{"id":5048,"date":"2013-05-31T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T05:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2013-05-31T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T05:19:18","slug":"blame-najib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/blame-najib\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame Najib"},"content":{"rendered":"

by M Manogaran<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the March 2008 elections, BN lost its two-thirds majority and Umno blamed then-premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for it.<\/p>\n

Actually the reason BN lost its two-thirds majority and for the first time opposition parties got 82 seats in Parliament, was due to the beginning of a trend towards change. People saw change was possible.<\/p>\n

The Hindraf rally on Nov 25, 2007 made people realise that they can stand up to bullying and tyranny.<\/p>\n

From then onwards there was no turning back and the mood for change is ever rising.<\/p>\n

GE13 was a stock-take for BN, with the result being a worse showing than in GE12 in 2008.<\/p>\n

Not only BN did not regain a two-thirds majority in Parliament, they lost Selangor so badly that Pakatan got a two-thirds majority, not to mention Pakatan’s sterling performance in Penang.<\/p>\n

In GE13, Pakatan got 89 seats, nearly missing on a dozen other Parliamentary seats and Pakatan got the popular votes exceeding 51 percent.<\/p>\n

In company law parlance, Pakatan holds the controlling stake and BN the minority interest, Thus Pakatan should form the board of directors namely the cabinet in this case.<\/p>\n

Who should take the blame for BN’s defeat?<\/p>\n

Obviously it is Najib who headed BN in GE13 who should take the blame.<\/p>\n

When Badawi fared badly in GE12, Umno members especially former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad, current Premier Najib Razak and Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin pushed for the ouster of Badawi.<\/p>\n

Now the same thing has come around.<\/p>\n

And because Mukhriz Mahathir is not in line to take up the deputy prime minister’s post, Mahathir prefers to back Najib for the time being.<\/p>\n

Najib must pay the same price Pak Lah paid and Najib must suffer the same fate as what he did to Pak Lah. This has now came to haunt him.<\/p>\n

The time pressure is piling up on Najib and it is better for Najib to announce a dateline for him to step down graciously.<\/p>\n

And with no capable leader to take over, Umno will further fester.<\/p>\n

* M. Manogaran, DAP’s former MP for Teluk Intan, lost the Cameron Highlands Parliamentary seat in the 2013 elections to MIC’s Palanivel by a mere 462 votes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by M Manogaran In the March 2008 elections, BN lost its two-thirds majority and Umno blamed then-premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for it. Actually the reason BN lost its two-thirds majority and for the first time opposition parties got 82 seats in Parliament, was due to the beginning of a trend towards change. People saw change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}