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
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