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Sunday, March 25, 2012
(TAN) CHEE KOON'S SON - UMNO TAK BOLEH PAKAI!
CHEE KOON'S SON
UMNO TAK BOLEH PAKAI
Our Country needs much prayer. Youdecide and make a difference. BN is entrenched and would not change.A new government must be given a chance to take over Putrajaya. BN is proven rotten beyond salvage. PR is not perfect but must be given a chance to prove themselves.A (small) chip off the old Opposition bloc
KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 — For 13 years, he stiffly toed the Barisan Nasional (BN) line, but Dr Tan Kee Kong is now bending his knees to bat the ruling coalition — more specifically, its senior party — out of Putrajaya.
“My dream is to kick Umno out of Putra Jaya,” the 63-year-old who quit Gerakan for PKR two years ago told The Malaysian Insider with much vigour in a recent interview.
“Umno tak boleh pakai,” Dr Tan(picture) crowed, counting down the days to the next general election,which he believes will end with the grand old party being voted out by an electorate that had grown more informed of an alternative choice in government since Election 2008. The medical doctor, who retired from practice a decade ago, noted an increasing intolerance at the grassroots level for leaders who failed to practise what they preached and at party leaders too timid to press for reforms.
“We tried, believe me sister, we tried. The time for talking is over. Now is the time for action – kick them out,” Dr Tan said, rather savagely. “BN on one hand is promoting 1Malaysia, it is a good concept but on the other hand, they are promoting Perkasa – their group was registered in six months. Where got such thing? How can?” he quizzed.
A tall, spare man, Dr Tan’s diatribe against the government continued, like a burst dam. He slammed Umno for its double-speak and setting a trend for Malay rights groups like Perkasa.
“I can guarantee you PETRONAS contributes 30 per cent to the government, but the Petronas account has never been tabled in Parliament.
“We run it like a kongsi gelap. What justification is there that the highest lawmakers in the country cannot examine the accounts of Petronas?” he raised, rhetorically.
“The only conclusion is your government have plenty to hide and I blame Dr Mahathir for starting this practice. We in PAC have asked for it but it was never shared,” he added, referring to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
Pointing to the last by-election in Sibu, Dr Tan said the groundswell was growing against Umno’s high-handedness in dealing with divergent views.
“Allah has never been an issue…until stupid Syed Hamid made it into an issue,” Dr Tan ranted.
A devout Christian, Dr Tan was referring to the lawsuits brought by several churches and Christians against the Federal government and its former Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar, for barring non-Muslims from using the word to describe God.
“My Umno friend asked me: ‘Why Christians only now want to use the word?’ But he doesn’t know the facts. He didn’t know we have been using it for so long and it was only Syed Hamid who banned us from using it,” Dr Tan related.
But the PKR man, who is now co-chief on Selangor state’s land management task force admitted the “real fight” to capture Putrajaya lies not with the urban voters in their steel-glass-concrete towers but the masses who live outside the cities.
"We’re going to Felda," he said but refused to elaborate further. The former deputy minister of land and co-operative development recently provoked a national uproar when he accused Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak of single handedly destroying the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) by siphoning off millions from the nation’s cash cow for the latter’s personal use.
Najib has denied the claim but has not signaled he will take any legal action over the potentially defamatory statement.
Similarly, Dr Tan maintains his allegations are true, adding that he had been entrusted to answer all questions on Felda in the Dewan Rakyat by his then boss, minister Tan Sri Kasitah Gaddam.
A latecomer to politics at 50, Dr Tan said he had been “head-hunted” to join Gerakan in 1995 by its then vice-president, Tan Sri Alex Lee. The irony was not lost to those around them — the medical doctor was the son of Gerakan co-founder Tan Sri Dr David Tan Chee Khoon while Lee, a lawyer, was the grandson of MCA’s founding member, Tun H.S. Lee.
”If I were 30, I would think seriously[of leaving], but now in the twilight of my life, no,” said Dr Tan.
