Many of us are expecting that Umno would be send over to the opposition bench come next general elections as our people are getting fed up with its current dirty politics.
The question here is, will Umno be able to perform as an effective opposition in the first place? For more than 55 years of Umno’s ruling at the federal level as well as in most of the states, Umno leaders are still complaining that the Malay community nationwide are being sidelined and the official religion of this country, Islam is under threat. When they are complaining, it is everything about race and religion. Umno leaders are doing everything it can to drum up the sentiments of race and religion in its politics of revenge, hate and threatening.
So, for more than 55 years of governance, and yet Umno leaders are still complaining that the Malays are being sidelined and Islam is under threat. Who is in the wrong then? Why are the Malays are still being sidelined when Umno is still in power? Why is Islam under threat while Umno is still in power effectively? Why is PKR being blamed for selling away the interests of the Malays? Why is DAP being blamed for trying to establish a Christian State? Why is PAS being blamed for being unIslamic? Is this the fault of the Opposition front Pakatan Rakyat (consisting of PKR, DAP and PAS) when the Malays in this country still under Umno’s control are being sidelined and Islam is under threat?
For 55 years, and yet the Malays are still being sidelined and Islam is also under threat while Umno still controls the entire nation. That means Umno had failed in their governance one hundred percent. When this country is still under Umno, and yet they are still complaining that the race that they claimed to be representing are still being sidelined and the religion that they claimed to uphold is under threat, then Umno has been proven to be the master of all these failures.
In this case, when they failed as the government of the day, we are wondering if Umno would be able to perform as opposition members if they were to be send over to the opposing bench come next general elections? We doubt that as well. It because, when they are governing, they are doing nothing much to convince our people on many issues on our nation, which are related to public interests, such as finance, economy, government spending, rising inflation, subsidies, labour issues, illegal immigrants, rising crimes, power abuse, corruption and many more.
What Umno leaders know are merely on promoting sentiments of suspicion on race and religion by putting more and more fire so that revenge, hate and threat would rise, and if these so, Umno would definitely take advantage of the entire situation. And once the race and religious issues are being harped on continuously, they will bring in the royals to help them to drum up the entire situation, so that those who speak up against them would be labelled as “penderhaka” or persons committing treason.
So, what is Umno good for the country being in the government of the day or in the opposition bench? They would definitely serve no purpose at all as all these subject are not in the interest of our people and the nation entirely.
Therefore, if we were to vote in a new government to replace Umno or whoever it is in the BN coalition, we ought to bring in the other smaller political parties as well to perform as new Oppositions instead of passing this responsibilities over to Umno or BN. Why not give the role of the new Opposition to Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM), Parti Kesejahteraan Insan Tanah Air (KITA), Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), Sabah & Sarawak State Reform Party (STAR), Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan) and People’s Progressive Party (PPP) as these political parties are seen to be more of a Malaysian-oriented and issues-focused, rather than based on race or religion?
What can Umno, MCA or MIC could do? As long as Umno still exists, they will continue to harp on issues related to the Malays, Islam and imagining that they are being under threat, same goes to MCA, who will continue harping on the danger of this country might be coming under the rules of Hudud, while MIC will continue talking about Indian rights but nothing has been done in the end. Then, in this case, let us bring in the new Opposition instead of letting this role in the hands of Umno.
