Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad today suggested that Malay rights advocate Perkasa can be credited for the swing in Malay votes for Barisan Nasional during the Hulu Selangor by-election.
“Maybe it's because of Perkasa, (most) Malays voted for BN. We will never know. (In the past) there are so many Malays who won't support BN. If (BN does not support Perkasa), we may not get the Malay vote.
“And if we don't have the Chinese vote as well, the vote will go to Pakatan (Rakyat) lah,” he told a press conference after delivering a lecture titled Malaysia as a Maritime Nation - Are We There? at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
It almost seems as though PERKASA is the alter ego of UMNO and here, we have a case of a former PM validating PERKASA's so called 'deeds' and moral crusade which does not seem to have raised the eyebrows of the main players in UMNO.
While on one hand PERKASA has been criticizing UMNO for various reasons, they have not received any flak from our PM and instead, here we have a clear case of public validation of a by-election victory which presumably should be claimed by BN, especially by our PM who personally went down to the ground to lobby for votes.
Ironically, in BN, one quarter after another is trying to claim credit for the BN victory in HS whilst in PR, we have a witch-hunt going on to justify why Datuk Zaid lost.
As it stands, this case shows us a case of "I scratch my back while you scratch mine."
Hmm...I wonder what are the other benefits from such 'back-scratching' pursuits?
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Catherine Maybe it's because of Perkasa, most Malays voted for BN. We will never know.
Maybe it's because of Perkasa, most non-Malays voted for PR. We will never know.