Dr Tan explained he hesitated joining politics at a younger age because of his father. “I saw how he suffered. His health suffered. He literally gave up his life to serve,” the younger Tan said.
Surprisingly, despite Dr Tan’s disillusionment with the BN, he still took pains to defend Gerakan, even though the party his father founded in 1968 was not the same party the son joined.
“Of all the component parties in Barisan, Gerakan is the most conscientious,” he said. The party had by then entered the BN fold. Even so, the Dr Tan was optimistic he could follow in his father’s footsteps and make a difference.
“My father always told us: help the poor,” he said.
But he soon learnt that joining Gerakan did not mean he would be able to move reforms unless approved by the coalition’s “tai kor” – Umno. He became disheartened and even had thoughts of quitting the country altogether. ”If I were 30, I would think seriously, but now in the twilight of my life, no,” said Dr Tan.
He claimed the ruling front does not practice consensual agreement, despite the current MCA’s growing boldness (ha ha ha) in speaking out against its sister-party.
“I want to tell Chua Soi Lek: ‘Eh, brother, do you know we’ve been in BN so long, we will never have an equal voice. They are the tai kor.’ “We all had to toe the line, or else…” Dr Tan said, recounting the silent threat.
He was planning on retiring from politics altogether but an encounter with a taxi driver on a trip to Singapore changed all that. “In 2000, I flew into Singapore and jumped into this taxi and this man, 63 years old, thisMalay man born in Batu Pahat, Johor who went to Singapore 40 years ago, he told me: ‘Doctor, we Singaporeans will challenge your country and win’.
“That shut me up. That really opened my eyes to how Umno has used the
NEP as a crutch to appeal to the ordinary Malay. Just go ask any ordinary Malay out there, they’re fuming,” Dr Tan said, adding that Singapore’s People’s Action Party (PAP) had drummed into its citizen’s heads that the only way forward for the nation was for everyone to: “Get off your backside and work”.
“We are a government-in-waiting. Give us a chance. If you don’t like us, you can vote us out in the next election,” Dr Tan pleaded.
“I have a burning zeal to try and build a better country, with the public’s help and with God’s help,” he said.
Have a God-blessed day.
UMNO TAK BOLEH PAKAI
Our Country needs much prayer. Youdecide and make a difference. BN is entrenched and would not change.A new government must be given a chance to take over Putrajaya. BN is proven rotten beyond salvage. PR is not perfect but must be given a chance to prove themselves.A (small) chip off the old Opposition bloc
KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 — For 13 years, he stiffly toed the Barisan Nasional (BN) line, but Dr Tan Kee Kong is now bending his knees to bat the ruling coalition — more specifically, its senior party — out of Putrajaya.
“My dream is to kick Umno out of Putra Jaya,” the 63-year-old who quit Gerakan for PKR two years ago told The Malaysian Insider with much vigour in a recent interview.
“Umno tak boleh pakai,” Dr Tan(picture) crowed, counting down the days to the next general election,which he believes will end with the grand old party being voted out by an electorate that had grown more informed of an alternative choice in government since Election 2008. The medical doctor, who retired from practice a decade ago, noted an increasing intolerance at the grassroots level for leaders who failed to practise what they preached and at party leaders too timid to press for reforms.
“We tried, believe me sister, we tried. The time for talking is over. Now is the time for action – kick them out,” Dr Tan said, rather savagely. “BN on one hand is promoting 1Malaysia, it is a good concept but on the other hand, they are promoting Perkasa – their group was registered in six months. Where got such thing? How can?” he quizzed.
A tall, spare man, Dr Tan’s diatribe against the government continued, like a burst dam. He slammed Umno for its double-speak and setting a trend for Malay rights groups like Perkasa.
“I can guarantee you PETRONAS contributes 30 per cent to the government, but the Petronas account has never been tabled in Parliament.
“We run it like a kongsi gelap. What justification is there that the highest lawmakers in the country cannot examine the accounts of Petronas?” he raised, rhetorically.
“The only conclusion is your government have plenty to hide and I blame Dr Mahathir for starting this practice. We in PAC have asked for it but it was never shared,” he added, referring to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.
