Ketirisan undi Cina: MCA salahkan PERKASA?
Pelbagai analisa timbul mengenai ketirisan undi etnik Cina dalam PRK P094 Hulu Selangor baru baru. Calon BN P Kamalanathan dikatakan gagal lebih 2,000 majoriti undi etnik Cina dalam kawasan majoriti Cina. Hari ini, Presiden MCA Dato’ Seri Chua Soi Lek menyaalahkan NGO Melayu PERKASA kerana kegagalan BN meraih undi etnik Cina itu.
Laporan Malaysian Inisder:
MCA blames Perkasa for loss of Chinese support
By Clara Chooi
KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 — The MCA has blamed “organisations like Perkasa” for Barisan Nasional’s failure in recapturing Chinese support, especially in the recent Hulu Selangor by-election.
In a press statement today, party president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek (picture) condemned Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali’s statement urging the government not to fulfil its pledges of development to the Chinese community.
“I wish to condemn in the strongest terms the statement by the Perkasa chief for asking the government to delay the development allocations to the Chinese community.
“I wish to stress that government money belongs to the people. It should be used for the local community for local development,” Dr Chua said.
In Sunday’s polls, BN’s P. Kamalanathan secured a 1,725-vote majority win over PKR’s Datuk Zaid Ibrahim but failed to recapture votes from the Chinese community.
The BN only secured fewer than 30 per cent of the Chinese votes, down from the 35 per cent it had garnered during Election 2008.
Ibrahim, the Pasir Mas MP, had capitalised on this and had called the Chinese community “ungrateful.”
He urged the BN government not to fulfil its promises to them.
Ibrahim had also called on the government to ignore demands made by the MCA and Gerakan as punishment for their failure to attract Chinese voters.
Dr Chua said that the Chinese voters of Hulu Selangor should not be punished for their failure to choose the BN in the election.
The MCA president noted that he had already discussed the matter with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the latter had given an assurance that he would not take heed of Ibrahim’s demands.
“Najib has given his assurance that the BN will fulfil its pledges of development to the voters of Hulu Selangor. The BN does not renege on its promises,” he claimed.
Dr Chua lambasted Ibrahim for his statement and said that it was organisations like Perkasa that made it difficult for the MCA to get Chinese support for the BN.
“Malaysia will not be able to progress if we continue to have people like Ibrahim Ali who professes to champion along racial lines with disregard to the sensitivity of other communities in the country,” he said.
He added that all politicians should be reminded not to utter remarks that touch on the fabric of culture, religion and race for such actions were contrary to the prime minister’s 1 Malaysia platform.
This is the second time the MCA has been at loggerheads with the Malay rights group, which has the backing of many Umno members and some of its leaders.
When contacted by The Malaysian Insider, Dr Chua said: “Who is Perkasa anyway? They are just an NGO.”
He also blamed the negative campaigning employed by some of the more right-wing members of Umno, many of them Perkasa supporters, for the loss of Chinese support for BN.
Dr Chua claimed that Zaid had only gained further popularity with the Chinese voters when BN attempted to use his drinking past and purported gambling habits to discredit him.
“Zaid is known as a liberal Malay leader. He is popular, especially among the younger generation of voters compared to Kamalanathan, who is just a new leader.
“The attempt to blacken his image with the gambling and drinking allegations would not work in the Chinese community because they do not view these things negatively. In fact, they can better identify with him,” he said.
Meanwhile, Gerakan vice-president Datuk Chang Ko Youn said Ibrahim’s statement was “irresponsible” and accused the independent MP of failing to take cognisance of the reason why the Chinese community had abandoned the BN.
“He should stop making extremist statements and stop trying to alienate the MCA and Gerakan in the BN,” he said.
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Adalah amat tidak adil bagi Presiden MCA, mewakil masyarakat etnik Cina dan rakan kongsi BN yang kedua terpenting itu menyalahkan NGO Melayu PERKASA dan Presidenya YB Dato’ Ibrahim Ali kerana kegagalan MCA sendiri meyakinkan etnik Cina sekitar Hulu Selangor untuk kembali menyokong BN.
