YOUR 1 VOTE (ONE VOTE) COUNTS

Malaysia has gone through 12 general elections and yet we had survived with absolute national resilience after more than 55 years since our independence. There a few challenging years as in 1963, 1969, 1998 and 2008 that had threatened our national unity, political and economic pitfalls created by the internal and external situations that had to be faced by the Barisan Nasional leadership and administration.

In the interest of the nation's progressive survival, your one vote counts in the 13th general election which is to held very soon when the current parliament dissolves on 28th April, 2013. This general election will be the "mother of all elections" led by the Najib's leadership that will shape the new Malaysia towards the year 2020. Today, we have seen the political antics from both sides of the political divide and it's our choice and decision which path the nation is heading forward in the next few decades. The result will be a positive signal to the nation to progress or degrade.

"A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice will be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability." (WILLIAM FEATHER)

We should admit that the nation had been subject to a certain degree of political uncertainty since end of 1998 when Anwar Ibrahim was ousted as the Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister as well as UMNO Deputy President. As a result of this inevitable and unpopular decision by the former prime minister Mahathir to sack Anwar from all his political and government positions, the opposition had gathered strength at the expense of Anwar's political downfall as the imminent successor to Tun Mahathir as the PM designate. In the 2004 general election, Tun Abdullah led BN to an astonishing victory with a huge majority. However, it was a real test for Pak Lah's leadership and governance and subsequently in the 2008 general election, we won by a slim majority but lost control of the five states; Selangor, Perak, Kedah, Penang as well as failed to recapture Kelantan from PAS. The rest is history that will trickle the political scale of the next government in the coming 13th general election.

In my simple mind as a grass root politician for the last few decades, I envisaged that the opposition will always raise their fingers to condemn the good or bad governance of the BN administration under Najib's leadership since he took over the government from April 2009. The present government under Najib had performed very well in terms of economic and social developments in so many sectors of the government and private entities, that one should not deny based on our narrow political perception. We should look beyond the political scenario and appreciate what the BN government had put in placed the various commitments under the various Government Transformation Programs (GTP) that will formed the basis of our choice in giving a new mandate to the next government in power.

It is not about convincing election manifestos but the commitments and deliverable are very important to this nation towards our developed status in the year 2020. Both sides of the political divide should reduce the politics of empty promises and perception in order to move this country forward. The opposition states had proven that they are not capable of administrating their states with dynamism and with innovations, etc. If they could not deliver their promises and commitments, how could we trust them in managing the federal government and the nation?

To all my fellow Malaysians, your one vote will make the change and difference for Malaysia. The choice is absolutely yours in the wake of continuity to move this nation forward to better times ahead.

The Power of 1Malaysia's National Agenda

The 1Malaysia concept was the brainchild of Najib Tun Razak not long after he assumed the office of our 6th prime minister in March 2003. Prior to Najib's public announcement of 1Malaysia, we have never heard anyone, including Anwar and his cronies who had uttered the powerful term "1Malaysia or Satu Malaysia" and yet they claimed that it was copied from Israel or so and so around the world. What an act of sabotage and the act of absolute disloyalty to the nation and country! Shame on you Anwar as you should be a gentlemen more so as the parliamentary opposition leader to support the concept, rather than to condemn what is good for the people, nation and country. Even the United Nations had previously commented that "1Malaysia is a powerful innovative concept of the BN government under prime minister Najib Tun Razak."

As the nation is seeking a new mandate of governance, the coming 13th general election in Malaysia, will be the mother of all previous general elections. The government through SPR or the Election Commission have bowed to the pressure of the opposition by changing some of the important election processes in the interest of transparency without take side to BN or the opposition. However, the opposition is still not happy as more than 80% of what they had demanded had been incorporated into the election processes and to be tested in the coming 13th general election. What else does the opposition want in order to topple this BN government elected by the people in every five years since the nation's independence from 1957? 

Malaysia does not belong to the few opposition leaders and Najib does not only belong to the Malays, but to all Malaysians, who should be given the equal right in this country. The Malays could no longer survive on the generosity of the government or they will always failed in their national goals and achievements as fellow Malaysians. Just like the Chinese and the Mamak (Malay and Indian concoction) generations who came to Malaya in rags and absolute penniless to this country but subsequently assumed economic and financial power in exchange for political power as agreed by our fore founders of Malaysia.

In the last 12th general election of 2008, the opposition swept 5 states but conceited Perak to BN after their one year of rule in office. The state of Kelantan under PAS rule for more than 22 years of governance is still poor and lacking in infrastructure development. This alone had proven that PAS the opposition in the state is not capable to manage the poorest state in Malaysia. The current situation on Selangor and Kedah is still not too encouraging under PKT and PAS respectively. However Penang under DAP had made some in road development but still relied on BN Federal government's intervention and national financial assistance to the people. DAP should not brag and claim that they had brought in foreign investments. MIDA has all the facts and figures to prove that it was BN's hard work that had attracted foreign investments into the island state of Penang and not through the effort of Lim Guan Eng and DAP.

My prediction in the results of the coming 13th general election is that BN will be up surge and will win with higher majority than in the 2008 general election. God willing, BN may even recapture Selangor and Kedah and will give a good fight in Kelantan or may even ready to form a coalition government for the East Coast State. There will not be a hung government, either way in parliament or state assembly. What we see on the internet and social websites are all totally false information and lies by the opposition and their allies in order to overthrow the current BN by equating our country to that of what had happened during the "Arab Spring." We are not the flip flop Arabs but Malaysians that love and care for the well being of this country. I wish to advise the opposition to be more responsible and do not threaten our national security due to their greed for power.