Pointing to the last by-election in Sibu, Dr Tan said the groundswell was growing against Umno’s high-handedness in dealing with divergent views.
“Allah has never been an issue…until stupid Syed Hamid made it into an issue,” Dr Tan ranted.
A devout Christian, Dr Tan was referring to the lawsuits brought by several churches and Christians against the Federal government and its former Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar, for barring non-Muslims from using the word to describe God.
“My Umno friend asked me: ‘Why Christians only now want to use the word?’ But he doesn’t know the facts. He didn’t know we have been using it for so long and it was only Syed Hamid who banned us from using it,” Dr Tan related.
But the PKR man, who is now co-chief on Selangor state’s land management task force admitted the “real fight” to capture Putrajaya lies not with the urban voters in their steel-glass-concrete towers but the masses who live outside the cities.
"We’re going to Felda," he said but refused to elaborate further. The former deputy minister of land and co-operative development recently provoked a national uproar when he accused Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak of single handedly destroying the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) by siphoning off millions from the nation’s cash cow for the latter’s personal use.
Najib has denied the claim but has not signaled he will take any legal action over the potentially defamatory statement.
Similarly, Dr Tan maintains his allegations are true, adding that he had been entrusted to answer all questions on Felda in the Dewan Rakyat by his then boss, minister Tan Sri Kasitah Gaddam.
A latecomer to politics at 50, Dr Tan said he had been “head-hunted” to join Gerakan in 1995 by its then vice-president, Tan Sri Alex Lee. The irony was not lost to those around them — the medical doctor was the son of Gerakan co-founder Tan Sri Dr David Tan Chee Khoon while Lee, a lawyer, was the grandson of MCA’s founding member, Tun H.S. Lee.
”If I were 30, I would think seriously[of leaving], but now in the twilight of my life, no,” said Dr Tan.
Dr Tan explained he hesitated joining politics at a younger age because of his father. “I saw how he suffered. His health suffered. He literally gave up his life to serve,” the younger Tan said.
Surprisingly, despite Dr Tan’s disillusionment with the BN, he still took pains to defend Gerakan, even though the party his father founded in 1968 was not the same party the son joined.
“Of all the component parties in Barisan, Gerakan is the most conscientious,” he said. The party had by then entered the BN fold. Even so, the Dr Tan was optimistic he could follow in his father’s footsteps and make a difference.
“My father always told us: help the poor,” he said.
But he soon learnt that joining Gerakan did not mean he would be able to move reforms unless approved by the coalition’s “tai kor” – Umno. He became disheartened and even had thoughts of quitting the country altogether. ”If I were 30, I would think seriously, but now in the twilight of my life, no,” said Dr Tan.
He claimed the ruling front does not practice consensual agreement, despite the current MCA’s growing boldness (ha ha ha) in speaking out against its sister-party.
“I want to tell Chua Soi Lek: ‘Eh, brother, do you know we’ve been in BN so long, we will never have an equal voice. They are the tai kor.’ “We all had to toe the line, or else…” Dr Tan said, recounting the silent threat.
He was planning on retiring from politics altogether but an encounter with a taxi driver on a trip to Singapore changed all that. “In 2000, I flew into Singapore and jumped into this taxi and this man, 63 years old, thisMalay man born in Batu Pahat, Johor who went to Singapore 40 years ago, he told me: ‘Doctor, we Singaporeans will challenge your country and win’.
“That shut me up. That really opened my eyes to how Umno has used the
NEP as a crutch to appeal to the ordinary Malay. Just go ask any ordinary Malay out there, they’re fuming,” Dr Tan said, adding that Singapore’s People’s Action Party (PAP) had drummed into its citizen’s heads that the only way forward for the nation was for everyone to: “Get off your backside and work”.
“We are a government-in-waiting. Give us a chance. If you don’t like us, you can vote us out in the next election,” Dr Tan pleaded.
“I have a burning zeal to try and build a better country, with the public’s help and with God’s help,” he said.
Have a God-blessed day.
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