliau bimbang dengan kemelut yang berlaku sekarang telah menakutkan rakyat dan secara tidak langsung boleh menjejaskan pembangunan ekonomi negara.

Katanya, tindakan sekumpulan penyokong parti pembangkang yang dikatakan akan mengadakan perhimpunan di beberapa tempat di Kuala Lumpur esok adalah perbuatan yang tidak sewajarnya dilakukan dalam keadaan sekarang.

"Ini kerana kita sekarang ini dalam keadaan yang tidak stabil dalam pelbagai perkara berikutan serangan ekonomi dari negara luar.

"Kita harus bertindak waras. Jangan membuat sesuatu yang membimbangkan rakyat dan memberi kesan kepada pembangunan ekonomi rakyat.

Katanya, sudah cukup rakyat menderita dengan beberapa isu kenaikan harga minyak dan barang keperluan, tetapi kini mereka dibebankan pula dengan kemelut politik peribadi.

Menurut beliau, kerajaan dan pembangkang sepatutnya memikirkan kaedah terbaik untuk mengatasi dan mengelak daripada serangan ekonomi oleh pihak tertentu yang kini mengambil kesempatan di atas apa yang berlaku untuk menjatuhkan negara ini.

"Berilah kesempatan kepada kerajaan yang dipilih oleh rakyat untuk memulihkan kedudukan ekonomi negara yang kini terjejas teruk kesan daripada kenaikan harga petroleum di peringkat global.

"Keadaan kini dilihat lebih teruk dengan berlakunya konflik personal yang dibawa dalam pentadbiran politik sehingga menjejaskan usaha untuk memulihkan pembangunan ekonomi negara," katanya.

Nik Sapeia berkata, kerajaan harus menyelesaikan perancangan jangka pendek dengan segera supaya rakyat dapat menikmati kehidupan lebih sempurna dengan mengkaji semula kenaikan harga minyak.

Beliau yang juga Pengerusi Biro Agama PPP Pusat berkata, soal projek jangka panjang tidak pasti akan berjaya, jika program jangka pendek tidak diatasi secepat mungkin.

"Kerajaan mesti tegas dan tidak tunduk kepada tekanan daripada mana-mana pihak yang cuba mengambil kesempatan untuk memusnahkan negara ini yang telah kita bina bersama sejak sekian lama. Ini adalah amanah.

"Kerajaan harus berani memberi ruang kepada peniaga mengimport barang kawalan seperti beras, gandum, gula, simen, besi dan barang keperluan lain yang tidak terkawal kenaikan harganya pada masa kini.

"Ini supaya wujud persaingan harga, tidak sebagaimana sekarang ia dimonopoli oleh pihak tertentu. Walaupun perjanjian monopoli wujud, tetapi kerana keadaan masih darurat, kerajaan ada hak untuk mengeluarkan lesen import kepada yang layak.

"Memandangkan keadaan harga siling hari ini tidak terkawal. Ini yang harus difikirkan oleh kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk membawa negara ke mercu kejayaan," katanya.

Beliau berkata, kerajaan perlu bertindak segera walau apa cara sekali pun dengan memastikan bahagian penguatkuasaan mesti mempunyai semangat patriotik untuk membanteraskan penyelewengan yang berlaku, kerana ada pihak tertentu akan mengambil kesempatan.

Katanya, rakyat telah memberi kesempatan kepada parti pembangkang seperti Pas, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) dan DAP untuk mentadbir negeri seperti Perak, Pulau Pinang, Kelantan, Kedah dan Selangor.

"Tunjukkan kemampuan dan tunaikan janji yang telah ditaburkan ketika kempen pilihan raya umum lalu. Jangan cuba untuk mengalihkan perhatian rakyat dengan beberapa isu yang tidak sepatutnya diperbesarkan dalam keadaan sekarang.

"Rakyat sedang memerhati apa yang pemimpin buat di lima negeri yang mereka tadbir. Rakyat mahukan keamanan, kesejahteraan dan kemakmuran, bukan kemelut yang menjijikkan.

"Rakyat cintakan kedamaian. Rakyat benci kepada tunjuk perasaan dan perhimpunan haram yang tidak boleh membantu usaha kerajaan memulihkan ekonomi negara.