Ini adalah kerana PERKASA sebagai NGO Melayu hanya menyuarakan apa yang hak bagi Bangsa Melayu, tanpa menafikan hak etnik lain dan sebagaimana yang diperuntukan oleh Perlembagaan Persekutuan. PERKASA mewarisi aspirasi Bangsa Melayu sebagai 60% warga Malaysia hanya ingin mempertahankan apa yang sebenarnya wajar tidak dinafikan kepentingan orang Melayu itu. Sekiranya mempertahankan apa yang yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan Malaysia itu disifatkan sebagai ‘Perkauman’ (Racism), maka PERKASA tidak perlu apologetik dalam kedudukan mereka yang kini makin popular dikalangan orang Melayu.
Malah sebagai NGO, PERKASA tidaklah ada beza dengan NGO Cina lain seperti Dong Ziong. Dong Ziong memperjuangkan sekolah Cina, yang jelas bertentangan dengan peruntukan Perlembagaan Malaysia (Akta Pendidikan 1996 yang mensyaratkan bahasa penghantar ialah Bahasa Melayu). Sekiranya PERKASA disifatkan sebagai rasis, mengapa MCA tidak membuat kenyataan yang sama pada NGO Cina yang bersifat chauvinis seperti Dong Ziong?
Sejarah merakamkan bahasa NGO Cina yang sebenarnya merupakan golongan yang chauvinis dan rasis. Gabungan NGO Cina Suqiu pada Ogos 2000 mengeluarkan ’17 tuntutan’, yang sebenarnya bertentangan dengan peruntukan Perlembagaan Malaysia.
Mengapa MCA tidak menyelar Suqiu sebagai rasis pada masa itu?
MCA sepatutnya mengkaji kelemahan mereka meyakinkan masyarakat etnik Cina, sebagai kedudukan mereka dalam BN dan Kerajaan. Kepimpinan Melayu selama ini memperuntukan 4 jawatan Kabinet bagi MCA dan 1 untuk Gerakan semata mata menjaga hati dan kepentingan masyarakat etnik Cina dalam peringkat penggubal dasar. Namun dalam PRK P094, undi masyarakat etnik Cina terhadap BN menurun dari 35% pada PRU 12 dua tahun lepas kepada 30%.
Dato’ Seri Chua wajar menyalahkan kelemahan MCA sendiri kerana kegagalan menyakin dan lantas memperlihatkan ketirisan masyarakat etnik Cina menyokong BN. Masalah perebutan kuasa yang hampir menjadi ‘perang saudara’ dalam MCA kerana kegagalan mencari penyelesaian dipercayai membuat sebilangan besar menjadi bosan dengan parti yang berusia lebih 60 tahun itu. Namun hujah paling penting sekali yang Chua tidak langsung ketengahkan sebelum melontarkan sebarang tuduhan bertujuan menyalahkan (blame) ialah PERKASA ujud pada Mei 2009, 14 bulan selepas MCA mengalami ketirisan undi amat meruncing dari masyarakat etnik Cina sendiri pada PRU 12 8 Mac 2008.
Tiba persimpa ngan bahawa Kepimpinan Melayu mengkaji semula semua peruntukan dan ‘beralah’ yang orang Melayu sanggup kompromi bagi kepentingan masyarakat Malaysia sesuai dengan prinsip toleransi, kerjasama dan sepakatana, demi keharmonian intra etnik. Dengan kelantangan ini, MCA juga wajar di’disiplin’kan, demi menjaga hati orang Melayu, majoriti warga Malaysia.
*Perkembangan dikemas kini 1100pm
Kenyataan sms Presiden PERKASA YB Dato’ Ibrahim Ali keatas kenyataan Chua ini:
MCA Presiden Chua Soi Lek should thanks PERKASA coz at least he can blame PERKASA for the failure of MCA to get Chinese to vote BN. PERKASA will not blame MCA coz if adultery and failure to serve Chinese’s at grassroot. Internal problems of MCA also not the cause all is PERKASA. BIG JOKE OF THE YEAR. MCA having meeting with all kinds of Malay NGOs and not making lots of demand. That is not wrong. In the next 13th General Elections, Malay will not vote MCA candidate and the blame will the Chinese NGO like Dong Ziong. Dong and others I make a statement, Govt should hold on the promise make Hulu Selangor coz they are not grateful. Malays were still upset on many things but still support BN. I dont have the power to withdraw the promise. It is upto PM Dato Seri Najib. I just make statement so that they should realize and be thankful. MCA should get a ‘Big Mirror’ stand in front and dont blame others.
