An open letter to Tun Mahathir Part 2: Justify betrayal, please!
Dear Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad,
This is my second open letter to you within a fortnight.
It is not my favourite to write open letters but then when ordinary rakyat’s voice like mine are ignored by politicians hallucinating on power, we are left little choice but to use social media.
Upfront, I would like to say a big thank you for manoeuvring the entire country into a political mess in the past week.
You singlehandedly crucified our democratic rights by showing how narrow minded you can be when making decisions that impact the ordinary man.
Tun, you have lost the right to say that you feel betrayed by Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The biggest betrayal that will go down in history is yours towards the people who gave you the position as premier.
Your hasty decision to resign as the premier without collective discussion with the other parties in Pakatan Harapan is just unjustifiable and unacceptable by any degree.
These representatives of the people had passed the baton to you in 2018 collectively despite you having only a handful of seats in Parliament. How could you have taken a lone ranger step to then resign without consulting them?
I think you are quite brilliant still and I doubt you did not do your math right to know that your hasty resignation will have a tailspin effect on the political makeup and economy.
Tun, you have to take the sole responsibility to what we as a nation have come to. Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is in court for corruption charges and is labelled a thief by you. But how should your actions be classified today?
Tun, I will never defend any corrupt leader or even another human proven to such in a court of law. Likewise, a thief. But how do the people now get justice for having been robbed in broad daylight of their fundamental democratic rights enshrined in the Malaysian federal constitution?
Which court do we go to?
Tun, with all due respect to your age, I have to say that you clearly lacked the skills to make compromises and listen to outside views. Today, we see the cumulative boomerang.
It may be a little too late, though not impossible, that Muhyiddin may not hold office too long but should not you have called for dissolution of the Parliament last week before resigning?
The ball was in your court but you just kicked it wrong. I had in my earlier article and open letter suggested that you should let the public decide but alas.
As a voter myself, Tun….you make me feel betrayed and cheated. Not to say that I defend Muhyiddin but in as much as you thought that it was politically and morally right to be the 7th prime minister, it is his right too to take opportunity of you fielding wrong from day one.
Pakatan Harapan’s doom started the very moment you started accepting frogs leaping from Umno into Bersatu.
The entire “Game of Betrayal ” started then. Accepting them was wrong morally and on principles too. And yet you embraced them. How do you explain that?
Tun, you fumbled.
Narinder Pal Singh is a veteran political observer