"Saya merayu kepada semua pemimpin politik negara ini, sama ada daripada kerajaan atau pembangkang, ambillah peluang dan kesempatan untuk membincangkan kepentingan rakyat dan Negara dalam keadaan ekonomi yang boleh dikatakan berada dalam keadaan darurat.

Sehubungan itu, Nik Sapeia meminta peniaga jangan mengambil kesempatan dengan keadaan sekarang untuk menaikkan harga sehingga membebankan rakyat.

"Tindakan menaikan harga amat tidak bijak kerana kesannya akan tempias kepada diri sendiri," katanya.

Datuk Nik Sapeia bin Nik Yusof

Jangan buat spekulasi kes Anwar-Saiful

Sinar Harian : Khamis 3 Julai 2008
Manzaidi

Pemimpin politik dinasihatkan supaya tidak membuat sebarang spekulasi yang boleh menjejaskan mana-mana pihak berhubung dakwaan liwat yang dibuat oleh Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan terhadap bekas Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Pengerusi PARTI Progresif Penduduk Malaysia (PPP) Kelantan, Datuk Nik Sapeia Nik Yusof berkata, setiap kenyataan daripada pemimpin politik yang dibuat berdasarkan andaian dari sejarah lampau, boleh menjurus kepada suatu bentuk tuduhan tidak berasas.

Katanya, bagi menyelamatkan keadaan dan menjaga kepentingan kedua-dua pihak, adalah lebih baik mereka menyerahkan kes itu kepada Anwar dan Mohd Saiful untuk mencari jalan penyelesaian.

“Tak perlulah kita bertindak menjadi polis atau hakim sekarang. Sebah apa yang kita lakukan itu secara tidak langsung mengganggu siasatan polis dan hospital.”

“Kita ada undang-undang menyelesaikannya. Ataupun kaedah lain ialah biar Anwar dan Mohd Saiful saja yang selesaikannya,” katanya ketika dihubungi Sinar Harian di sini, semalam.

Berhubung kes itu, Nik Sapeia yang juga Pengerusi Biro Agama PPP Pusat berkata, beliau sedih dan kecewa dengan sikap sesetengah pemimpin parti politik yang terlalu ghairah bercakap mengenai sesuatu isu panas.

Sedangkan katanya, dalam isu kenaikan minyak yang menjejaskan ekonomi rakyat, ramai di kalangan mereka todak tampil untuk memberi pembelaan.

“Banyak lagi perkara lain yang lebih penting perlu diberi tumpuan oleh mereka terutama berkaitan taraf socio ekonomi rakyat yang kini semakin tersempit berikutan kenaikan harga minyak.

“Jangan kerana kes Anwar-Mohd Saiful, kita merasakan isu kenaikan harga minyak sudah selesai dan rakyat telah melupakannya,” katanya.

Sementara itu, dalam kembangan berkaitan, beliau meminta Ahli Parlimen yang menghadiri sidang Dewan Negara supaya lebih berhemah dan membangkitkan isu berkaitan kepentingan rakyat.

Katanya, ada sesetengah Ahli Parlimen langsung tidak menunjukkan etika sebagai wakil rakyat sejati ketika berada dalam dewan.

“Memang wajar kalau Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi menilai persidangan Dewan Rakyat seperti pasar.”

Ini kerana kebanyakan wakil rakyatnya terutama daripada pembangkang mengambil peluang itu untuk menuding jari mencari kesalahan kerajaan, sedangkan mereka harus menggunakannya untuk memberi cadangan atau pandangan,” katanya.

Datuk Nik Sapeia Nik Yusof

Malaysia not prepared to face crisis

The Qur’an was handed down to mankind by Allah to serve as a guide. It contains the very truest accounts, bringing glad tidings to man, warning us and instilling fear in us. It is a great mercy and the sole Divine Book. For that reason, it is the Qur'an that people must read and study above all else.

Prophet Yusuf (known in the Bible as Joseph), is one of those prophets about whose life the Qur’an has most to say. Almost all of Surah Yusuf, one of the longest in the Qur'an, is devoted to his life and that of his family. Early on in this Surah, Allah reveals that his life story contains important indications, proofs and wisdom:

Prophet Yusuf indicated that there are seven (7) years of peace and prosperity followed by seven (7) years of chaos and turmoil. Basically, his teaching advises us to always prepare for the worst and to overcome the crisis by preparing before the crisis happens.

