COMMENT | The prime minister seems to have a penchant for picking the wrong people and then dropping them.
| PM Mahathir Mohammed is true to form and has done it again. Another blunder, another ouster.
Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew was such a man."I did not enter politics but politics entered me,'' was one of his revelations in his biography. And a leader like Mahathir, disappointingly, adds fuel to the fire by supporting events such as the Malay Dignity Congress and Muslim Summit that skew toward one race.
Lee became even more resolved to build up his island state after Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia in 1965.No. Instead he planned for them, he catered to them and cared for them in a Singapore dominated by the Chinese. He even made a Malay president." cart? Lee would have put the troublemakers in jail.The sad irony for the late Tunku Abdul Rahman was Lee did not do him in politically, as he feared, but one of his own kind did.
Malaysia, the original cosmopolitan country, desperately needs a leader, not necessarily a man, who loves the diverse races of Malaysia and genuinely wants to work for and ensure their welfare. You put the nation first by putting the welfare of the poor, the business people, the schooling of children, the employment of youth and graduates, the retirement needs of the seniors and so on first - regardless of race.You don't go gallivanting on your hobbyhorse. Or harp on race and religion and wake up and wonder why there is disunity.
His final years should not be wasted on partisan politics and becoming the most hated man in the country as once before.
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