Happy Deepavali!

To all the Indian comrades in Malaysia. Happy Deepavali!

Charlie

Why non-Malays back Isa Samad?

Finally, BN wins. The coalition has finally tasted victory in Bagan Pinang. Not only a win, more importantly, it is landslides win and the increase in non-Malay votes. This is really something important for Umno who now can claim that they have gotten back the support from the non-Malays. But some might think that the non-Malays embraced BN again.
To me, the non-Malay not necessary voted for Umno, MCA or MIC when they crossed out the “dacing”. Here are the few reasons why non-Malays “voted dacing”:

1. Based on an unofficial source, Isa Samad garnered 75% of the 1870 Indian’s votes. But this doesn’t mean MIC is now gained back that support of the Indians. Indians are traditionally support BN blindly, no matter how much progress they made in the last 3 decades under the MIC.
   
   The Indians supported PR in the 2008 GE was due to the reason of wakeup call to the faith of their community and also the way BN government handled Hindraf incident, it was still fresh in their memory during 2008 GE.
   
   Now, Najib knows this well and hence, sned the Indians a friendly gensture to the newly formed Makkal Sakti Party. It is more likely that that the Indians voted BN for this reason rather than they love MIC. But we heard the thick skin Samy Vellu is claiming credit on the Indian votes, he said "We (MIC) have kept our promise to the prime minister by delivering the Indian votes to BN. What else? Isa Samad speaks Tamil…
   
2. Chinese also in this By-election, voted for Isa Samad. They voted for Isa is more because of Isa Samad is a local and he was very supportive of the local Chinese community when he was the MB. People are familiar with him and most of them admitted that they had voted for the Isa rather than for Umno. But don’t the Chinese community concerns about Isa’s tainted image? Really who cares if the man can contribute to the community, furthermore, Isa is not an exception, who is clean in Umno?
   
3. But didn’t the internal problems with BN component parties drive non –Malay voters away? Again, the reason is no one cares about what happened in MIC and MCA. The 2 parties already out dated and irrelevant.
   No matter what, this is not a healthy development for Malaysian politics as the voters endorsed a corrupted person. This shows that Malaysian has already immune to corruption and it is now “no big deal”. Isa’s supporters can even go to extent of threatening the Umno top brass leaders of boycotting Umno in the by-election if Isa is not chosen as the candidate.
   

Are we heading towards a more and more corrupted society?