Malaysia, an Islamic country have not learnt from Prophet Yusuf’s teaching and apply his wisdom in preparing Malaysia to face the recent number of crisis faced namely floods in Johor, shortage of rice and recently the hike in oil prices.

After 50 years of independence, Malaysia is still not prepared. We have a Master Plan but the plan is not far-sighted and is very myopic (short-sighted). The government had not done a proper planning resulting in the Rakyat suffering most of the time when the crisis happens.

The government needs to buck up and do better in their planning so that the Rakyat will continue to live peacefully, progressively and prosperously. Not only the government, we as Rakyat Malaysia must also plan to ensure that we are ready for any crisis situation ... the property slump, stock market crash and global recession which will hit us soon?

Datuk Nik Sapeia bin Nik Yusof

Future of PPP in BN

The future of PPP, whether inside or outside BN, is going to be the same: the party will continue to be popular and gain in popularity. It will be the party of the future.

Because in all developed countries, a two-party system will eventually emerge. Either you work, or I vote in the next party.

I think after Tun Mahathir’s time, BN has become too comfortable. You make every decision, then you come to the meeting, it’s all done. Then we hold press conferences to say it’s all set, everything’s okay, we have agreed. Now I realize that that’s what’s been happening. We can’t talk, don’t talk. We zip our mouths. Why? Respect. We give respect. We want peace. We want to progress. We want to prosper. So, we make friends and we be there. But if you’re constantly being left out …..

Some people have asked me, ‘Why are you talking about seats only now and not when you became president of PPP? I became president in ’93, [general] elections were held in ’95. There was only one new Parliamentary seat available then. I asked for the seat.Originally, I think Tun Mahathir had in mind to give the seat to us. Then I think something happened and it went to MIC. I thought okay, and the PM advised me to hold on. In the ’99 [general elections], because of the Anwar issue and Keadilan, Tun Mahathir wanted to maintain status quo [to ensure a] Barisan win. It was also my paramount interest, so I said okay. And, of course, he later made me a Senator, brought me into the Cabinet.

Then he retired, and came [the general elections of] 2004. There were 25 Parliamentary seats and 63 state seats. I didn’t know when, how it was divided or where it all went. All I was told was that PPP had no seat – of course, I was willing to work – and then came the Taiping Parliamentary seat and one state seat. I began to realise …

When I was new as the President, we were building the party. Now, we’ve got half a million voters. I think that’s a big strength. We’re a political party; if you don't get your seat, that’s a problem. And this one seat they’ve given us …

This MP who has another seat, YB Tan (Lian Hoe), in Bukit Gantang, instead of working in her constituency, is attending to functions in Taiping and holding open houses there. She went to the by-elections in Batu Talam, posted up a letter that apparently said BN have made her in charge of Taiping. Where is Barisan ethics?

Barisan component leaders should have dignity – look, the PPP is now back; we are strong. We should talk about allocation seats.

When [Dato Seri] SP Seenivasagam, the [party] leader, died (in 1975), there was no leadership and there was crisis. Our 4 seats in Parliament, 12 state seats and 16 council seats in Ipoh municipal council were held in trust for PPP by the BN. So now, let’s see the honour, the true picture of Barisan integrity, Barisan transparency and Barisan Unity.

Datuk Dr. M Kayveas

Kayveas, the Fortune Teller of BN

Extracted from Off The Edge magazine: April, 2007

"Presently, we usually talk about unity on the surface level, as eyewash, to keep people quiet. In short, I don’t think any of them (BN leaders) are sincere when they talk about unity and multiracialism. So since I became President (of the People’s Progressive Party, or PPP) in 1993, I’ve been taking the opportunity to speak in political forums about it, [such as] at the PPP’s annual general meeting.

I am very convince, very, very convinced that we need to turn into a multiracial society. We must, we should. The question is whether it is possible. I think we can keep asking questions, but it must happen in order for Malaysia’s survival and to be a successful country.

Now, we have a brand – it seems to be, to visit Malaysia is to visit Asia. The whole of Asia is in Malaysia; if you visit, we are there. And if we are not a multiracial society, if we are still segregated into this race-based thing, then we are bluffing the whole world.

