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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

If Najib’s BR1M is vote-buying, what was Mahathir’s NEP?

Salleh Said Keruak says Mahathir Mohamad extended the NEP for a further 25 years because he feared Umno would lose power without it.
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PETALING JAYA: While Dr Mahathir Mohamad has relentlessly criticised Prime Minister Najib Razak for buying the people’s good favour with the cash handouts of BR1M, Salleh Said Keruak says the former prime minister did the same during his tenure through the use of the NEP that favoured the Malays.
“If the NEP had ended in 1990 as planned then there would have been a strong possibility that Umno would have lost power and the opposition, which included Semangat 46 at that time, may have taken over,” he explained in his blog, adding that Mahathir refused to end the NEP and instead extended it for another 25 years.
“While some call it an affirmative action plan others call it vote buying,” the Sabah State Speaker said.
He also said Mahathir’s continued attacks on Najib’s leadership and policies was having a negative effect on Umno although his intention of the PM’s ouster was supposedly to save the Malay party.
“I worry that Dr Mahathir in his obsession to bring down the Prime Minister no longer cares whether in the same process he brings down Umno,” Salleh said, explaining that many of Mahathir’s comments recently have not been “complementary” to Umno.
“Dr Mahathir actually paints a very negative picture of Umno although he makes it appear like he is attacking the Prime Minister and not Umno.”
Salleh also commented that Mahathir sounded like he was on the defensive and trying to justify his harsh criticisms of Najib by comparing the PM with those of other countries who have stepped down when faced with mounting controversy.
In yesterday’s blog entry, Mahathir had said: “All over the world elected Presidents and Prime Ministers have been asked or forced to step down and they all did. In fact in some countries, if something untoward happens, Ministers, Prime Ministers step down,” to which Salleh countered with, “That is like saying since some countries use the military to oust a civil government then what is wrong if we also do the same in Malaysia.”
He once again reminded Mahathir that 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) was being investigated for corruption just as he wanted yet the former PM continued his attacks on Najib for some reason.
“I have asked this question before: does Dr Mahathir want to know what happened to 1MDB or does he want the Prime Minister ousted never mind whether there is or is not any wrongdoing in 1MDB?

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