The necessary Malay-nization of DAP
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To be frank I have not been personally comfy with the choice of Ramkarpal Singh Deo as the DAP’s candidate for Gelugor. Now, my unease has nothing, nothing at all, to do with Ramkarpal’s competency to be an excellent people’s representative (he will definitely be) nor about the allegations of nepotism because Ramkarpal himself has answered that unfair allegation most clearly and competently – see TMI’s Nepotism not an issue in Gelugor.
Mind, I would ask DAP to be on alert as the EC may do to him what the court has done to his late father (Huan’s wet dream wakakaka), and the Home Ministry now wants to do with Teresa Kok. BN has wet dreams about removing DAP MPs and potential MPs from parliament by disqualifying them one way or another, …
… because I suspect UMNO is so shit scared of the DAP that it has even (again my suspicion) in the persons of ministers Jamil Khir Baharom and Mustapha Mohamed lulled, lured, lasso-ed and led stray PAS with the belief that UMNO will support the implementation of hudud in Kelantan, wherein its real aim is to split the Pakatan duo asunder ….. and sadly, I assess UMNO has succeeded.
Back to Gelugor, I was not all that happy with Gelugor going to a DAP non-Malay. Yes, I had hoped for DAP to nominate a Malay candidate for the seat left vacated by my hero, the late Karpal Singh.
And if I have my ‘rathers’, then my personal choice would be a DAP party old-timer, Zulkifli Mohd Noor who, alas for me, has not been/is not on good terms with Lim Senior and Junior.
Zul has been a DAP member for 26 years, way before many of his current abusive online PR critics had grown their first pubic hair, wakakaka. Zul was once a VP of the party.
In 2004 he was the DAP candidate for Bukit Bendera and acquired quite a credible showing where he won a massive 18,000 votes out of a maximum possible of 47,000.
As I had blogged previously (many years ago), the DAP might have partial claim to their avowed multi-ethnic credentials – for example, they have put up many Indian candidates who have been voted successfully into both federal Parliament and State Assemblies.
Unfortunately, until 2013 only one of its Malay candidates, Ahmad Nor, was ever successful. Zul could have been the second had he stood again in 2008.
But I am so delighted to see that in the 2013 general and state elections, the DAP has Ariff Sabri (better known to us as blogger Sakmongol AK47) and my MP Zairil Khir as federal MPs, andTengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puri as the opposition leader in the Pahang DUN. So will you just look at the sterling work done by them.
DAP could possibly have been blessed by another brilliant young Malaysian in NS if a very unhappy senior person (who I once adored) had not somehow suffered a sad case of noblesse oblige missing. Wakakaka.
Back to Zul – yes, it was in a Chinese-majority Bukit Bendera in Penang that Zul made a most decent mark in the general elections, by winning nearly 18000 of the 47000 votes, and that’s no mean feat if we look at the ethnic breakdown. The Chinese-majority federal seat had 13.82% Malays, 73.97% Chinese and 11.07% Indians plus a sprinkling of 1.14% Thais, Eurasian, etc.
