Chan Swee,s Comment On Kajang By-Election.

Without doubt at the present scenario BN / UMNO is totally  playing the Ketuanan Melayu  strategy against the Pakatan Rakyat multi-racial approach.They are being cornered at their own game by their arrogance after the GE 2004. Wholesale corruption,abuse of power ,utter disregard for the law , greed and total  insensitive of the non-Malay sentiments is the result.At the present moment Pakatan Rakyat is doing the right thing emphasizing on the price increases which affect everyone.The Pakatan Rakyat leadership is very united in their approach with a little disagreements at the grassroots level. Everyone is able to read the game with the help of the Internet.We can weigh all the information and opinions from all sides and be able to judge them.To me ,MCA is between the devil and the deep blue sea,to go for it or not  makes no difference, the result will be the same.To go for it , it shows  MCA is still a force to be reckoned with.Not going for it shows the death of MCA.

James Lim's Comment on Kajang By-Election

Dr. Chan had specifically stated the possible reasons why Mr. Lee Chin cheh has galantly vacated his seat in Kajang for Datuk Seri Anwar. Whatever the reasons, it was done in good faith and good intent.

Though the Kajang constituency was initially designated for MCA, and you can now realize that most component parties not to mention UMNO have conveniently and generously proposed that the candidate should come from MCA without any whims and avarice.

As Dr. Chan blatantly puts it in the most appropriate manner-  ' Kamikaze to whoever nominated '

Definitely, MCA should be now wise and prudent enough to be strategic not to accept the honour of choice especially when MCA is at its lowest ebb and at its weakest point. It will be another Doomsday .

MCA should now be concentrating with focus on how to restructure and reorganize its precarious position rather than being manipulated again.

Besides ' Kajang Constituency ' will be the battle ground for the titans and it will take another Umnoputra to see it through and not MCA.

From James

Dr.Chan's Comment On Kajang By-Election

Kajang By- election scheduled to be held on 23^rd.Mar 2014

A By-election for the Selangor state Kajang constituency shall be held on 23^rd.Mar 2014 as directed by the Election Commission.

Mr. Lee Chin Cheh from the PKR, the elected assembly representative, on 27^th. Jan 2014 abruptly resigned without giving any reason. According to the law, his vacant seat would be filled by another person by way of a By-election within 60 days from the day the speaker of the assembly made the announcement of the resignation. Thus, this By-election was ordered.

Kajang constituency has a total of 39,278 voters. This includes the newly registered voters. Nomination day was fixed to be on 11^th. Mar. 2014. Early voting was fixed to be on 19^th.Mar.2014 for the 1,197 early voters. 

Upon the announcement of the resignation of Mr. Lee Chin Cheh by the Speaker of the state Assembly,   Datuk Seri Anwar was the first person to declare himself as a candidate to the By-election. Since then he had invited numerous comments and speculations from various quarters, of his move. The opposite camp, of cause, did not fail to discredit him in any way possible by painting a black picture of him. His move could be said has created a political storm of the day.

By this By-election he has also created an opportunity for himself to disseminate to the public effectively the news of mismanagement of the UMNO government. The inability of the government to control the raising prices of basic daily food- staffs, the run- away prices of goods and services, the looming threat of tax increase by way of the impending implementation of the General Service Tax (GST) and a host of other unpopular taxes, soon to be implemented are of everyone concern.

On the other hand the By-election has given Datuk Seri Anwar a chance to make known his ideas as to how to over-come the mismanagement of the UMNO government. How the public would benefit from his fair policies. He is in fact offering to the people a choice for the alternative.

Normally we would hear reasonable comments or reasonable rebuttals from politicians but it pained me to observe that most of the comments were personal attacks which to me were merely gossips, not worth listening to. A few high powered politicians who dislike Datuk Seri Anwar went as low as casting aspersions or making insinuating remarks on his ability to hold high office. To me this amounted to pure character assassination and this is rather unfair. Why should he suffer such a vicious attack? After all he is trying to serve the country and its people. So far all the reasons put forward against him were pure speculations and unfounded.

The actual reason for the By-election could be many. I would say only Mr. Lee and Datuk Seri Anwar know the truth as to why this By-election was created. Unfortunately, Datuk and Mr. Lee felt it was best to keep the real reason a secret. They have the rights to do so. I see no reason why some leaders of NGOs demanded from him to reveal the true reason for the By-election. Was it they themselves wanted to know or the public wanted to know? The answer is crystal clear if one really understands the present political situation.  

Datuk Seri Anwar, when he was asked, only stated that his act is to fortify the state from the political onslaught of UMNO and to use Selangor as a base to get nearer to Putrajaya.  In my opinion, this is partly true. My feeling is that PKR at present without doubt is under severe political attack by UMNO. His presence is needed to repel the onslaught.

By-election is one of the effective ways to defense and to repel the enemy. A number of its important grass roots leaders and those now holding legislative positions in the government are showing sign of discontentment and that may lead to disloyalty to the Party. Under such circumstances they may jump ship. There is a danger to the Party. Datuk Seri Anwar needs to address this problem fast otherwise the problem will escalate leading to the disintegration of the Party.PKR needs a strong base where by a strong finance is generated to sustain the functioning of the party just like any of its partners. DAP has the base in Penang. PAS has a base in Kelantan.

He has to start cleaning up the Party in preparation for the coming 14^th.General Election. This could be the beginning. If my assessment is correct I believe you may see more action of him to come.

If MCA is given the mandate to produce a candidate to this By-election, I consider him as a kamikaze. In the last election (2013) the MCA candidate managed to garner 12,747 out of 38965 votes, lost by a vast majority of 6,824 votes in the 6 corner fight. With this record the chances of a win is very remote.

One must accept the fact that the Party has just able to stabilize its leadership but yet to improve its organization weakness. The confidence of the public to the Party has not been earned. It is not the time to go for battle. Why can’t the Party leaders be more prudent? Reorganize and rebuilt and do battle later. The result of this by election is forgone conclusion. Let others do the battle. Even UMNO had conceded defeat.