Dragging the palace into politics
PAS is already losing its credibility big time. It should at last guard whatever little it has left. Sabotaging DAP’s and PKR’s effort to make Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail the new Menteri Besar of Selangor and telling Malaysians that HRH the Sultan of Selangor is behind this sabotage is taking Machiavellian politics a bit too far.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
PKR’s strategic director, Rafizi Ramli, claims that the leaked secret documents behind the Kajang Move were fabricated and not authentic at all (SEE HERE).
PKR’s communications director, Fahmi Fadzil, in turn said, “Anyone who reads Rafizi’s blog when the Kajang move was first announced would know that he referred to the strategy as ‘Serampang Kajang’, and not ‘Langkah Kajang’.”
So there you have it. The Kajang Move was never called the Kajang Move. It was called Serampang Kajang. Hence those documents are false. Hence, also, the news item by the party’s newspaper, Keadilan Daily, which reported it as Langkah Kajang (SEE BELOW), is also false.
That clears that one up and removes whatever confusion we had, because for the last nine months or so every man and his dog has been talking about the Kajang Move and for the first time today we finally found out the truth. It is actually called Serampang Kajang.
Yesterday, Selangor PAS Youth Chief, Suhaizan Kayat, said that his party proposed Azmin Ali as the second candidate for Selangor Menteri Besar after Abdul Hadi Awang’s meeting with His Royal Highness the Sultan of Selangor.
“The PAS president has relatively good ties with the Selangor Palace. On the fourth day of Syawal, he was summoned to appear before the Sultan. As a result, the president made the decision that an alternative nominee must be presented to face eventualities involving the palace and Datuk Seri Wan Azizah,” said Suhaizan.
I remember PAS was the same party that organised a demonstration in front of HRH the Sultan of Perak’s palace in Kuala Kangsar and threw stones at HRH’s car. PAS screamed about palace interference in politics and vilified the Sultan to kingdom come.
And now PAS is doing the opposite. PAS is breaking ranks with Pakatan Rakyat by insisting on two names when they had earlier agreed on one name (after earlier agreeing on two names) and they are telling us about a private meeting with HRH the Sultan and that it is the Sultan who insists on these two names.
What game is PAS playing? If they want two names then propose two names. If they want to defy DAP and PKR then defy DAP and PKR. But why should they blame HRH the Sultan for this and say that the Sultan made them do it.
If HRH the Sultan did command PAS to propose two names would this not be palace interference in politics? And if you agree to palace interference in politics in Selangor why rant, rave, shout and scream about palace interference in Perak?
PAS is already losing its credibility big time. It should at last guard whatever little it has left. Sabotaging DAP’s and PKR’s effort to make Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail the new Menteri Besar of Selangor and telling Malaysians that HRH the Sultan of Selangor is behind this sabotage is taking Machiavellian politics a bit too far.
Even Machiavelli had his limits and he was not even a Muslim who upheld Islamic values or nilai-nilai Islam. I am beginning to wonder whether Islam is any longer the agenda of PAS or are some people in PAS planted moles of Umno who are being paid handsomely to break up Pakatan Rakyat (and blame the Sultan for this breakup)?
