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Tuan Guru Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang (file pic) today issued a stern warning to Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties against using racial politics to win support among voters.<\/p>\nTuan Guru Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang (file pic) today issued a stern warning to Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties against using racial politics to win support among voters.<\/p>\n
The PAS president claimed that BN had been ramping up its efforts in using \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cnarrow-minded\u201d politics as a desperate attempt to try and woo over the different races in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe narrow-minded politics and racist sentiments have now become weapons and a means in which BN leaders are desperately trying to win back support, as though voters would be so easily swayed in today\u2019s information world,\u201d Abdul Hadi said in a statement posted today on his blog.<\/p>\n
Abdul Hadi took a swipe at the MCA\u2019s recent Chinese Economic Congress, claiming that the issues raised by MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek was a mere \u201cmanifestation\u201d of the failure of BN in understanding the needs of the different races in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe issues raised by the MCA president in the form of resolutions from the economic congress held recently are nothing more than a mere manifestation of the failure of Barisan Nasional in understanding the needs and rights of the different races in the country,\u201d said the PAS president.<\/p>\n
The MCA\u2019s Chinese Economic Congress held on August 14 had called for economic liberalisation and a merit-based and needs-based system to contribute to the path for Malaysia to be globally competitive.<\/p>\n
The congress had called for an abolishment of the 30 percent Bumiputera equity target, which had resulted in a verbal war between Umno\u2019s top leaders and MCA.<\/p>\n
Abdul Hadi however dismissed MCA\u2019s seemingly bolder stance, accusing the BN component party of being \u201celitist\u201d and having failed to look after the poorer Chinese population.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation becomes more complicated when MCA, which is an elitist party led by the rich has not been able to defend or look after the needs of the Chinese poor. This failure is also seen in MIC,\u201d said Abdul Hadi.<\/p>\n
The Marang MP also lashed out at Umno for discriminating against Malays in unfair economic distribution of wealth over the years.<\/p>\n
Abdul Hadi said that only Malays who were aligned to Umno-BN benefited from the economic policies practiced by BN.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Malays in this country can no longer trust in Umno to look after their interests, as we have seen over the years how the country\u2019s economic system has led to unfair economic distribution of wealth to Umno-putras.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis injustice is not only felt by many races in our country, even within the Malays as there is discrimination towards Malays and Bumiputeras who are not politically-aligned with the Umno-BN government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Abdul Hadi\u2019s remarks calling for BN to stop playing up racial politics comes amid fresh allegations by Umno against the Penang Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government under DAP\u2019s Lim Guan Eng.<\/p>\n
Penang Umno chief Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zabidi had claimed that several mosques in the Tasek Gelugor, Permatang Pauh and Jelutong areas had replaced the Yang di-Pertuan Agong\u2019s name with Lim\u2019s name during Friday sermons.<\/p>\n
The Penang state government has vehemently denied Umno\u2019s allegations.-MalaysianInsider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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