The let-down that is Ku Li
And honestly, you can’t really blame anyone for believing so especially after the Kelantan prince revisited the ‘Rancangan Buku Hijau’ (RBH) to a question on how to tackle the seemingly ever-increasing cost of living.
To the unfamiliar, RBH is a policy that was implemented by former prime minister Tun Abdul Razak some time in the 70s in a bid to overcome the then 17 per cent inflation rate by urging Malaysians to grow their own vegetables.
Wait. What!?
“It worked wonders (back then) but we (the previous Barisan Nasional-government) did not do it prior to the recent general election,” said Tengku Razaleigh to Astro Awani’s Kamarul Bahrin Haron.
If one considered that as a gaffe, then know that it was not the only blunder that Ku Li might have committed throughout the 27-minute interview on Tuesday.
He offered no concrete plan on how to resuscitate the party aside from echoing the popular contention on the need for Umno to replace its old faces with newer ones.
How fresh and new can the 81-year-old parliamentarian who survived through 12 general elections since 1969 appear to party members seeking to reform Umno is anybody’s guess.
And his rambling over how Umno will always be synonymous with the Malays to a question on what will happen if the party fails to be a strong opposition seemed to suggest that he hasn’t the faintest idea (of) the gravity of Umno’s trust deficit among the Malays.
Newsflash – if Umno is indeed imprinted in the hearts of the Malays then the party would not have been severely bested in the May 9 polls.