So let’s get real; let’s put our brand into practice. We can’t portray one brand [to the rest of the world] and here, be something else. The real problem is, there is no sincerity, especially among politicians. Outside of their party, they talk about multiracialism. But when they hold their [general assemblies], they continue shouting ‘Hidup Melayu’, ‘Hidup Cina’, Hidup India’. At these [political gatherings], they feel like they are in their own cave or in their own castle, and they talk only about their tribe, their clan, to promote themselves. But they don’t realize they’re just a small castle in the whole country.

The BN is a loose coalition; we say we are of all races, we give opportunities to everybody. But when it comes to policy decisions and many other things, you go back into your own cocoon; you only talk about your own religion and your own race. And you forgot about Malaysia. Right ? I go to London and I am Malaysian; I go to China and I’m Malaysian; I go to India and I’m Malaysian; I go all over the world, I’m Malaysian. But why is it when I come back to Malaysia. I am an Indian? That’s still the general feeling.

We must shed this shelf-image. We have no choice. If Malaysia is not going to become a truly multiracial country, we cannot use the phrase ‘Malaysia, truly Asia’, and neither can we succeed in the future because the more everybody talks just about their own race, we can never be a united cause.

If BN doesn’t become one party, it will be a failure in the future. It is the beginning to be a failure.

But for PPP, there is an opportunity. Of course, the trend seems to be that if you’re an Indian leader, okay, the Indians will fall behind you; if you’re a Chinese leader, Chinese behind you; Malay leader, Malays behind you. We must look for good leaders.

But who’s a good leader who can head all of us? It doesn’t matter if it is Chinese, Indian or Malay. We need a leader who can lead this country into the future. And I think we should consider the statements made by [HRH] Raja Nazrin (the Regent of Perak) in an interview in 2006. He said, ‘We need mature and responsible leaders and role models who are serious about bridging the divide of race and religion.’ Fantastic! We need a million leaders who can think like him, speak like him. Then we can progress." Datuk Dr. M Kayveas

Now is the right time ……

The above article from OFF The Edge magazine dated April 2007, only shows the accuracy of Datuk Kayveas' foresight about BN, one year before our 8 March, 2008 general election. Today, BN has weaken so much that a lot of the top leaders and members in component parties have lost faith and resigned from the party like Tun Dr. Mahathir and others from Gerakan, MCA, MIC. Surprisingly so far we do not have any leaders in PPP who had jumped ship. This only shows PPP, a truly multiracial party is still relevant.

Dr. Tan Kim Sai

Where have all our smart Economist gone to?

Malaysia is an oil producing country too. A brief info below shows our petrol price is the highest among other OIL PRODUCING countries

MALAYSIA- RM2.70/litre
UAE– RM1.19/litre
Eygpt– RM1.03/litre
Bahrain– RM0.87/litre
Qatar– RM0.68/litre
Kuwait– RM0.67/litre
Saudi Arabia– RM0.38/litre
Iran– RM0.35/litre
Nigeria– RM0.32/litre
Turkmenistan– RM0.25/litre
Venezuela– RM0.16/litre

A simple explanation from Tun Dr. Mahathir, extracted from his http://www.chedet.com/ blog ....

"Can the Government subsidise? I am the “adviser” to Petronas but I know very little about it beyond what is published in its accounts. What I do know may not be very accurate but should be sufficient for me to draw certain conclusions.

Roughly Malaysia produces 650,000 barrels of crude per day. We consume 400,000 barrels leaving 250,000 barrels to be exported.

Three years ago the selling price of crude was about USD30 per barrel. Today it is USD130 – an increase of USD100. There is hardly any increase in the production cost so that the extra USD100 can be considered as pure profit.

Our 250,000 barrels of export should earn us 250,000 x 100 x 365 x 3 = RM27,375,000,000 (twenty seven billion Ringgit).

But Petronas made a profit of well over RM70 billion, all of which belong to the Government.

By all accounts the Government is flushed with money.

But besides petrol the prices of palm oil, rubber and tin have also increased by about 400 per cent. Plantation companies and banks now earn as much as RM3 billion in profits each. Taxes paid by them must have also increased greatly.

I feel sure that maintaining the subsidy and gradually decreasing it would not hurt the Government finances.

In the medium term ways and means must be found to reduce wasteful consumption and increase income. We may not be able to fix the minimum wage at a high level but certainly we can improve the minimum wage."

What Tun said makes sense. He is more practical and really cares. I am certain that if he is still PM, he would have done what he had mentioned earlier.

