My 3 strikes out for Khalid Ibrahim

By admin-s Last updated Jul 8, 2014

I didn’t like Khalid Ibrahim from the beginning – sorry, correction to that, not from the very beginning when he was the PKR candidate for the Ijok by-election in 2007 but during the Grand Saga toll fracas just after he became MB Selangor.

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In 2007 I knew nothing about Khalid Ibrahim other than he was the CEO of PNB and later Guthrie, and of course Anwar Ibrahim’s friend when the latter was Finance Minister and DPM. It was a year later that I began to dislike him, though I have to acknowledge as a MB he wasn’t too bad, certainly much better than someone wakakaka. Khalid’s main problem as MB with his Pakatan colleagues has been his propensity to act alone as if he alone runs Selangor.

In 2007 he was, courtesy of Anwar’s say-so, parachuted into Ijok as the PKR candidate despite Anwar’s erstwhile best buddy Nallakaruppan being earlier promised PKR’s candidacy. Anwar’s personal choice was very much against the advice of prominent pro-Pakatan Indian leaders, who were ignored. Thus had/have been the fate of PKR Indians – for more read my post titled Karmic lot of PKR Indians? at my other blog BolehTalk.

The take then was Anwar and PKR wanted to play safe by having a Malay candidate in that Malay majority state seat, a sad reflection on PKR’s claim that it’s a multi-racial party, while BN (effectively UMNO) and supposedly Malay-dominated was the coalition daring enough to put up an Indian candidate, K Parthiban. To add insult to PKR Indian injury, the BN candidate won, wakakaka.

As a side note, this probably marked the beginning of a gradual but unending Indian exodus from PKR.

PKR’s stark cakap ta’serupa bikin-ness in its claimed multi-racial credentials was again shown in Hulu Selangor when it put up Zaid Ibrahim against the BN candidate, Kamalanathan, a MIC man selected by UMNO much against the wishes of MIC (and even UMNO), wakakaka.

Mind you, I would have loved for Zaid Ibrahim to win but then how could he when we heard he was sabo by someone (wakakaka) in PKR who allegedly furnished UMNO with photos of Zaid indiscreetly (within a Muslim context) yamsenging.