Yoursay: With Umno-PAS union, MIC, MCA may have to join Harapan

YOURSAY | Reflect honestly on what you have achieved for the last 60 years with a now wholly discredited BN.’

Story: ‘With Umno more interested in PAS, where does it leave MIC, MCA?’

Anonymous_3f4b: The question is not what MCA or MIC will do but what will happen to the Chinese and Indians who gave their wholehearted and undivided support to Pakatan Harapan.

With Bersatu, PKR and Amanah failing to capture the Malay majority votes, it will be Umno and PAS that will form the government without the non-Malay votes. This Malay-centric government will veer towards right-wing racial policies and religion, abandoning the Chinese and Indians in the process.

This is the price the Chinese and the Indians will pay for giving their votes to Harapan with an ineffective Malay coalition. By supporting Harapan, they have forced Umno to work closely with PAS to avoid political defeat.

MCA and MIC have lost their lustre with the Chinese and Indians and will be no more in the political equation once this happens.

The knife cuts both ways and the age-old working cooperation with the moderate and secular Umno will be a thing of the past, with the country descending into a mono-racial religious government - leaving the minority Chinese and Indians in the opposition.

Jackay Way: You blame the non-Malays for voting for Harapan when you forget that it's the non-Malays who voted and saved BN in many previous general elections. Then Umno turned arrogant, corrupt and racist.

Yes, there is a possibility that the Umno-PAS coalition will win in the next general election and there will not be non-Malays in the next government, but does it matter to us?

After all, the few non-Malays appointed to the BN cabinet is for wayang kulit purposes. It is just for the Malays to tell the world that you all are moderate people when in reality the majority of you are not.

Cogito Ergo Sum: Under Harapan, Indian cabinet members are disproportionately higher than the number of Indians in the country.

In BN, there was only one full minister. MIC should stop grovelling and disband itself and throw its support behind Harapan. Never will MIC have a cabinet minister. Be pragmatic and join Harapan.

Quo Vadis: MCA and MIC, it’s time to get out of BN, throw in your lot with Harapan and see for yourself the result.

Reflect honestly on what you have achieved for the last 60 years with a now wholly discredited BN.

Cocomomo: Yes, in the interest of Chinese and Indian Malaysians, right-thinking MCA and MIC leaders should seriously consider dissolving and combining with PKR or DAP. So too should Gerakan and other non-Malay-based parties.

Right-thinking Umno and PAS members should also consider joining one of Harapan component parties.

The reconstituted Harapan should strongly oppose the hypocritical, racist and religiously bigoted Umno-PAS in the interest of a united Malaysia.

Not Convinced: When BN was in power, Umno vote share was at best around 36 percent. Back then no one pointed out that BN did not have majority support of Malays.

So, why should it matter now?

Ronnie Liu warns Harapan not to ‘out-Malay’ Umno, PAS

Baba Quay: DAP leader Ronnie Liu hit the nail on the head. The last time Umno (under the current prime minister then) tried to out-Islamise PAS in the 1990s, it boomeranged, the effects of which are still being felt today.

So, let's not go into panic mode for the moment. it is still early days. Umno and PAS are desperate; they are meeting their comeuppance now. It's only a matter of time before they collapse.

Abasir: Will Malaysiakini do all Malaysians a favour by publishing, after some incisive and credible interviews and in-depth research, exactly what in the world is the bumiputera agenda which every third-rate Malay politician and his grand-uncle likes to crow about periodically?

Has this bumi agenda ever been revealed? Is it any different from what Najib Abdul Razak and his gang of merry men have been doing to become multi-billionaires in their own right?

Has Umno ever published it anywhere or is it something mythical like that "social contract" to which bankrupt Malay politicians like to make vague references to perpetuate their nonsense?

And if indeed there is a secret bumi agenda known only to a select few, is there, by default, also a non-bumi agenda somewhere?

Dont Just Talk: Ronnie Lui is right, don't forget the Chinese and Indian voters who gave 95 percent of their votes to Harapan.

By all means, help the deserving and poor Malays but there are also the poor Chinese and Indians who also deserved to be helped.

Iphonezours: Harapan, you cannot just be harping on racial and religious polemic. You were elected to make a change. Your change should involve helping all needy Malaysians regardless of racial background.

Those who go on thinking everything is based on race and religion, our country will continue to be left behind. We are already losing to our neighbours such as Vietnam and Indonesia which were once so far behind us.

You need to move forward with a different agenda; no point taking on BN based on race. When all Malaysians progress, race will never be an issue.

It's no point having well-to-do Malays or Chinese when the Indians and people of Sabah and Sarawak are still behind.

Kamikasi: Harapan has failed on many fronts. For starters, its communication strategy is a flop - it failed to highlight the achievements of Harapan.

Besides, there is no report card to show progress and no adequate preliminary information to explain issues. Many of the changes made caught people by surprise.

The mainstream media too failed to share relevant positive information to help the government of the day.

If BN comes back, it will abuse the government again without a care. If Harapan failed this time, there will be no tomorrows for its component parties.

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