I feel, the Government should have adopted a more prudent approach, that is, "if the Government have to increase the price, a little price increase is not out of order or step by step (or stagger) increase the price which was done a few years ago" based on Tun's analysis of the number of barrels of crude oil per day produced and consumed.

The Government should have given sufficient notice to inform the Rakyat early and indicate the time frame to move to the equilibrium market price. This way, the Rakyat can prepare to face the reality by finding a solution to overcome and lessen the burden, example buying a smaller cc or litre car, plan out their journey using the public transport or even fit their cars with gas cylinder as an alternative to overcome the high petrol price which had jump to RM2.70/litre from RM1.92/litre effective today.

Seriously, where have all our smart Economist gone to? I really would like to know who is our Prime Minister's advisers who had given him this radical approach - the sudden quantum leap of the fuel price. I am sure the Rakyat are truly disappointed today with this move. What Tun said here is right too,

"I believe the people expect the increase of petrol price. But what they are angry about is the quantum and the suddenness. The Prime Minister was hinting at August but suddenly it came two months earlier, just after the ban on sale of petrol to foreigners. If the increase had been more gradual, the people would not feel it so much. But of course this means that the Government would have to subsidise, though to a decreasing extent".

This is not an advertisement column for Tun's blog, anyway feel free to visit his blog http://www.chedet.com/ for more positive comments from our Rakyat who had written in to thank him for his rational thinking and approach to the oil price. This is what the Rakyat wants.

Dr. Tan Kim Sai

Satu Bangsa Malaysia, Satu Negara

The New Strait Times : May 26 2008

Bangsa Malaysia will become a reality when Malaysians relate to each other on the basis of nationality rather than race or religion, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. Who was speaking at the launch of National Unity Month 2008.

It is SAD to say after we have been independent for 51 years we still cannot identify ourself as Bangsa Malaysia! It takes too long to accept the facts and realise the importance of it to be recognised. And it takes time to materialise. The mind set of politician got to change and upgrade themselves. No more politiking in order to gain their political mileage in the detrimental of Rakyat Malaysia.

When we are in overseas, we say we are Malaysian proudly. But when we are back home we will identify ourselves as Chinese, Indian, Malay and etc. The worst scenario in Malaysia is we have double standard. We have first class citizen i.e Bumiputra, as long as is Muslim irrespective of where she or he is born and come from. That's why many Indonesian become first class citizen in Malaysia because of name sake as a Muslim. And second class citizen are those non muslim without a muslim name. These are open secret.

Sdri Jospehine Pang

Don't start this mockery again !

Dato’ Seri Samy Vellu said recently Dr S Subramaniam, the human resources minister and MIC secretary-general, is "the sole minister representing the Indian community".

http://malaysiakini.com/news/83547

It is shame to know after 50 years of independent only 10% of the PSD scholarship was allocated to the non-bumiputra student’s. So what MIC, MCA and Gerakan have been doing all this while in the cabinet? Good question, just imagine 10% of these scholarship have to be distributed among the Chinese, Indian and others students so what is the ratio breakdown, did anyone ever talked about this or even raised this for the benefits of doubts? It is perplexing to know this after so many years and this would have deprived many good and deserving students their chances of getting these scholarships. After sitting in the cabinet for so many years the so called who is representing certain ethnic group did not even raise this matter but today have the gut to say we are the sole representative of this group in the cabinet. I think all this should stop and they should start working.

YB Senator T. Murugiah is doing a fine job by going down to the grassroots, well the premier have endorsed and said that everyone should move down to the grassroots and meet the people to solve their problems. This should not be turned into a political gambit for self-interest. Look at it on a brighter sight and stop making unnecessary comments and work together in solving the community problems. Please do not forget that the people in the last general election have discard race-based parties, we should move towards the nation’s objective to achieve ‘Bangsa Malaysia’

Sdra A. Chandrakumanan

Let's move on...and serve the Rakyat well

Malaysia has moved so far ahead under leadership of past Prime Ministers and all this talk about race and superiority is very unbecoming. While we need to protect, help and guide the weak among us the others should have equal chance especially to gain from the economic pie available. As who rules of course, we have our Kings and our Parliament so no questions there.

