3 April 2009 (Jumaat)
1.00 – 2.30 ptg – Sembahyang Jumaat (Masjid Kuala Sin)
2.30 – 3.30 ptg – Jamuan Rakyat di Rumah Pak Lah (Depan SK Kuala Sin)
3.30 – 4.00 ptg – Prog Pelancaran Pemasangan Bendera AMK – Kg Sungkap (Senator Zamri)
7.30 – 9.00 mlm - dinner brsama Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, karpal singh di Jade restaurant.
9.30 – 10.30 mlm – Ceramah I – Tmn Perumahan Laguna, Merbok (AMK)
11.00 – 12.00 mlm – Ceramah II - bersama Tuan Guru Nik Aziz, YB Karpal Singh di pekan Bkt Selambau
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4 April 2009 (Sabtu)
10.00 – 12.00 tghri – Dialog dengan NGO / Warga Guru – Kelab Cinta Sayang
12.30 – 2.30 ptg – Bersama NGO bukan Melayu di Dewan Hock Seng, Sg Lalang
5.00 – 6.30 ptg – Hi-Tea Bersama Masyarakat Siam – Tanah Licin, JDM Titi Panjang (Sang Wan 019-4663126)
6.30 – 7.00 ptg – Indian Community Culture Show – Jln Boria, Tmn Ria Jaya
7.30 – 8.30 mlm – Tazkirah Maghrib – Masjid Kg Raja, Batu 2 (Hj Suharni 013- 4303384)
9.30 – 10.30 mlm – Ceramah 1 – Taman Wira, Tasik Apong
11.00 – 12.00 mlm – Ceramah II – Dewan Hock Seng – Sg. Lalang (Hj Latif 019-4765014)
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6 April 2009 (Isnin)
10.00 – 12.00 tghari – Prog Bersama MB Kedah – (Serah Extension Tanah Tol) – Pekan Bukit Selambau
12.30 – 2.30 ptg – Majlis Penerangan Dasar2 Kerajaan Negeri kepada kakitangan kerajaan/Pemimpin Masyarakat bersama EXCO Kerajaan Negeri Kedah di Kelab Cinta Sayang, Sg Petani. (YB Pahrolrazi/Amiruddin Hamzah & YB Saifuddin)
5.00 – 7.00 Ptg – Hi-Tea (Prog Wanita) – Batu Belacan (Razaini 013-8904422)
6.30 ptg – Bertemu Konvoi Amal Anak Muda Alternative Riding Club di Pekan Bukit Selambau bersama calon.
10.00 – 12.00 mlm – Ceramah Grand Finale – Pentas AMK -
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PEJABAT DATUK SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM
Timbalan setiausaha agung MCA menggesa Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak mewujudkan jawatan timbalan perdana menteri dan timbalan pengerusi BN untuk diisi presidennya bagi mencermin “perkongsian kuasa sebenar”.
“Rakyat Malaysia pelbagai kaum telah lama menerima dan memberi sokongan penuh kepada ideologi pentadbrain berasaskan kepada perkongsian kuasa di negara ini.
“Bagaimanapun, selepas 52 tahun merdeka, kita terus merasakan bahawa perkongsian kuasa itu hanya satu slogan dan tidak mencermin situasi sebenar, yang kita amat harapkan menjadi kenyataan pada suatu hari nanti.
“Oleh itu, rakyat Malaysia kini kecewa dan tidak puas hati dengan situasi sebenar kita sekarang kerana ia hanyalah satu cakap kosong,” kata Datuk Loke Yuen Yow.
By Din Merican
“Thank You, Pak Lah” is the title of The NST Supplement (April 2, 2009) to mark the end of another era in the history of our country. Badawi leaves office on April 3 and hands over the premiership to Najib Tun Razak. The government controlled daily published articles by individuals who are favorably disposed towards the former premier.
These articles are in general complimentary, bordering on sentimentality, romanticism, and sycophancy. Talk about foreign policy, for example, when we know he has no policy at all. Just ask those who have served him in Wisma Putra when he was Foreign Minister, and they will tell you that he spent most of his time holding court for his political supporters, not on building our relations with the rest of the world.
I have been very critical of the man, his politics and so-called policies, not so much because I am a member and a keen supporter of Anwar Ibrahim’s Parti KeADILan Rakyat and Pakatan Rakyat that he leads. My disenchantment with Prime Minister Badawi is because he lost a unique opportunity to make a difference to our country. His is a story of countless missed opportunities.
