Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Despite his leadership being challenged, Tun M says he faced it all


TRP140915-3 mahathir
NAWAR FIRDAWS By:
Nawar Firdaws
Former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad says he, too, faced challenges to his leadership during the time he led Umno. He claims Umno members faced threats when they wanted to meet him now. — TRP file pic
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7, 2015:
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, too, was challenged during his time as Prime Minister, but instead of interfering in the democratic process, he faced it head on.
Writing on his blog, Chedet, Dr Mahathir recounted the time Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and Tun Musa Hitam tried to remove him from his Prime Minister post.
“There were some divisions who nominated Tengku Razaleigh and Musa Hitam as president and deputy president respectively. I didn’t consider them my enemies who needed to have action taken against them.
“There was no restriction against their nomination as that was the way of democracy,” Dr Mahathir wrote, further alleging that Umno president (Datuk Seri Najib Razak) had disallowed him from meeting Umno leaders and members despite there being no official challenge to his post yet.
He alleged the presence of threats in the instructions barring Umno members from meeting him, claiming that the threats consisted of possible disciplinary action, investigation and expulsion.
The nation’s longest serving premier claimed that at the same time, those who reprimanded Najib were accused of sabotage and attempts to topple the Umno president, who was elected democratically.
He claimed that the trend, whereby those brave enough to prompt initiation of an investigation against Najib were the ones who ended up being investigated, had changed the nation’s democratic image into one akin to a police state.
Dr Mahathir accused the Barisan Nasional (BN) led government of being no longer democratic by stopping its members from participating in political-based lectures, barring them from even attending talks featuring him.
“Although I am still an Umno member and was the Umno president, I am perceived by the current party leaders as an enemy to the party that I led for 22 years.”

source therakyatpost.com

No comments:

Post a Comment