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PENANG (March 18, 2008): Organising street protests will only reflect negatively on Penang Umno members, PAS vice president Datuk Husam Musa said today.
"Their street demonstration is just a wasted effort as it will only lead towards a negative view of them and not the state government," he told reporters after paying a courtesy call on Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. He also urged the federal government to take a healthy approach in reforming the government for the better, such as a better management of anti-corruption and a relook at the judiciary system. "If they concentrate on sabotaging the five states under Opposition rule, it will not benefit them at all," he said. Husam said the five states of Kelantan, Selangor, Perak, Penang and Kedah should now look towards cooperating and working together towards econo,ic development. "It will be our joint-commitment to bring about positive changes for the people of Malaysia," he said. He also voiced his strong backing to the DAP-PKR Penang state government with Lim at the helm, emphasising his confidence in the state government to pay attention to all Penangites, including the Malays. On the furore over the open tender policy here, Husam said the quota system is not and have not always been an issue. "What is an issue is the condition of the Malay villages and the opportunities available to them," he said. He said Umno has been ruling Malaysia for 50 years but the Malays are still being left out ,so it showed they are the ones who had failed to fight for the rights of the Malays. "Umno is now getting desperate as they are using the media to create anxiety and dissatisfaction amongst the Malays against DAP through Utusan Malaysia while The Star and New Straits Times are being used to create the similar negative feelings amongst the non-Malays against PAS and PKR," he said. "The efforts were merely to divert the attention of the people so that they (Umno) could shirk their responsibilities to the people," he added. - THE SUN
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In fact all of my malay friends does not see UMNO as defender of Malay rights. They see UMNO as enriching umnoputras themselves to shares contracts.The new Malays are beeter informed.