People should not get excited over its election manifesto as its track record shows it's simply a ruse to fish for votes, says Baljit Singh
GEORGE TOWN: A local Gerakan leader said the people should not to get carried away with Pakatan Rakyat’s election manifesto because they won’t be able to deliver on it.
State Gerakan legal and human rights bureau head, Baljit Singh, said Pakatan had unrealistically promised many populist programmes just to fish votes to capture Putrajaya.
But once it had helmed the federal government, said Baljit, Pakatan would always resort to its standard modus operandi to justify any non-delivery.
“Pakatan promises the sun and the moon. But people should not get excited over it. Chances are it would not be fulfilled, especially based on Pakatan’s track record,” he said today.
Recalling a quote of Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim that “a manifesto is not a promise”, Baljit said Pakatan may remind the people that it was not obliged to deliver on its election pledges.
He added that Pakatan allies, PKR, DAP and PAS, were operating more as individual parties rather than a single cohesive unit.
“Leaders of one party would always conveniently distance themselves and spurn their joint-responsibility to deliver an election promise made by a leader from another ally.”
‘Pakatan should not give false hopes’
He cited the demolition of Indian traditional urban village, Kampung Buah Pala, commonly known as Tamil High Chaparral, in 2009, to back his claim.
“Anwar told the villagers, “Kalau tak dapat geran dalam satu minggu, nama saya bukan Anwar Ibrahim.” (If the title is not given within a week, my name is not Anwar Ibrahim).
“He promised them that if the then opposition parties came into power, the state government would solve their problem within a week.
“That was in 2008, but at height of the fiasco, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, who is the DAP secretary general, famously said that he never promised anything to villagers.
“Clearly Lim distanced himself from Anwar and spurned his responsibility to deliver on behalf of Pakatan,” said Baljit.
If the first two excuses failed to work, the Gerakan man said Pakatan leaders would always lean back on their favourite blame game and attribute their failings to Barisan Nasional.
He said the DAP-led state government’s threat to take court action to hold local government election in Penang was Pakatan’s latest blame game on BN.
Baljit said the manifesto may not hold water since Pakatan was not a legitimately registered coalition, but an informal loose political pact formed just to oust BN and capture Putrajaya.
“They can’t even agree on a common symbol to get Pakatan registered as a coalition. They are honest, and would operate on separate agendas once the election was over.
“How and who then can voters hold responsible on non-delivery of Pakatan’s manifesto when the coalition was not even a legitimate political block? Are citizens being duped here?
“Pakatan should not give people false hopes and promises,” said Baljit.
- See more at: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/03/01/pakatan-wont-deliver-says-gerakan/#sthash.feOEu75d.dpuf
State Gerakan legal and human rights bureau head, Baljit Singh, said Pakatan had unrealistically promised many populist programmes just to fish votes to capture Putrajaya.
But once it had helmed the federal government, said Baljit, Pakatan would always resort to its standard modus operandi to justify any non-delivery.
“Pakatan promises the sun and the moon. But people should not get excited over it. Chances are it would not be fulfilled, especially based on Pakatan’s track record,” he said today.
Recalling a quote of Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim that “a manifesto is not a promise”, Baljit said Pakatan may remind the people that it was not obliged to deliver on its election pledges.
He added that Pakatan allies, PKR, DAP and PAS, were operating more as individual parties rather than a single cohesive unit.
“Leaders of one party would always conveniently distance themselves and spurn their joint-responsibility to deliver an election promise made by a leader from another ally.”
‘Pakatan should not give false hopes’
He cited the demolition of Indian traditional urban village, Kampung Buah Pala, commonly known as Tamil High Chaparral, in 2009, to back his claim.
“Anwar told the villagers, “Kalau tak dapat geran dalam satu minggu, nama saya bukan Anwar Ibrahim.” (If the title is not given within a week, my name is not Anwar Ibrahim).
“He promised them that if the then opposition parties came into power, the state government would solve their problem within a week.
“That was in 2008, but at height of the fiasco, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, who is the DAP secretary general, famously said that he never promised anything to villagers.
“Clearly Lim distanced himself from Anwar and spurned his responsibility to deliver on behalf of Pakatan,” said Baljit.
If the first two excuses failed to work, the Gerakan man said Pakatan leaders would always lean back on their favourite blame game and attribute their failings to Barisan Nasional.
He said the DAP-led state government’s threat to take court action to hold local government election in Penang was Pakatan’s latest blame game on BN.
Baljit said the manifesto may not hold water since Pakatan was not a legitimately registered coalition, but an informal loose political pact formed just to oust BN and capture Putrajaya.
“They can’t even agree on a common symbol to get Pakatan registered as a coalition. They are honest, and would operate on separate agendas once the election was over.
“How and who then can voters hold responsible on non-delivery of Pakatan’s manifesto when the coalition was not even a legitimate political block? Are citizens being duped here?
“Pakatan should not give people false hopes and promises,” said Baljit.
- See more at: http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/03/01/pakatan-wont-deliver-says-gerakan/#sthash.feOEu75d.dpuf
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