From The Economist
ONE could certainly say that Najib Razak was born to be Malaysian prime minister. He is the son of Abdul Razak, the second man to hold that job following independence from Britain, and the nephew of his successor, Hussein Onn. Elected to parliament aged 23, on his father’s death, he rose to become deputy to the present prime minister, Abdullah Badawi. However, Mr Najib, expected within months to become the country’s sixth post-independence leader, will enter under a cloud of allegations, including ones linking him to a murder case, all of which he categorically denies. But some Malaysians will be wondering if he is a fit person to lead them.
Facing a revitalised opposition, in an election earlier this year the governing coalition, led by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), lost the two-thirds majority it needs to change the constitution. Since then, the knives have been out for Mr Badawi. Despite his efforts to cling on he is being forced to quit next March. The contest to succeed him as party president, and thus prime minister, at first promised to be lively. But party officials, fearful of the challenge from the opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim (a former UMNO deputy leader), chose to hang together rather than hang separately. By November 2nd Mr Najib had won enough nominations to block his only rival, Razaleigh Hamzah, a former finance minister, from getting on the ballot-paper.
Presiden PKR Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail berasa amat sedih dengan pelantikan Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Razak sebagai perdana menteri Malaysia keenam hari ini.
Tambahnya, pengambilalihan kuasa kepada Najib dipersoalkan rakyat dengan alasan presiden baru Umno itu diselubungi pelbagai isu kontroversi, antaranya, dikaitkan dengan Altantuya Shaariibuu seperti dakwaan seorang penyiasat persendian yang kemudiannya hilang.
“Adakah ini pemimpin yang hendak memimpin negara ini? Apakah beliau (Najib) mempunyai kaitan dengan P Balasubramaniam.
“Siapa yang bersalah di atas kehilangan satu nyawa,” katanya, walaupun tidak menyebut identiti tersebut.
From Voice Of America
By Luke Hunt
In Malaysia, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has resigned, and Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak will replace him. During Mr. Abdullah’s administration, the ruling UMNO party saw its worst electoral performance in more than 40 years, and he agreed to resign in favor of his deputy. However, Mr. Najib brings with him his own political baggage.
Prime Minister of Malaysia Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, right, and Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak during United Malays National Organization party’s flag hosting ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, 26 Mar 2009
Prime Minister of Malaysia Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, right, and Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak during United Malays National Organization party’s flag hosting ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, 26 Mar 2009
Najib Razak, who takes office Friday, faces tough challenges as his UMNO party struggles to win over moderate Malays, the Chinese and Indian communities and young voters. UMNO, which has dominated Malaysian politics for more than 40 years, last year saw its worst election result ever.
From The Telegraph
By Thomas Bell, South East Asia Correspondent
Najib Razak, 55, inherits the premiership at one of the most difficult times in the government’s unbroken 52-year rule. The opposition made record gains in elections a year ago, raising the possibility that Mr Najib’s United Malay’s National Organisation (Umno) could lose power for the first time.
Few in the country believe he will enjoy more than a brief honeymoon period with the former “tiger” economy entering recession after exports tumbled by 27 per cent in January, while public debt is soaring.
Opinion polls show Mr Najib is even more unpopular than the man he is replacing, Abdullah Badawi, who was hastened into retirement after last year’s electoral failure.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — The outlawed Hindraf movement has reaffirmed its support for Pakatan Rakyat in the Bukit Selambau by-election despite none if its leaders being chosen as the candidate.
But Hindraf chairman P. Waytha Moorthy warned the opposition pact to maximise the current political climate for success.
“If we fail to work and act together to get rid of Barisan Nasional in the next GE (2012) then the hope of opposition ever taking over the reins of the country will die permanently and I honestly envisage the crack and crumble of Pakatan from then on,” said Waytha Moorthy, who is in self-exile in London.
Saying the Hindraf grassroots were disappointed with the choice of candidate, he however admitted it was PKR chief Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s discretion to name the candidate but hoped for consultations in the future to avoid confusion.
“Hindraf acknowledges that our grassroots supporters are disappointed that the Bukit Selambau seat was not offered to any of the five shortlisted candidates and urge our supporters to remain focused and calm,” he said in a statement today.
Malaysia’s main ruling party, Umno, is in crisis after 52 years at the heart of government. The BBC correspondent in Kuala Lumpur, Robin Brant, asks whether the newly-elected leader Najib Razak can reverse its fortunes.
Najib Razak has taken over as leader of a huge political movement which is accused of being corrupt, complacent, detached and facing a life or death battle.
That is not the verdict of a staunch opposition critic but the man Mr Najib succeeds – outgoing prime minister Abdullah Badawi.
With its three million-strong membership and more than five decades in power, Umno – the main party in the National Front coalition – is an unparalleled force in this country.
But both the former leader and the man replacing him think that the party is facing “death” if it does not change.
