KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 - Umno needs greater change than just removing the president to be relevant and further lead Malaysia, Datuk Nur Jazlan said today.
The surprise candidate for the Umno deputy presidency said the party needs thorough changes from bottom to top.
"We cannot afford to have the same people heading divisions and the top leadership from 20 years ago and still around for more years to come just shuffling their posts. The post is a platform for change, not to warm the seat and fend off change and challenges," the outspoken Pulai MP told The Malaysian Insider.
The son of former Umno secretary-general Tan Sri Mohamed Rahmat said that the party needed to regain its "credibility to ensure social justice and the economy benefits all, that no one is denied their rights or mired in poverty in the nation from Kuala Perlis down to Kuala Lumpur and Johor Baru and across the South China Sea through Kuching and to the eastern most tip in Semporna."
To achieve this, Nur Jazlan said that the civil service must be directed to implement the policies that have been set.
"The civil service have failed the people, the government and Umno. We need to take the lead to be more accountable.
"We do not need to shelter behind extra judicial laws as we all have arrived as Malaysians," said the former Umno Youth exco member who had called for president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to quit after the March 8 electoral debacle.
Nur Jazlan, who is also defending the chairmanship of the Pulai division, said that because the "voices of the president and the deputy are heard and followed," he would need to be in one of these positions to drive the changes.
"I'm not a part of the establishment but the voice of change and have some ideas to effect the change without being bogged down by baggage or inertia," he declared.
"The change needs no signals. I am decisive and proactive, not reactive or to wait for others to decide before I should decide.
Saying it was time for the young to take a leading role in the party, the Pulai division chief remarked that,
"The supreme council appears to like a herd of deer caught in the headlights of a train coming down the tracks. Everything they do now seem to be knee jerk reaction to events."
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