Tok Him, PERKASA
http://bigdogdotcom.wordpress.com/
Laporan Malaysian Inisder:
MCA blames Perkasa for loss of Chinese support
By Clara Chooi
KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 — The MCA has blamed “organisations like Perkasa” for Barisan Nasional’s failure in recapturing Chinese support, especially in the recent Hulu Selangor by-election.
In a press statement today, party president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek (picture) condemned Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali’s statement urging the government not to fulfil its pledges of development to the Chinese community.
“I wish to condemn in the strongest terms the statement by the Perkasa chief for asking the government to delay the development allocations to the Chinese community.
“I wish to stress that government money belongs to the people. It should be used for the local community for local development,” Dr Chua said.
In Sunday’s polls, BN’s P. Kamalanathan secured a 1,725-vote majority win over PKR’s Datuk Zaid Ibrahim but failed to recapture votes from the Chinese community.
The BN only secured fewer than 30 per cent of the Chinese votes, down from the 35 per cent it had garnered during Election 2008.
Ibrahim, the Pasir Mas MP, had capitalised on this and had called the Chinese community “ungrateful.”
He urged the BN government not to fulfil its promises to them.
Ibrahim had also called on the government to ignore demands made by the MCA and Gerakan as punishment for their failure to attract Chinese voters.
Dr Chua said that the Chinese voters of Hulu Selangor should not be punished for their failure to choose the BN in the election.
The MCA president noted that he had already discussed the matter with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the latter had given an assurance that he would not take heed of Ibrahim’s demands.
“Najib has given his assurance that the BN will fulfil its pledges of development to the voters of Hulu Selangor. The BN does not renege on its promises,” he claimed.
Dr Chua lambasted Ibrahim for his statement and said that it was organisations like Perkasa that made it difficult for the MCA to get Chinese support for the BN.
“Malaysia will not be able to progress if we continue to have people like Ibrahim Ali who professes to champion along racial lines with disregard to the sensitivity of other communities in the country,” he said.
He added that all politicians should be reminded not to utter remarks that touch on the fabric of culture, religion and race for such actions were contrary to the prime minister’s 1 Malaysia platform.
This is the second time the MCA has been at loggerheads with the Malay rights group, which has the backing of many Umno members and some of its leaders.
When contacted by The Malaysian Insider, Dr Chua said: “Who is Perkasa anyway? They are just an NGO.”
He also blamed the negative campaigning employed by some of the more right-wing members of Umno, many of them Perkasa supporters, for the loss of Chinese support for BN.
Dr Chua claimed that Zaid had only gained further popularity with the Chinese voters when BN attempted to use his drinking past and purported gambling habits to discredit him.
“Zaid is known as a liberal Malay leader. He is popular, especially among the younger generation of voters compared to Kamalanathan, who is just a new leader.
“The attempt to blacken his image with the gambling and drinking allegations would not work in the Chinese community because they do not view these things negatively. In fact, they can better identify with him,” he said.
Meanwhile, Gerakan vice-president Datuk Chang Ko Youn said Ibrahim’s statement was “irresponsible” and accused the independent MP of failing to take cognisance of the reason why the Chinese community had abandoned the BN.
“He should stop making extremist statements and stop trying to alienate the MCA and Gerakan in the BN,” he said.
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Adalah amat tidak adil bagi Presiden MCA, mewakil masyarakat etnik Cina dan rakan kongsi BN yang kedua terpenting itu menyalahkan NGO Melayu PERKASA dan Presidenya YB Dato’ Ibrahim Ali kerana kegagalan MCA sendiri meyakinkan etnik Cina sekitar Hulu Selangor untuk kembali menyokong BN.
Ini adalah kerana PERKASA sebagai NGO Melayu hanya menyuarakan apa yang hak bagi Bangsa Melayu, tanpa menafikan hak etnik lain dan sebagaimana yang diperuntukan oleh Perlembagaan Persekutuan. PERKASA mewarisi aspirasi Bangsa Melayu sebagai 60% warga Malaysia hanya ingin mempertahankan apa yang sebenarnya wajar tidak dinafikan kepentingan orang Melayu itu. Sekiranya mempertahankan apa yang yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan Malaysia itu disifatkan sebagai ‘Perkauman’ (Racism), maka PERKASA tidak perlu apologetik dalam kedudukan mereka yang kini makin popular dikalangan orang Melayu.
