Election Campaign Gone Bad!

The election is on the 8th of March, it's just around the corner. Many candidates held talks at differnet venues to woo people to vote for them. This is where promises are made but most of them are not fulfilled. People are fed with hope and vision for abetter future but in the end, all of them are left dissapointed because none of the promises made before the election was followed through.

I was browsing the net and came across the article wrote by Raja Petra Kamarudin. He was witty on the first few paragraphs of his article and definitely got into the real deal in the end. Let me share a little of his joke

'There is a very old joke that once made its rounds around the time the D.P. Vijendran sex videotapes first exploded onto the scene. The joke went as follows:

Samy Vellu, S. Subramanian and Vijendran decided to have a boys' night out, complete with women and everything thrown in. They checked into the presidential suit of a five-star hotel and after dinner each adjourned to one of the attached bedrooms with the women they had 'booked' for the night. After the fun and games, when the women had gone home, they sat down for a nightcap and compared notes.

“How was your woman?” Subramaniam asked Samy.
“Not very good lah. My wife is better......How was yours?”
“Mine also not that good,” replied Subramaniam. “My wife is also better......And what about yours Vije?”
“Mine also not that exciting. But you are both right, your wives are certainly much better.”

Of course, this is just one of the countless off-colour jokes about those who walk in the corridors of power, in particular involving the MIC. If we compiled all the jokes ever told about Malaysian politicians, we would be able to publish a book, maybe in many volumes.'

Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK)

If there's such book were publish, i'm sure i'll be the first one buying it, haha! There's another joke mentioned by RPK, if you really want to read it. Just click on this link. I'm sure it will amuse you. the jokes he shared actually leads to the message that he really want to put it out there, which is to give a clearer picture to the Malaysian Indian on which party to vote. I wouldn't want to elaborate further(shh...i don't want to get into trouble with the ISA). But i will share a few excerpt that really hits me in the head, as we are not really aware that this is actually happening out there.

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It all started when the campaign advertisment quote with red block letter 'IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR MIC THEN BE PREPARED TO PAY THE PRICE.....' it really sounds like a blackmail to me. This is why RPK urged the Malaysian Indians to listen to what he have to say

'It is time the Indians reclaim their dignity. It is time the Indians no longer allow themselves to be taken for granted. It is time the Indians realise that they need not succumb to threats and blackmail and that the Malays and Chinese will stand by them and defend them if they stand up for their rights.' By RPK

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After reading this incident reported by RPK, i was very shock. I'm sure nobody knows about this. It's really an eye opener for me. This is my first year to be a part of the election, and it's really sad you have to find out certain things this way. The excerpt

'I remember 20 years ago when the Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry met Samy Vellu at the height of the mid-1980s recession. I was then a central committee member and we lamented about the lack of contracts and how many Malay businessmen were facing bankruptcy. Samy Vellu replied that he is already doing as much as he could by dishing out contracts to Malay companies.

“I am not a Minister for the Indian community,” replied Samy Vellu. “I am a minister for the Malays. I look after the Malays more than I look after the Indians. It is the Malays who vote me into office. Without the Malay votes I would not be in power. So I care more for the Malays than the Indians. What more do you want me to do?”

Samy Vellu uttered this most surprising declaration 20 years ago in front of more than 1,000 Malay businessmen. Ahmad Sebi Abu Bakar, then the CEO of TV3, agreed with what Samy Vellu said.

“We put him in JKR so that he can privatise all the projects to Umno. If we put a Malay as a Minister it would be very sensitive. With an Indian as a Minister the non-Malays cannot say anything.”' By RPK

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Sigh, enough said read the whole article for yourself.