Dear Friends,
Anybody who stood under the Pakatan Rakyat flagship could have won in Penang urban areas in 2008 general election.
The political awakening for a change was so strong among Penang’s half-million voters that the electoral wave swept aside 29 Barisan Nasional candidates in 40 state constituencies.Penangites overwhelmingly voted for a change to get rid of BN once for all from their island state.
But in their rush to effect the change, they also overlooked many shortcomings of PR candidates.Then they could not be bothered about PR candidates’ credentials so long they had the satisfaction of voting out BN representatives.However, after a 18-month rule, the DAP-dominated PR government under Chief Minister Kapitan Lim Guan Eng has exposed its incompetency, non-accountability and non-transparency.
The Penang government has proven to be indecisive and flappable at its best.
Kapitan Lim along with his mandores, arrogantly, is more interested in politicking that being a political leader with the people’s interests in his heart. So they have created a stable of cybertroopers whose job is to malign, to spread falsehoods and to deceive the very people who supported them in getting elected.The cyber troopers include well paid staff to smash any criticisms levelled at Kapitan Lim and his mandores.
These teams of cyber troopers are well oiled and marshalled by elected representatives and leading DAP playmakers.
These cyber troopers target and hate certain reporters and individual civil group leaders and had been carrying out smearing character assassination campaigns at all costs to undermine their credibility.
Even fathers of these cyber troopers are learnt to be very active in writing and posting poison pen letters on targeted people.
One such father-son combination had done so much damage on individuals, journalists, social activists and lately on Kampung Buah Pala residents through their venomous anti-social campaign.It’s absolutely shameful and disgraceful for an elected representative to be involved in such low class underhand tactics to undermine his opponents.Indian elected representatives in Penang have performed remarkably well so far in fronting against the Indians for the Chinese chauvinist party.
During his electoral campaign last year, these DAP Indian mandores were yelling and barking out Hindraf mantra - ‘Makkal Sakti’ ‘Makkal Sakti’, everywhere. Some of them even promised to donate their monthly assembly income, if they were elected as state representatives, to the families of the Hindraf 5, who were detained then under the draconian Internal Security Act.But, until today they have not donated a single sen to any of them. Instead, since been elected, they were more actively carrying out a smearing campaign to tarnish Hindraf, mostly via anonymous SMSes and cyber sniping.
These mandores promised to save Kampung Buah Pala as an Indian heritage village for Penangites.
But the village now remains dust and sand.These mandores vowed to stop the village demolition over their dead bodies.
One of them had even said publicly that he would stand before the demolition machines to stop the village destruction. But during the demolition exercise, none of them could be sighted in the village.
Sources said they did not even entertain phone calls during the demolition, leaving the residents hopelessly, helplessly and haplessly at the mercy of the rampaging developer’s demolition team.
The village is now dead and buried, but we could not find the bodies of these mandores in its debris and rubbles.
One wonders whether the mandores remember their promises or not.Of course when Kapitan Lim himself could not keep his words, one shall not bet on his mandores to fulfill their vows.
During the last general election campaign, a mandore promised to renovate and refurbish two blocks of abandoned low-cost flats in Taman Tun Sardon.Now after being elected, the mandore is yet to bring up the issue at any forum. People in his own area are deprived of houses and as an elected representative he could not be bothered to speak for them.Since, after winning the election, he is yet to visit the area, let alone paying a courtesy call on the abandoned flats.
However, these mandores are not that bad performers in other fronts though.They have proven that they were swift in damaging others’ credibility. Someone said that they have now adopted cyber sniping as their favourite hobby.One shall also admire these mandores’ guts of threatening social activists, individuals, reporters, media organisations, villagers with civil suits whenever the going gets tough.
The DAP Indian mandores collected millions from the Malaysian public for the Tamil cause in Sri Lanka.The fund’s accounts were never revealed and no one knows what happened to the money.They now owe a public explanation on the Sri Lanka Tamil fund.
One mandore used his service centre logo to organise a fund-raising dinner immediately after being elected in March 2008.Firstly the dinner was unlawful because using one’s assembly service centre as the organiser was against the government legal mechanism.Government shall not indulge in public donation.The mandore is yet to reveal, until today, the accounts of the dinner proceeds.
Kapitan Lim and his Indian mandores have also successfully manipulated the media and residents in the Kampung Buah Pala fiasco.
They portrayed themselves as KBP champions when in truth, they cheated the people and flopped big time.
The mandores brought in a Dato JK to KBP pretending to help the villagers to secure a better compensation deal from the government.
But, coincidently since the Dato’s arrival, the villagers split party, agreed to the shoddy compensation deal and paved way for the demolition.
Now the Dato’ is reportedly getting a lucrative contract to build monorail infrastructure project in Batu Kawan constituency.Batu Kawan parliamentarian is the Penang DAP chief Indian mandore.
PR has six Indians elected representative in Penang, but none of them could stop KBP demolition.Two of the mandores were elected representatives for KBP residents. Having more Indian representatives in PR clearly proved to be useless for the Indians.
It’s more of a curse than a blessing.
In next election, one cannot anticipate Penangites to be in the same mood for change.
PR cannot take things for granted.It should get rid of its unreliable non-performing representatives.
The mandores should be axed from candidacy.
Otherwise the PR government would just be a one-term wonder.
