Is PKR the spoiler in PH?

I fail to understand why PKR leaders are making statements that appear to diminish the progress made by Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Hindraf in influencing voters.

By Azlina Harun, Free Malaysia Today

I am not affiliated to any party but merely making this observation based on the conduct of some PKR leaders.

First, Tian Chua rants about Indian votes being irrelevant in Kuala Lumpur after the redelineation, which is absurd when almost seven seats in KL have more than 10% Indian votes. The creation of the super Malay seats and super Chinese seats, as claimed by him, in reality puts the Indians in a more important role as kingmaker.

Now, we have PKR’s Rafizi Ramli claiming Dr Mahathir Mohamad will not cause a Malay tsunami.

I seriously wonder what kind of role INVOKE is playing with its so-called research. It is obvious that it is PKR-funded and reaches out to their own objectives rather than the one that Pakatan Harapan (PH) advocates.

Rafizi claims that non-Malays are not comfortable with Mahathir but I beg to differ. During the Reformasi period in 1999 (10th general election or GE10), the Malay votes were split and those who backed Mahathir to win the election with a 2/3 majority were the non-Malays.

In 2004 (GE11), the opposition was whipped, with PKR winning only one parliamentary seat.

Then in 2008 (GE12), Hindraf, representing the minority Indians, became the major catalyst causing a swing in Indian, Chinese and Malay votes that broke the 2/3 majority the BN had in Parliament.

Now in GE14, just before the election bells start ringing, PKR bigwigs are throwing a spanner into the works by claiming that Indian votes are irrelevant and Mahathir will not cause a Malay tsunami.

Among members of the opposition pact, PKR is the one facing the most division as we see the existence of three different factions – one led by Anwar Ibrahim, one by Azmin Ali and the third by Rafizi. Not only is it that they can’t sort out their own affairs, they also appear to disrupt the cohesion of the PH.

Mahathir has been making headway in more than 50 parliamentary constituencies in Felda areas currently held by Umno and which had been fortresses that Malay leaders in PKR, including Anwar, were not able to penetrate.

Hindraf, with its strong foothold in the semi-rural and rural areas, has made tremendous progress in convincing the Indians to support PH. Again PKR Indian leaders had been unable to penetrate such areas.

I fail to see why PKR bigwigs are coming out with such unsubstantiated statements.

PKR’s continuing in-house struggle should stay in-house unless there is some other agenda PKR is running to disrupt the progress that Mahathir is making in swinging the Malay semi- rural and rural votes towards PH.