FROM HORSES' MOUTHS

 FROM HORSES' MOUTHS  

June 19^th 2011 - The Sunday Post (pg1 & 4)

Ex- YB Datuk David Teng (SUPP Treasurer) asserted that the Chinese community will embrace Barisan Nasional (BN) again if the ruling government adapts to changes and reviews certain policies  “.... SUPP’s massive defeats during the recent state general election was caused by dissatisfaction because of (unsettled) issues arose from policies of BN  affecting the Chinese communities ... Chinese are agile, elastic and realists ... The spring-cleaning must be launched... every Barisan Nasional component is obliged ....The largest component in particular should not shun the obligation ... the largest party (=PBB) essentially influences the whole Barisan Nasional .... BN had been in power for a long time ... in dire need of spring-cleaning .......wise and courageous  leader must take up the challenge to see through a spring-cleaning ...”

June 20^th 2011 (Monday) The Borneo Post (Pg 5)


Re-elected YB Abdul Karim answered  “Look at yourself in the mirror.... David Teng is still in ‘sleeping mode’ ... not able to see that the whole problem rest within SUPP which need total overhaul ...  (Their loses have) nothing to do with certain policies of BN. SUPP is in dire need of ‘total overhaul’ because ... If their rejection of SUPP is purely due to the policies of BN, then how come PBB and the other BN component parties managed to deliver all or most of their seats?... that no government was free of weaknesses, the public were matured enough to see through such weaknesses”.

Comments

The assertion made by Datuk David Teng [quoted above] and the answer given by YB Abdul Karin [also quoted above] are points worth considering. Facts stated above  make good ‘food-for-thoughts’.

The facts: "Chinese are agile, elastic and realists” implied that the Chinese communities were more than generally better and capable (education-wise, thinking-wise, business-wise .... wise .....wise.... wisely guided by Sun Tzu’s Arts of War) than other communities in Sarawak (patricularly so the Dayak- communities at large)  in seeing, analyzing, seizing, exploiting and maximizing socio-economic benefits and business opportunities from within and outside BN policies (past and future).  

Where SUPP had ‘failed [because of ‘political taboos’] in rectifying’ BN’s policies affecting the bulk of Chinese communities, DAP did its convincing job successfully in ‘saying’ and ‘exposing’ the ‘flaws’ in BN’s policies.

Being mainly Chinese-based and Chinese-supported party (until now), it follows that DAP is also “agile, elastic and realists” typifying the characters of the Chinese communities as described (above) by Datuk David Teng.  In its political agility, DAP had formulated strategic plan(s) to expand outside their urban-controlled seats to “litmus-test” its brand of politics  in [selected] native-dominated rural constituencies. For DAP to turn ‘red’ to ‘blue’ (or vice-versa)  in the test, it must [through its own-designed rural-support-winning programme] conduct intensive, massive and progressive ‘mind-turning-cum-tuning’ aimed at de-conditioning and/or  de-freezing the ‘well-established BN-infused values’ which are already rooted deeply in mind-sets of majority of the rural voters. Toward that objective, DAP already spoke openly of its intention and took  one strategic step forward by proposing ‘merger between DAP and SNAP. 

If SUPP trully felt that its defeat was largely because of certain BN’s policies which undermined SUPP's credibility, it was rightly pointed by YB Abdul Karim that  the problem “rest within SUPP”.  It appeared that it was  SUPP's  leadership falure in exerting its influences within BN and allowed itself to be weakened when the democratic choice of its leadership was controlled externally.

SPDP- PRS/BN losses

Why SPDP lost Krian and Ba’kelalan?  According to Tan Sri William Mawan : “Krian and Ba’kelalan  lost because we don’t know how to tell lie” [Quoted from: The Star, Sarawak Thursday 16^th June 2011]. The statement and argument seemed to imply that “those who won the election told better lies than who lost the election”.

As for PRS, the party reportedly filed an election petition to justify its loss aimed at nullifying the result of the election in Pelagus. It will be of public  interest to watch what would happen to the election petition especially so in the event that YB George Lagong applied and accepted to become a member of PRS.


Cheers !