Exposé by DAP’s Zulkifli proves Rocket had slandered BN

Revelations by former DAP vice chairman Zulkifli Mohd Noor where he alleged that DAP likens its Malay members to a “50sen race (and that without them, DAP will not be able to reach 1million members)”, exposes the fact that to consolidate their power, DAP CEC top honchos manipulated the results of their party polls last December. His comments also indicate that in order to cover up their own problems, DAP leaders will not hesitate to pin blame on Barisan Nasional and the Registrar of Societies and slandering both entities as having an intent to cause DAP to be declared an illegal political party.

As a senior DAP leader who is a Malay, Zulkifli’s revelations at a press conference on 19 September 2013 suggests that in order to consolidate their party position, DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng had manipulated the DAP polls last year. Questions must be raised on the errors in the results which appear to be fraudulent.

DAP had repeated accused BN and RoS of compelling the re-elections of the DAP CEC to be held. Undoubtedly, Zulkifli’s remarks are a slap on DAP’s face as it indicates that DAP was never truthful from the start until the finish, whereby behind closed-doors, results of DAP’s controversial party elections could actually be modified.

In fact, when DAP’s election results were disputed, suddenly modifications were carried out to the results which indicates the entire process was undemocratic, unjust and never transparent. DAP had even complained that BN had conspired with the RoS, but now DAP’s own member, Zulkifli has unmasked DAP’s true face.

DAP now claims that the CEC re-elections will be fully supervised to ensure no occurrences of fraud. However, Zulkifli had discovered that DAP leaders were suspected to cause the outcome of the results behind closed doors. Hence, the RoS instructing DAP to convene re-elections is the correct instruction.

I agree with Zulkifli’s remarks that this month’s DAP election results will prove whether DAP fulfills its “Malaysian Malaysia” slogan and will identify whether last December’s results and incident were a fact or fraud.

Tan Cheng Liang

Wanita MCA Penang Chairman

Wanita MCA Penang challenges DAP to insert local council elections into the Pakatan Manifesto – Lim Guan Eng should not play political tricks

By raising the topic of restoring local council elections, DAP Secretary General is just out to deceive Penang voters. This pledge was made five years ago, but yet, to date, the DAP-led state government once again raises this issue up to hoodwink voters.

As the state government does not have the funds and similarly cannot deliver on their promise, they now blame the federal government, saying that it is the federal government’s fault.

The question that has to be raised is that why did Pakatan not include “restoration of local council elections” in Pakatan’s Manifesto Rakyat? Is it because certain political parties disagree to holding such local polls? Or is because they never even thought about inserting this subject into their Manifesto?

DAP is adamant to that local council elections be restored. Yet, with local council polls being excluded from the Manifesto Rakyat, how can DAP talk about consensus among the three political parties?

Blackmailing the federal government proves DAP’s insincerity & political gimmick

Issuing an ultimatum to Putrajaya to restore local council polls for Penang is tantamount blackmail and a political gimmick. If Guan Eng and DAP were sincere in their demands that local council elections be held, then they should have insisted that local council polls be included in the Manifesto Rakyat. Otherwise, they should withdraw their threat of suing the federal government if the latter does not issue the order to the Election Commission to conduct local polls.

I believe that Guan Eng holds no sincerity at all to restore local government elections. At his press conference yesterday, his threat against the federal government was carried out merely to provoke an issue to win votes given that the general election is just around the corner.

“Manifesto is not a promise”

It should be pointed out that Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim had claimed that an election manifesto is not a promise, and hence, there is no necessarily to fulfill it. These being his words and deeds all go to prove that Pakatan’s general election manifesto i.e. Manifesto Rakyat released in various languages written and spoken in Malaysia may emit excitement but is left completely useless, because there is no need nor urgency to honour the pledges contained therein.

As political leaders, it is most crucial to keep to one’s promises. Politicians must perform and honour whatever has been pledge in the general election manifesto. Otherwise, contrary to being trustworthy, their pledges are best described as unconvincing.

Nik Aziz should focus on Pakatan’s unfulfilled promises instead of condescending needy people as animals

PAS spiritual adviser Dato’ Seri Nik Aziz whereby insulted the Bantuan Rakyat 1 Malaysia (BR1M) should be chastised for completely disdaining Barisan Nasional’s efforts to alleviate the burden of the lower income groups as “like scattering padi and coconut husks in front of chickens and cows to entice them to come close (The Star, 21 Feb 13).” Effectively, Nik Aziz has disparaged BR1M recipients by likening them as animals.

I wish to alert the Nik Aziz that the destitute, the underprivileged are also decent human beings who are our fellow citizens. The PAS spiritual adviser has no right humiliating them but on the contrary, should be able to empathise with their daily struggles.

