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Thursday, August 14, 2014

PAST DUE DATE & DESTRUCTIVE: Time for PAS grassroots to get rid of Hadi

PAST DUE DATE & DESTRUCTIVE: Time for PAS grassroots to get rid of Hadi
In politics if you stay too long, you’ll go loco. You lose your respect for the grassroots who put you in power. You start to think that you have the monopoly of wisdom and your word must be taken as the ultimate wisdom.
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, spiritual leader Nik Aziz and secretary-general Mustapha Ali have been around for far too long. Their statements to state the party’s position have quite often gone against the wishes of the grassroots.
For instance, while the Selangor crisis was raging on, out of the blue Hadi and Nik Aziz, without knowing the full facts and, perhaps due to courtesy call by Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, came out in support of Khalid.
That threw the whole Pakatan coalition into disarray. Even Hadi’s deputy Mohammad Sabu stated that that was Hadi’s personal view.
Ignorant of the fact that PAS’s progress during the last general elections was due to being part of the coalition which gave them a lot of urban votes.
This was clearly stated by PAS Selangor assemblyman Saari Sunguib, who is now appealing to Hadi not to delay the party’s continued support for the coalition.
Did Hadi and Nik Aziz check with their Adun in Selangor on their stand on Khalid? That’s democracy. They cannot get on making pronouncements supporting Khalid.
Perhaps this is the right time for PAS grassroots to reflect on Hadi’s leadership.
Hadi’s greatest achievement was winning Terengganu which made him the menteri besar. PAS grassroots were thinking that Hadi would keep Terengganu like Nik Aziz keeping Kelantan. But soon after that, PAS lost Terengganu again.
Under Hadi, PAS won Kedah, but lost it again.
So is Hadi going to be the cause for Pakatan to lose Selangor.
If PAS is so dedicated to its struggle to set up an Islamic state, they have no business joining the coalition, which meant that they needed to change some of their policies.
If they were so much against Anwar Ibrahim becoming prime minister, why in the hell did they come up with Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah as their choice? Isn’t Hadi himself highly qualified to become prime minister?
If Hadi and Nik Aziz are against Wan Azizah as menteri besar, they must be quite naïve. Other Islamic countries like Indonesia, Bangladesh and Pakistan have had women as leaders. So what is so special about Malaysia? This is merely a political position, not a religious position.
The question is, is PAS joining the coalition based on an ulterior motive? If that is so, why didn’t PAS insist on their man becoming Selangor MB after securing the most number of seats (15) in Selangor compared to 14 for DAP and Keadlian respectively and 12 for BN?
PAS men and women in the Selangor assembly are all qualified people, and yet PAS would rather wait for this crisis to show their true colours, possibly by joining a new coalition with BN. What says Nik Aziz about this? The logical extension to this is, BN may demand that a similar coalition also take place in Kelantan.
I am a great admirer of the American system where a president is only allowed to serve for two terms. Two terms is long enough for a man or woman to lose sight of everything and be replaced before he does any more damage to the country and the world like George Bush Jr and Tony Blair.
It is now up to PAS grassroots to reflect and decide that Hadi and secretary-general Mustapha Ali should go before they take the party into the abyss. Both leaders being from the same state is never a good idea.
Let us bear in mind that PAS is no sacrosanct. Starting with great leaders like Burhanuddin Helmi and Zulkifli Muhammad, later leaders like Mohamad Asri and Othman have even done the unthinkable. They joined Umno.
After their great success during the last general election, Hadi and some who share his delusion began to think that PAS can now go it alone into the next general election. But like former editor of Harakah Zulkifli Sulong said in his letter to Nik Aziz, such a thought would only drag PAS back to what PAS was 30 years ago. –TMI

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