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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Datuk Dr. M Kayveas