BN delivers where Pakatan state governments fail

On the contrary, PAS should be appreciative of BN’s efforts to reach out to the needy irrespective of their political affiliation in states throughout Malaysia including Pakatan-helmed states like Kelantan which is reputed to have the highest rate of poverty on the peninsular, Kedah, Selangor and Penang.

The BR1M aid to households earning less than RM3,000 per month, or RM250 aid to singles above 21 years and earning below RM200 monthly will benefit 2.7million unmarried individuals and 4 million households. Meanwhile, a few other examples of BN’s efforts which benefit every Malaysians are:

·        RM100 schooling assistance for Year 1 to Form 5 students
·        Insurance coverage for children travelling by school bus
·        Reducing individual income tax by 1% for each grouped annual income tax exceeding RM2,500 to RM5,000 which will remove 170,000 from paying tax

This shows BN’s sincerity which is completely opposite to that of state governments helmed by Pakatan.

Penang

In Penang, the Penang state government introduced an Anak Emas Programme where each newborn would be given a one-off RM100 imbursement. Elements of discrimination already prevail where the condition stipulates at least one parent must be a registered voter in Penang. This similar prequalifier is also applied to other DAP-helmed Penang state government programmes like RM100 each paid annually to eligible recipients under the Senior Citizens Appreciation Programme; Single Mother and Disabled Person Programme and Golden Students Programe.

These eligibility sieves indicate the Penang DAP state government’s insincerity in its project while blackmailing parents into switching the constituency where they cast their vote.

Selangor

In Selangor, the Pakatan state government has failed to deliver on their 2008 manifesto to provide:

·        free medical benefits for senior citizens above the age of 65
·        RM75 financial assistance per month for every child sent to a nursery
·        RM50 monthly assistance for pre-school education
·        RM2,500 in Takaful (insurance) for senior citizeins, the disabled and orphans

The Pakatan Selangor state government goes down history as the first state administration to be sued for not fulfilling its promises e.g. special monthly allowances of RM600 for single mothers, while other suits are underway.

Guan Eng “green-eyed” over Psy’s invitation to perform at BN’s event

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng is jealous that Korean pop star Park Jae-Sang, better known as Psy, has been invited and sponsored by a private company to be a special guest to meet with the Prime Minister who will be in Penang to attend the state Barinsa Nasional’s Chinese New Year Open House and to perform his hit song while he is there.

By calling on people to wear red, green and yellow coloured clothes to attend the Penang BN’s Chinese New Year Open House, Guan Eng has proven himself to be psychologically unbalanced and practising double standards.

Most of the public feel that Guan Eng’s remarks are ridiculous, as he himself had promoted the event. In claiming that a performance by Psy will help to boost Penang’s economy proves that he is a man of many masks.

Besides not being a local of Penang, Guan Eng has also contributed nothing to Penang’s success in the past five years. Instead, he has arrogantly used Penang as his own personal asset or for his party’s own good.

Guan Eng is also not being fair to the non-Muslims as he does nothing to stop others from suffering. He should not simply criticize his political opponents and their policies when he himself practises double standards when it comes to irrational policies implemented by his fellow Pakatan allies, especially in Kedah and Kelantan where female performers are banned and hairstylists cannot attend to clients of the opposite sex.

Based on Penang’s achievements, I believe it is better if Guan Eng and his assistant Ng Wei Aik focus more on protecting the public’s interest instead of undermining BN’s favourable measures which are meant to help develop the state for Penangites.

And last but not least, I invite everyone to attend Penang BN’s Chinese New Year open house which is to be held in Penang’s Han Chiang High School in order to promote unity and harmony between all Malaysians regardless of race, religion and beliefs.

Gender segregation at hair salons outrageous; causes unjust income loss on non-Muslims

MCA’s sounding the alarm that PAS’ policies will affect non-Muslim is once again proven in the recent case where the Kota Bharu Municipal Council (MPKB) slapped summons against Chinese, non-Muslim female hair salon owners after deeming that they had committed an offence in cutting the hair of non-Muslim male clients. Section 107(2) of the Local Council Act by-laws forbids unisex services at Kota Bharu hair salons irrespective of religion.

In claiming that non-Muslims are not subject to PAS hudud enactments nor would they affect non-Muslims, PAS is lying absolutely through their teeth. This deception is designed to appear moderate and win non-Muslim ballots. The hair dressers’ case in Kota Bharu is just another example as to how PAS policies causes unjust income loss on non-Muslim entrepreneurs trying to earn an honest living.

Livelihoods stunted

It is bad enough that PAS tears families apart when it enforces separated check out counters and cinemas in Kelantan, but the extension of this gender segregation ruling to hair salons owners results with unnecessary economic hardship and talent loss. This is because, in addition to having to pay fines, proprietors would have to reduce hiring employees or even releasing a few of them as they cannot accept clients of the opposite gender which effectively leads to a reduction of clients coming to their hair salon.

