LIM GUAN ENG – THE LAST NON-MELAYU CHIEF MINISTER OF PULAU PINANG? – PART II.
… MCA AND GERAKAN BETTER ACCEPT THIS NEW SCENARIO THAT PULAU PINANG TODAY IS NOT LIKE IT WAS BEFORE.
By Mansor Puteh
IN FACT, KUALA LUMPUR TODAY IS ALSO NOT LIKE IT WAS BEFORE, A CHINESE-DOMINATED CITY. IT IS A MELAYU-DOMINATED CITY NOW AS MUCH AS FOR MOST OF THE COUNTRY, NEVER MIND SHAHALAM, PUTRAJAYA, MELAWATI AND OF COURSE, THE NORTHERN STATES.
FOREIGN TOURISTS HAVE ALSO BEEN KNOWN TO REMARK THAT KUALA LUMPUR IS ‘A MELAYU CITY.’
THIS CAN BE MORE SO WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF KAMPUNG BARU AS A NEW TOWN CENTER OF THE MELAYU SO THE CITY WILL NOW HAVE A NEW SHIFT IN FOCUS.
The non-Melayu political parties in Malaysia can be reduced in stature and become no more than social and cultural clubs where their leaders meet to play mahjong or do taichi everyday.
And there’s no way for the MCA and Gerakan to demand one of its members in the state assembly to take up the post from Guan Eng. It is not tenable in the current circumstances and changed political scenario unless if they want to continue to sit on the wrong side in the state assembly like they do now.
It is also unfortunate that he is not from any of the Barisan component parties, such as the Gerakan or MCA, but DAP.
The presence of these non-Melayu parties are at the tender mercies of the Melayu. If there is a single Melayu and Muslim party, there is no need for politicking in the country since most of the parliament and state constituencies are Melayu-dominated anyway.
In any case, the future of Pulau Pinang may force that the status quo in the state changes with the change in the demographic and population profile where the Melayu are in the majority.
Statistics show that the population of the Melayu are in fact the majority in the state.
This makes Guan Eng’s tenure as chief minister of the state not tenable, even now. It will be worse in the next general election.
Therefore, the Pakatan government in Pulau Pinang is a minority rule, meaning that the chief minister is not representing the majority race.
And the MCA and Gerakan which had insisted that the post of the chief minister of the state be given to a Chinese member of their party must adapt to the change in population size which is perhaps the most important factor in their simplistic computation of things political, racial and religious.
That it will be Umno or any Melayu from Pakatan who should be appointed the next chief minister of Pulau Pinang.
In fact, the fall of Pulau Pinang to Pakatan in the 8 March, 2008 general elections can be attributed to the bickering the Chinese politicians in the Barisan fold who had insisted that someone from their parties be appointed the post of chief minister of the state.
And this is despite the fact that Barisan has more Melayu in the state executive assembly.
This didn’t matter to the MCA and Gerakan.
And no wonder, they lost many state seats in the state because the Melayu who had always voted for Umno and Barisan in the past elections had decided to teach the MCA and Gerakan leaders not to be too communal.
This is Pulau Pinang. This is not Penang or British Penang. This is a Melayu state of Pulau Pinang, so a Melayu must be its chief minister.
So Guan Eng must be lucky to have been given the post by his party.
It is not a wise decision.
So no wonder he is feeling like his head is being hit by ‘pinang’ fruits falling from the skies everyday now.
The reason being he is an outsider. He has not been able to assimilate well with the local people and understand their sensibilities.
But he is lucky to be the current chief minister of the state. His worse accolade is for being the last Chinese chief minister of Pulau Pinang, although he prefers to call it Penang like he likes to live under the British administration of Penang.
So in many ways, he is more than five decades too late for the state.
I am from Melaka but a long-time resident of Selangor. I first bumped into Lim Guan Eng when he and a friend of mine, Chandra Muzaffar were campaigning for PKR in the previous general elections at an apartment building in Cheras.
The next time I bumped into him was outside of a local convenience store in Jalan Bendahara in Melaka. He had gone out of the store as I was getting out of my car. He seemed startled seeing me, especially when I was wearing dark glasses. He probably thought someone from Bukit Aman had come to accost him. There was such a fear that I could detect on his face. I pitied him for constantly being in such a state then.
His now pretends he is still very much in demand by the people in Pulau Pinang, with all sorts of scandals that are happening there which involve him or his party.
But the truth is, he will go down in the history of Pulau Pinang as not only a one-term chief minister, but also the last non-Melayu one in the state.
In fact, there is no Indian majority area in the whole country today, so the presence of the Indians and Chinese in Malaysian politics even today is because of bickering and the breaking up of the Melayu votes by Barisan and Pakatan.
