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Thursday, August 7, 2014

TIME TO PART WAYS: PKR must sack Khalid, Pakatan must drop PAS or lose credibility with voters

TIME TO PART WAYS: PKR must sack Khalid, Pakatan must drop PAS or lose credibility with voters
PKR is finally playing hardball with its very own Benedict Arnold, Khalid Ibrahim. For far too long his plump, puffing figure in ridiculous wig has uselessly occupied the Chief Minister’s chair, while delivering nothing to the hapless rakyat who so hopefully voted Pakatan in.
In hindsight, it was a bad idea to install in Selangor a figure like Khalid Ibrahim who profited obscenely from Umno policies that benefited only the elite few.
It is clear that Khalid Ibrahim has taken advantage of Anwar Ibrahim’s too-generous nature for his own gain. It is truly a case of, to cite the Malay proverb, ‘melepaskan anjing tersepit’. Khalid now turns around and bites those who had helped him.
Ingrate
There was never a time when Khalid did anything particularly competent. He had, in Guthrie, clung on like a leech to his position despite being asked to go, and he is repeating this shameless behavior now. The reason for his dismissal in Guthrie was no different, one imagines, than it is now. He is grossly incompetent.
Rubbish lies uncollected in Selangor, rivers clogged, reservoirs empty, roads in disrepair. Selangor, led by this visionless and mediocre fellow, is become a bleak and joyless land. With his background in running plantations, Khalid is a ludicrous misfit in today’s world. Where are the investments in technology and productivity? What is Khalid doing to give Selangor a place as a software and technology powerhouse in a world where Apple has a higher market-cap that Exxon or GM?
Khalid, bereft of creativity or vision, trumpets instead about saving money, which should have rightly been spent on public works. He has been reduced to fiddling with numbers to cover up the fact that Selangor is at a standstill, its economy stagnant.
Umno's man lock, stock and barrel?
The entire water shortage problem came about because Khalid twiddled his fingers instead of aggressively addressing the problem. In the end he handed out big contracts to known Umno cronies for the Langat 2 project. That project consists of building a couple of big tanks and hoping for rain! Where Selangor should be looking at smart, second-generation infrastructures to meet the current and future water needs of Selangorians, they instead dump billions of ringgit into a lifeless pile of cement.
This handing out of large contracts to known associates of Pakatan’s political foes i.e BN and Umno, was particularly evident after Khalid was mysteriously forgiven a RM66 million loan by Bank Islam.
It is clear that Khalid Ibrahim is Umno’s man, lock, stock and barrel. His reason for clinging on so desperately to power even now, is no doubt on Umno’s instructions, with the intention to cause as much trouble as possible to Pakatan.
PKR the glue that binds Pakatan
It is unfortunate that several PAS leaders have supported Khalid Ibrahim. In the first instance, they should not be meddling in PKR’s internal affairs. PKR is the glue that holds Pakatan together, which BN and Umno well knows. Those who try to weaken PKR are dancing to Umno’s tune, whether consciously until or not.
It is clear now, even to the casual observer, that Khalid Ibrahim has been exploiting the natural fissures of coalition politics to cling on to power by playing one party against the other. PKR should have put their foot down a lot sooner. Appeasement is a poor substitute for management.
Pakatan must get rid of Khalid Ibrahim now. He not only does not belong in the MB’s seat, he does not belong in PKR. Nor should slimy characters like him have any place in Pakatan Rakyat.
Indeed Pakatan as an entity may require a rethink if what Rafizi Ramli exposed of PAS’s intention to make Tengku Razaleigh PM, is indeed true. And PAS misogyny is exposed in their questioning of PKR’s nomination of DS Wan Azizah for MB.
Best to ditch PAS now instead of having them as an uncomfortable partner with questionable links to Umno. It may need new strategies and take longer to get to Putrajaya without PAS, but Pakatan will not have a millstone around its neck when it gets there. - Malaysia Chronicle

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