Hair stylists would also have to leave Kelantan state to seek a living in other states, while consumers maybe burdened with higher costs as hair dressers raise their prices to cover rental and other overheads.

PAS must stop treating people as immature

The premises of the hair salon is transparent, whereby outsiders can see through the glass walls the hair dressers cutting, colouring or perming their customers’ hair. Hence, it is impossible to carry out form of unsavoury or obscene activity in broad daylight at a public outlet.

Something must be very warped with PAS’ mentality to assume that any form of contact between a pair of scissors, comb and hair dye with the hair of the opposite gender leads to lust. Such self-righteousness spells sheer hypocrisy like the holier-than-thou Talibans who had no qualms oppressing their own people.

Who cares for DAP’s consensus call? PAS? Not at all

DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng’s declaration that so long as there is no consensus or that PAS’ proposals are not contained in Pakatan’s Buku Jingga, PAS hudud enactments will not be adopted. However, the Kelantan scenario clearly shows that PAS does not care a twig as to what DAP announces.

DAP wields no influence at all in trying to reason with PAS. Hence, DAP will not be able to protect the non-Muslim community but paradoxically is only helping PAS to subjugate Malaysians further no different from the Taliban regime.

Tan Cheng Liang
Wanita MCA Penang chairman

林氏父子更应为失职而辞职

（吉隆坡1日讯) 马华槟州妇女组主席陈清凉揶揄林吉祥，数十年以来挑战过无数的政治人物辞职，但是他自己却从来不需要为本身的失职而辞职。林吉祥和林冠英父子俩动辄就要人引咎辞职，如果真正要计算，林氏父子早就应该因无法兑现的种种诺言而引咎辞职。

她今日是针对林吉祥声称，如果国会222名议员当中有超过半数，即至少112名议员赞成搁置落实自动执法系统（AES），交通部长江作汉便别无选择需为此引咎辞职一事，如此表示。

“倘若要数林吉祥和林冠英才更应该引咎辞职，我看他们父子俩也应该需要引咎辞职不下7次了！自林冠英上任首长以来，跳票的承诺多不胜数，其中有槟城泊车费收到午夜、承诺关闭双溪育收费站、原本建人民组屋的土地变成建私人医院、落实地方选举、老虎园计划告吹，发展山坡破坏自然生态以及承诺改善公共交通系统却做不到等等。不仅如此，林吉祥也曾许下跳票的承诺,当中有三宝山基金,高等教育基金,Shell官司基金等。

她补充，民联尤其行动党曾信口开河的许下许多承诺，但却从未对未落实的承诺作出交代和解释。民联常要求国阵政府在任何工程发展上保持透明度，但是最后却漠视透明、公开招标政策，而槟城人民最需要的是人民组屋，民联却将兴建人民组屋的土地兴建私人医院，完全没有顾及人民需求。

“林吉祥既然那么喜欢挑战别人辞职，那么他应该先叫自己的儿子引咎辞职才对。”

首长跳舞博宣传 不务实办事

(槟城23日讯) 马华槟州妇女组主席陈清凉揶揄林冠英与其花时间参与Ubah Rocket Style跳舞部分博宣传，倒不如时时在在的脚踏实地认真工作，特别是在林首长接手后升旗山缆车更是屡次出现事故，导致游客怨声四起。

“升旗山新缆车是中央旅游部拨款给州政府的工程，但是一年来却不断发生人为事故造成故障，中央政府甚至耗资6300万令吉建设第一等级的基本设施，但是槟州政府却因为管理不当，搞到最终第三级管理水准，导致新缆车刚启用不久就屡屡出现问题。”

她补充，在没有妥善解决和加强维修管理缆车新缆车问题之际，甚至还调涨缆车收费，一味只会自吹自擂说州政府的钱生钱之道。可是，在提升服务水准上却一点也没有进步改善。部分游客大吐苦水投诉缆车发生故障，导致受困山上错过班机，可见的州政府并没有因缆车故障吸取经验，而采取危机应变，因此其危机管理意识可谓差强人意。

她说，槟城乃东方之珠，这非但影响槟城名声，甚至冲击槟城旅游业，搞到旅客怨声四起。继本月15日发生的缆车事故问题，是新缆车于去年开始川行以来，至今已经发生不下10次的故障了。

“林冠英却只管花时间全国跑透透进行政治演讲入住布城，也不看看Ubah了的槟城现状，槟城的外来投资目前已跌至第7，交通严重阻塞、一雨成灾，以及无法落实的人民组屋等种种问题。”