Thursday, June 19, 2008

Government Must Be Sensitive To Demands By Sabah And Sarawak Components

KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 (Bernama) -- Gua Musang Member of Parliament Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said the government must be sensitive to the demands made by the Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties from Sabah and Sarawak to resolve whatever misunderstandings there may be.
He said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Adullah Ahmad Badawi and the Umno leadership must be diplomatic and hold discussions with the leaders from Sabah and Sarawak.
Speaking to reporters after meeting with Umno leaders from the Federal Territory here Wednesday night, Tengku Razaleigh said without the component parties from the two states, the present government would not have obtained the mandate to govern the country as Umno's strength now was due to the success of the component parties from Sabah and Sarawak in the March 8 general election.
He said this when asked to comment on the announcement by Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Datuk Yong Teck Lee that his party had lost confidence in the leadersip of the Prime Minister.
"From my understanding, the best way out now is for the Prime Minister to step down so that a more suitable candidate can take over and regain the people's confidence in Umno and the BN," he said.
He also alleged that there were Umno divisions in the peninsula that were dissatisfied with the Prime Minister's leadership.
"At a closed-door Umno meeting in Glenmarie, Shah Alam, recently there was also no unanimous decision reached whether to retain Abdullah in his current position," he said.
When asked whether he would withdraw from standing for the Umno presidency at the party's election in December if there were another candidate offering himself, he said: "I continue with my stance and I am not retreating. What I have started, I will finish it."
Meanwhile, in a separate statement faxed here, Tengku Razaleigh said he wanted the best for Umno and had put himself on the line to reform Umno.
"I want what is best for Umno and I have put myself on the line to reform Umno, if our leaders refuse to face reality, I fear the worst for the party and this government," he said.

tunku : yes the government should indeed be sensitive to the demands of sabah and sarawak as long as they are not over the limit.not only sabah and sarawak but all the states. there should be equality for all the states.as for pak lah, the people are not happy with him, he should resign asap.there will be more disaster for the country and bn if he stays longer.

3 comments:

Tok Kemuning said...

Politics 101. The Prime Minister is facing mountains of pressure from the grassroots to vacate the Premier post BUT he increased the petrol & diesel prices by 40% and 60% respectively. Despite the unstabil scenerios what in our Premier mind when decided to do that. Expecting his approval rating to improve significantly or for sure his approval rating would plunging from bad to worst.

How dare our Premier doing the most silly thing that none of his ministers would do by increasing the fuel price during current scenerio. His ministers all are watching him doing this silly thing. Dipping himself into more trouble water. They all wanna chop his political future with no doubt. I wonder whether the Premier realized that his own cabinet ministers directly doing things just to kick him out from his Premiership. Who with the right mind would do this kind of action in current political scenerio but the Premier Abdullah did.

He is the only one that dare to pull the plug (increase the fuel price at his political weak point) and all his cabinet ministers and component parties are laughing at him now. So who is really smarter now. In reality actually i just wonder who is really supporting him in dong a real good thing to increase his approval rating. Not his ministers and not his component parties.

Anonymous said...

In my opinion, it should not be "equality" but "equitability" to all states.

(The two are not the same.)

Tak Dak Nama 3

Gelombang Rakyat said...

Tunku, jika ada saluran hubungan dengan Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, boleh sampaikan bahawa beliau tidak perlu menggunakan perkataan reform, as in reforming UMNO. He can wisely start with the word Transform as in I am offering a service to transform UMNO. Thank you.