By Megat Jittendran
Anybody who stood under the Pakatan Rakyat flagship could have won in Penang urban areas in 2008 general election.
The political awakening for a change was so strong among Penang’s half-million voters that the electoral wave swept aside 29 Barisan Nasional candidates in 40 state constituencies.Penangites overwhelmingly voted for a change to get rid of BN once for all from their island state.
But in their rush to effect the change, they also overlooked many shortcomings of PR candidates.Then they could not be bothered about PR candidates’ credentials so long they had the satisfaction of voting out BN representatives.However, after a 18-month rule, the DAP-dominated PR government under Chief Minister Kapitan Lim Guan Eng has exposed its incompetency, non-accountability and non-transparency.
The Penang government has proven to be indecisive and flappable at its best.
Kapitan Lim along with his mandores, arrogantly, is more interested in politicking that being a political leader with the people’s interests in his heart. So they have created a stable of cybertroopers whose job is to malign, to spread falsehoods and to deceive the very people who supported them in getting elected.The cyber troopers include well paid staff to smash any criticisms levelled at Kapitan Lim and his mandores.
These teams of cyber troopers are well oiled and marshalled by elected representatives and leading DAP playmakers.
These cyber troopers target and hate certain reporters and individual civil group leaders and had been carrying out smearing character assassination campaigns at all costs to undermine their credibility.
Even fathers of these cyber troopers are learnt to be very active in writing and posting poison pen letters on targeted people.
One such father-son combination had done so much damage on individuals, journalists, social activists and lately on Kampung Buah Pala residents through their venomous anti-social campaign.It’s absolutely shameful and disgraceful for an elected representative to be involved in such low class underhand tactics to undermine his opponents.Indian elected representatives in Penang have performed remarkably well so far in fronting against the Indians for the Chinese chauvinist party.
During his electoral campaign last year, these DAP Indian mandores were yelling and barking out Hindraf mantra - ‘Makkal Sakti’ ‘Makkal Sakti’, everywhere. Some of them even promised to donate their monthly assembly income, if they were elected as state representatives, to the families of the Hindraf 5, who were detained then under the draconian Internal Security Act.But, until today they have not donated a single sen to any of them. Instead, since been elected, they were more actively carrying out a smearing campaign to tarnish Hindraf, mostly via anonymous SMSes and cyber sniping.
These mandores promised to save Kampung Buah Pala as an Indian heritage village for Penangites.
But the village now remains dust and sand.These mandores vowed to stop the village demolition over their dead bodies.
One of them had even said publicly that he would stand before the demolition machines to stop the village destruction. But during the demolition exercise, none of them could be sighted in the village.
Sources said they did not even entertain phone calls during the demolition, leaving the residents hopelessly, helplessly and haplessly at the mercy of the rampaging developer’s demolition team.
The village is now dead and buried, but we could not find the bodies of these mandores in its debris and rubbles.
One wonders whether the mandores remember their promises or not.Of course when Kapitan Lim himself could not keep his words, one shall not bet on his mandores to fulfill their vows.
During the last general election campaign, a mandore promised to renovate and refurbish two blocks of abandoned low-cost flats in Taman Tun Sardon.Now after being elected, the mandore is yet to bring up the issue at any forum. People in his own area are deprived of houses and as an elected representative he could not be bothered to speak for them.Since, after winning the election, he is yet to visit the area, let alone paying a courtesy call on the abandoned flats.
However, these mandores are not that bad performers in other fronts though.They have proven that they were swift in damaging others’ credibility. Someone said that they have now adopted cyber sniping as their favourite hobby.One shall also admire these mandores’ guts of threatening social activists, individuals, reporters, media organisations, villagers with civil suits whenever the going gets tough.
The DAP Indian mandores collected millions from the Malaysian public for the Tamil cause in Sri Lanka.The fund’s accounts were never revealed and no one knows what happened to the money.They now owe a public explanation on the Sri Lanka Tamil fund.
One mandore used his service centre logo to organise a fund-raising dinner immediately after being elected in March 2008.Firstly the dinner was unlawful because using one’s assembly service centre as the organiser was against the government legal mechanism.Government shall not indulge in public donation.The mandore is yet to reveal, until today, the accounts of the dinner proceeds.
Kapitan Lim and his Indian mandores have also successfully manipulated the media and residents in the Kampung Buah Pala fiasco.
They portrayed themselves as KBP champions when in truth, they cheated the people and flopped big time.
The mandores brought in a Dato JK to KBP pretending to help the villagers to secure a better compensation deal from the government.
But, coincidently since the Dato’s arrival, the villagers split party, agreed to the shoddy compensation deal and paved way for the demolition.
Now the Dato’ is reportedly getting a lucrative contract to build monorail infrastructure project in Batu Kawan constituency.Batu Kawan parliamentarian is the Penang DAP chief Indian mandore.
PR has six Indians elected representative in Penang, but none of them could stop KBP demolition.Two of the mandores were elected representatives for KBP residents. Having more Indian representatives in PR clearly proved to be useless for the Indians.
It’s more of a curse than a blessing.
In next election, one cannot anticipate Penangites to be in the same mood for change.
PR cannot take things for granted.It should get rid of its unreliable non-performing representatives.
The mandores should be axed from candidacy.
Otherwise the PR government would just be a one-term wonder.
By Megat Jittendran
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