What If Mahathir And Kit Siang Are Cheating Again?
Karamjit Gill
Watching Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and Lim Kit Siang sharing screen space together reminds me of the World Wrestling Entertainment. Two wrestlers can be sworn enemies tearing each other apart for months and the next moment become best friends to the extend of becoming tag team partners. It is all too melodramatic.
Just the last GE, Mahathir urged the people of Gelang Patah to end Kit Siang’s political career. He mocked Kit Siang by saying Malaysia already had six prime ministers thus far but DAP is led by the same person since.
In response, Kit Siang challenged Mahathir to stand against him in the elections and see whose political career ends. Kit Siang then alleged that Mahathir is the de-facto prime minister because Datuk Seri Najib sings to Mahathir’s tune. He insinuated that Mahathir would go against anybody who did not listen to him, citing Tun Abdullah Badawi as an example.
In just five years, they are holding hands walking together. Perhaps it is time to end the political careers of both chameleons. Mahathir has admitted that his stand against DAP throughout his career was just politically motivated as DAP was his enemy then.
Likewise, he clarified that all things said against him was just ‘politics’ and nothing was really true. So, these people have taken the whole country for a ride for decades and spoke against each other to stay in power?
Shouldn’t anybody be held accountable for such deceit? Shouldn’t Mahathir’s chedet be called an archive of fiction then? If this happened in a developed nation, citizens would have driven Mahathir to court by now for decades of lies and hoodwinking.
Only in Malaysia, that boasts a third world mentality, people would turn a blind eye to bring the conniving veteran back to the helm.
Caretaker deputy chief minister of Penang Prof Dr. Ramasamy’s double-armed acceptance of Hindraf is another snippet of hypocrisy. In a recent article, he mentioned how some leaders of DAP were against Hindraf joining Harapan, but since Mahathir accepted Hindraf, things are all good and the sins have been banished. It is mind boggling how Ramasamy says the past is the past when it involves Harapan, but keeps bringing up Samy Vellu’s name as a reason to reject MIC.
Comments pour in against me when I speak about Mahathir’s recent disparaging racial remarks. One-eyed opposition supporters bring up the ‘Chinese tsunami’ and ‘keris’ incident in an instance, but at the very next moment they say we shouldn’t speak about Mahathir’s past.
The late Karpal Singh fought for truth and righteousness. Even after his untimely death, Gobind continued to march forward. However, since Mahathir joined Pakatan, Gobind has been relatively silent.
Is it because he is disgusted with the current politics of PH? The torment the late Tiger of Jelutong underwent is certainly not ‘just politics’ as Mahathir says.
When Mahathir can cheat the nation for decades to hold on to power, is there any guarantee he isn’t doing the same to wield over our future? Will the Kit Siang-Mahathir drama suffer the same fate as DAP-PAS soap opera prior to GE13?
With daily revelations of hypocrisy, Malaysia is not going to change, no matter who governs.