Now after all the dust of elections have settled, all should stop stirring sentiments and let us get on. The Government be it BN or PR should start by continuing with all old development projects and introduce new ones so that the Rakyat could benefit. Make sure that there is enough money to go round and to service your campaign promises. It is easy to make noise but difficult to carry through your promises more so if you promise the moon and stars (but in PPP, we can give the stars that is on our flag and uniform) watch our logo launch : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOs7nYH2PcU.

The Government should now get down to business and leave the politiking until near next election. All this talk about jumping and changing party by MPs should stop now. They all elected as they represent their party not as an independent so for their term in office they must remain with that party. Buying and selling of MPs and their loyalty is very demeaning, as it sounds like they are cattle. The Rakyat have high expectation of them by voting the party so they better live up to it. Again they better behave BERHORMAT to get our hormat and respect.

Datin Dr. Suriani Yahya

Caring By Sharing Positive Views

I have visited a number of the weblog of Malaysian Bloggers ... and have noticed that a majority of the Bloggers in today’s society are only good at pin pointing other people’s mistake and blaming others for their wrong doings. Most of them are simply criticizing for the sake of criticizing without thinking. Some are having fun just by doing that and I strongly feel it is wrong. We have being taught in school when we were young by our teachers not to simply blame others without a good reason. Even in all religion, we have always been taught to share our good views and thoughts for the betterment of society.

In the recent general election, we have seen a number of the Bloggers who are extremely good at complaining were voted in as Wakil Rakyat, Aduns and as Politicians. Newcomers, even people in jail who have only spoke up for a single issue have also being voted in too.

It is my hoped that all Bloggers and Politicians will give constructive criticism with some proposed solutions or views to resolve rather than criticizing for the sake of criticizing and for publicity. For example, we have a veteran Politician like Karpal Singh, just for the sake of publicity and to gain political mileage for himself and the party is just simply giving simplified comments without much thought into how we should tackle the problems or issues. Our opposition parties are good at blaming others for not doing the right things right. But they do not look at themselves and the issues before complaining others are not doing correctly.

I believed as responsible Politicians whether from opposition or not, we should be more caring by sharing good ideas and give positive and constructive comments to remedy the crisis for the good of the country rather than saying the Government are not tackling the crisis correctly.

Let’s be great Politician by sharing constructive thoughts to help our country to rise from any crisis situation and stop playing the blaming game. Together, let’s work and come out with constructive views to resolve whatever crisis which will confront us today and tomorrow. All these we (You and I) are doing for our next and future generations which we called Malaysians.

PPP bersama Komuniti, Wakil Rakyat and Aduns to build a more peaceful, progressive and prosperous Malaysia.

Datuk Nik Sapeia bin Nik Yusof

Onn Jaafar’s Dream – A truly national multiracial party

Tun Mahathir resignation as an Umno member caught everyone by surprise and one politician called it a political earthquake that will shake the party. It is true from the above respondents, whatever Dr. Mahathir does there will be a cause and effect to Umno and for BN too. Some believed his decision has good intention to really help Umno and BN to come to their senses and quickly rebuild the BN dream.

PPP respect Dr. Mahathir’s decision and be independent. As our most respected Mentor, we welcome him to join and work together with us to build a truly national multiracial party in line with Dato’ Sir Onn Jaafar’s dream.

Briefly, Onn Jaafar started UMNO on May 1, 1946 to look after the social economic welfare of the Malays. Later, he was not happy with UMNO’s communalist policies and called for party membership to be opened to all Malayans and UMNO to be renamed to United Malayans National Organisation.

Onn Jaafar's recommendations were not widely accepted and he left UMNO on August 26, 1951 to form the Independence of Malaya Party (IMP). The IMP failed to receive sufficient backing from Malayans and later left to form Parti Negara (PN) to woo Malays from UMNO and restricted other races to join Parti Negara. Neither party, IMP and PN gained popular support against Tunku Abdul Rahman's new Alliance coalition (now known as BN) and he was eventually eclipsed from Malayan political life.

We believe in his dream and let’s come together to build the truly United Malaysian National Organisation within BN and make Onn Jaafar’s dream a reality today and for our future Malaysian generation.

SEGALANYA UNTUK SATU BANGSA DAN SATU NEGARA

Further reading, go to http://www.mysinchew.com/node/11890?tid=14

Dr. Tan Kim Sai

Paradigm Shift of BN leaders - Think beyond multi-racialism

Datuk Dr. M Kayveas, PPP President has been making the statement for many years that BN leaders must think multi-racial and recently 14 May, 2008 the MIC secretary-general Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam is joining PPP in calling the rest of the BN component parties to think likewise.