In other words, if there is Melayu unity and if there is a single political party for the Melayu and Muslims in the country, the other non-Melayu political parties’ status will be changed to that of the social and cultural clubs where their leaders meet at their headquarters to play mahjong or do taichi everyday.
By Mansor Puteh
IN FACT, KUALA LUMPUR TODAY IS ALSO NOT LIKE IT WAS BEFORE, A CHINESE-DOMINATED CITY. IT IS A MELAYU-DOMINATED CITY NOW AS MUCH AS FOR MOST OF THE COUNTRY, NEVER MIND SHAHALAM, PUTRAJAYA, MELAWATI AND OF COURSE, THE NORTHERN STATES.
FOREIGN TOURISTS HAVE ALSO BEEN KNOWN TO REMARK THAT KUALA LUMPUR IS ‘A MELAYU CITY.’
THIS CAN BE MORE SO WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF KAMPUNG BARU AS A NEW TOWN CENTER OF THE MELAYU SO THE CITY WILL NOW HAVE A NEW SHIFT IN FOCUS.
The non-Melayu political parties in Malaysia can be reduced in stature and become no more than social and cultural clubs where their leaders meet to play mahjong or do taichi everyday.
And there’s no way for the MCA and Gerakan to demand one of its members in the state assembly to take up the post from Guan Eng. It is not tenable in the current circumstances and changed political scenario unless if they want to continue to sit on the wrong side in the state assembly like they do now.
It is also unfortunate that he is not from any of the Barisan component parties, such as the Gerakan or MCA, but DAP.
The presence of these non-Melayu parties are at the tender mercies of the Melayu. If there is a single Melayu and Muslim party, there is no need for politicking in the country since most of the parliament and state constituencies are Melayu-dominated anyway.
In any case, the future of Pulau Pinang may force that the status quo in the state changes with the change in the demographic and population profile where the Melayu are in the majority.
Statistics show that the population of the Melayu are in fact the majority in the state.
This makes Guan Eng’s tenure as chief minister of the state not tenable, even now. It will be worse in the next general election.
Therefore, the Pakatan government in Pulau Pinang is a minority rule, meaning that the chief minister is not representing the majority race.
And the MCA and Gerakan which had insisted that the post of the chief minister of the state be given to a Chinese member of their party must adapt to the change in population size which is perhaps the most important factor in their simplistic computation of things political, racial and religious.
That it will be Umno or any Melayu from Pakatan who should be appointed the next chief minister of Pulau Pinang.
In fact, the fall of Pulau Pinang to Pakatan in the 8 March, 2008 general elections can be attributed to the bickering the Chinese politicians in the Barisan fold who had insisted that someone from their parties be appointed the post of chief minister of the state.
And this is despite the fact that Barisan has more Melayu in the state executive assembly.
This didn’t matter to the MCA and Gerakan.
And no wonder, they lost many state seats in the state because the Melayu who had always voted for Umno and Barisan in the past elections had decided to teach the MCA and Gerakan leaders not to be too communal.
This is Pulau Pinang. This is not Penang or British Penang. This is a Melayu state of Pulau Pinang, so a Melayu must be its chief minister.
So Guan Eng must be lucky to have been given the post by his party.
It is not a wise decision.
So no wonder he is feeling like his head is being hit by ‘pinang’ fruits falling from the skies everyday now.
The reason being he is an outsider. He has not been able to assimilate well with the local people and understand their sensibilities.
But he is lucky to be the current chief minister of the state. His worse accolade is for being the last Chinese chief minister of Pulau Pinang, although he prefers to call it Penang like he likes to live under the British administration of Penang.
So in many ways, he is more than five decades too late for the state.
I am from Melaka but a long-time resident of Selangor. I first bumped into Lim Guan Eng when he and a friend of mine, Chandra Muzaffar were campaigning for PKR in the previous general elections at an apartment building in Cheras.
The next time I bumped into him was outside of a local convenience store in Jalan Bendahara in Melaka. He had gone out of the store as I was getting out of my car. He seemed startled seeing me, especially when I was wearing dark glasses. He probably thought someone from Bukit Aman had come to accost him. There was such a fear that I could detect on his face. I pitied him for constantly being in such a state then.
His now pretends he is still very much in demand by the people in Pulau Pinang, with all sorts of scandals that are happening there which involve him or his party.
But the truth is, he will go down in the history of Pulau Pinang as not only a one-term chief minister, but also the last non-Melayu one in the state.
In fact, there is no Indian majority area in the whole country today, so the presence of the Indians and Chinese in Malaysian politics even today is because of bickering and the breaking up of the Melayu votes by Barisan and Pakatan.
In other words, if there is Melayu unity and if there is a single political party for the Melayu and Muslims in the country, the other non-Melayu political parties’ status will be changed to that of the social and cultural clubs where their leaders meet at their headquarters to play mahjong or do taichi everyday.
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