Malah sebagai NGO, PERKASA tidaklah ada beza dengan NGO Cina lain seperti Dong Ziong. Dong Ziong memperjuangkan sekolah Cina, yang jelas bertentangan dengan peruntukan Perlembagaan Malaysia (Akta Pendidikan 1996 yang mensyaratkan bahasa penghantar ialah Bahasa Melayu). Sekiranya PERKASA disifatkan sebagai rasis, mengapa MCA tidak membuat kenyataan yang sama pada NGO Cina yang bersifat chauvinis seperti Dong Ziong?
Sejarah merakamkan bahasa NGO Cina yang sebenarnya merupakan golongan yang chauvinis dan rasis. Gabungan NGO Cina Suqiu pada Ogos 2000 mengeluarkan ’17 tuntutan’, yang sebenarnya bertentangan dengan peruntukan Perlembagaan Malaysia.
Mengapa MCA tidak menyelar Suqiu sebagai rasis pada masa itu?
MCA sepatutnya mengkaji kelemahan mereka meyakinkan masyarakat etnik Cina, sebagai kedudukan mereka dalam BN dan Kerajaan. Kepimpinan Melayu selama ini memperuntukan 4 jawatan Kabinet bagi MCA dan 1 untuk Gerakan semata mata menjaga hati dan kepentingan masyarakat etnik Cina dalam peringkat penggubal dasar. Namun dalam PRK P094, undi masyarakat etnik Cina terhadap BN menurun dari 35% pada PRU 12 dua tahun lepas kepada 30%.
Dato’ Seri Chua wajar menyalahkan kelemahan MCA sendiri kerana kegagalan menyakin dan lantas memperlihatkan ketirisan masyarakat etnik Cina menyokong BN. Masalah perebutan kuasa yang hampir menjadi ‘perang saudara’ dalam MCA kerana kegagalan mencari penyelesaian dipercayai membuat sebilangan besar menjadi bosan dengan parti yang berusia lebih 60 tahun itu. Namun hujah paling penting sekali yang Chua tidak langsung ketengahkan sebelum melontarkan sebarang tuduhan bertujuan menyalahkan (blame) ialah PERKASA ujud pada Mei 2009, 14 bulan selepas MCA mengalami ketirisan undi amat meruncing dari masyarakat etnik Cina sendiri pada PRU 12 8 Mac 2008.
Tiba persimpa ngan bahawa Kepimpinan Melayu mengkaji semula semua peruntukan dan ‘beralah’ yang orang Melayu sanggup kompromi bagi kepentingan masyarakat Malaysia sesuai dengan prinsip toleransi, kerjasama dan sepakatana, demi keharmonian intra etnik. Dengan kelantangan ini, MCA juga wajar di’disiplin’kan, demi menjaga hati orang Melayu, majoriti warga Malaysia.
*Perkembangan dikemas kini 1100pm
Kenyataan sms Presiden PERKASA YB Dato’ Ibrahim Ali keatas kenyataan Chua ini:
MCA Presiden Chua Soi Lek should thanks PERKASA coz at least he can blame PERKASA for the failure of MCA to get Chinese to vote BN. PERKASA will not blame MCA coz if adultery and failure to serve Chinese’s at grassroot. Internal problems of MCA also not the cause all is PERKASA. BIG JOKE OF THE YEAR. MCA having meeting with all kinds of Malay NGOs and not making lots of demand. That is not wrong. In the next 13th General Elections, Malay will not vote MCA candidate and the blame will the Chinese NGO like Dong Ziong. Dong and others I make a statement, Govt should hold on the promise make Hulu Selangor coz they are not grateful. Malays were still upset on many things but still support BN. I dont have the power to withdraw the promise. It is upto PM Dato Seri Najib. I just make statement so that they should realize and be thankful. MCA should get a ‘Big Mirror’ stand in front and dont blame others.
Tok Him, PERKASA
http://bigdogdotcom.wordpress.com/
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