For the future of BN, it is true there must be a paradigm shift or change in mindset of BN leaders in thinking as one race or Bangsa Malaysia “especially from Umno” quoted by MIC for BN sect-gen to regain the peoples’ support.

MIC ‘doing too little too late’ in supporting our forward thinking “I must think multi-racial” and in sounding out to our brothers in BN had cost us dearly. “MIC too suffered huge losses in the March 8 general election”, he said. “The Indian community staged a silent revolution and had sent a strong message to the party.

Today after the 12th General Election, our two big brothers in BN component parties like MCA and MIC talks about multiracialism in BN. Before the general election, both did not respect the true multiracial party like PPP and were condemning for thinking differently. Even BN-GERAKAN, a multiracial party wanted to destroy another multiracial party like PPP in BN.

Thinking multi-racial is not enough, we must move forward and form the most respected BN multi-racial party by merging the 14 component parties. BN converging to talk about rebranding BN should seriously look at merging the coalition parties. ‘No action talk only’ will only give more opportunities to PKR. Deep in their heart, the Rakyat wants BN to become a truly multiracial party.

Dr. Tan Kim Sai

Get Ready for Snap Election

Referring to the Star paper on Monday, May 26, 2008, the Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman has informed its officers to be prepared for a snap election.

Stressing that he was not one to speculate, Abdul Rashid said the EC was prepared “for anything” and was capable of handling a snap election as it had all necessary infrastructure in place.

In an interview with Star Online yesterday, he revealed that after the post-mortem of the 12th General Election, he had instructed all returning officers (RO) to be prepared for any eventuality.

Similarly, the 140,000 people involved in the general election have also been advised to not refuse when called upon again for duty in the event of a snap election.

“But I don’t want to speculate, and it is not for us to speculate, but we are prepared for anything. In the past two months of meeting with the ROs, I’ve already told them to be prepared as it may be called anytime,” he said.

Abdul Rashid was responding to talk on recent events that have led to speculations of Umno members defecting from the party en masse and even party hopping following Barisan Nasional's dismal showing in the elections.

Various parties have since come forward in favour of an anti-hopping law proposed by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Mohd Zaid Ibrahim in March.

In the same light, tension has been fuelled in Barisan following the shocking announcement of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s resignation from Umno on Monday.

Political observer Dr Chandra Muzaffar said the possibility of a snap election in the near future could not be dismissed.

“However, I do not consider it as a serious possibility, only that in politics, such possibilities cannot not be rejected outright,” he said.

Universiti Putra Malaysia political communications lecturer Associate Prof Dr Abdul Muati @ Zamri Ahmad said it was possible a snap election could take place if MPs were to cross over.

The message from the EC Chairman is clear ....

PPP is prepared and our members are all ready to move our election machinery once the green light is on. Currently, we are updating our membership records, analyzing our membership strengths in respective areas, working closely together with the Communities and to voice out issues and meet their challenges.

Selamat Seperjuangan For A Better Tomorrow

Dr. Tan Kim Sai

PPP - SERVICE WITH A HEART

Welcome to our issues & concerns-based blog - Voice of Community or in Bahasa Malaysia -Bersuara Bersama Komuniti. This blog is managed by PPP Malaysia and the main contributors are mainly from our Ahli Majlis Tertinggi (Supreme Council Members).

For those bloggers from other countries, permit us to introduce our PPP President, Datuk Dr. M Kayveas. He became the President of PPP Malaysia, a component member of the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional, in 1993. Today, PPP is on a strong footing after many years of internal strife within the party. Together with our loyal members, we have worked on growing the party and regaining our past glory. To date, PPP has 580,000 members strong with a network of over 3000 branches throughout the country and 48% of the PPP's membership is Indian, 32% are Chinese, 16% are Malay, and the rest are of other ethnicities.

We created this blog to share our thoughts and ideas with all our Members, Communities, Rakyat and any Visitors to our blog. This blog is meant to be interactive where our Members, Rakyat and Visitors can share their thoughts and ideas with us too to make things better for everyone.

Don't worry, PPP is colour blind. Please feel free to send in your comments, photos, video to us and together we will brainstorm without fear to find a solution for a better tomorrow.

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