You Give - I Take. My Vote - No Way

"Thanks" (but no thank) to (pardon me) the demise of its late-MP, KT has now become the centre of attraction and attention. Everybody is becoming so nice and friendly, as if these KT folks are their long-lost brothers and sisters. They are being showered with praises, gifts, "angpows", projects and dinners that they didn't ask for, when all these whiles nobody bothers about them. Suddenly they become the stars. The DAP, PAS and PKR. UMNO, MCA, Gerakan and MIC. And the Barisan Rakyat bloggers too.

P36 (KT) has become the do-or-die mission to PAS and UMNO, as if it holds the keys to the future of Malaysian politics. To win the P36 means everything to them.

PAS, in idealogy and in practice, differs a great deal from UMNO. Knowing that UMNO, as always, is tainted with money politics and corrupt practices, PAS cleverly put a "clean" candidate to counter Umno's "bad" choice of candidate. Backed by DAP and PKR, PAS managed to allay the fear that the Chinese initially had - no thanks to the hudud issue.

Sensing that PAS's campaign was gaining grounds, Umno's so-called first-class strategists swung into action. But alas, their strategy was pretty standard, which have been replayed many many times whenever there was an election. Promises of infrastructural developments, projects and projects everywhere were made. But PAS made further inroads, this time among the Chinese, who are viewed as the deciding votes - given that the Malays are quite evenly-split for Umno and PAS.

P36 is a do-or-die mission for the PM-in-waiting too. Failure to retain P36 is a rejection of his future leadership. He must go all out to retain P36, otherwise ....................

To retains P36, KT folks are in for lots of goodies, which they might not have dreamt for. But as Tok Guru Datuk Nik Aziz put, "beri salah (dosa), tak beri kalah, jadi Umno-BN duduk dalam serba salah”. Give - sinful; don't give - lose. But who cares, Tok Guru. Do you think Najib cares?

In times of intense desperation, Najib and Co, out of the blues, become so creative (and generous) and are prepared to do the most unthinkable acts. The RM8 million alloted to 20 religious schools, RM3.3 million for construction of a new community hall, RM2.8 million for furbishing a completed hall in a Chinese school, RM3 million for 10 Chinese schools and RM2.7 million cash distribution to 9,000 Chinese for the coming Chinese New Year are nothing. They raise eye-brows, no doubt.

But the grandest actor of all is none other than Najib himself, who stoop so low, out of total desperation, to buy over 583 contractors in a "fully-computerised lucky draw" where each of them was automatically "awarded" a contract for infrastructural project - without bidding and pre-qualifications.

Whao, what a novel idea. Maybe Najib should patent this invention.

So, KT folks, you are very lucky. Lots and lots of goodies are thrown to you. Take them - all of them. They belong to you anyway. The money forked out are not from Umno's coffers. They belong to the people of Terengganu. They suck it out from the oil royalty which should be returned to the rightful owner - without interest.

As to who is to vote - it's your choice.

However, I'm sure you too don't feel easy having a Menteri Besar who act like a gangster, do you? A MB who threatened, "You baik sama saya, saya baik sama you. You tak baik sama saya, saya sepuluh kali tak baik sama you".

I'm sure you do not want a Prime Minister (a future PM) who is synonymous with "giving out goodies" and "vote buying", do you? I'm sure you want the Prime Minister must be clean, sincere, warmth, no baggages etc, don't you?

I'm sure you do not want to be intimadated by someone saying, "If the BN candidate doesn't win, Terengganu would not have an MP in Parliament". It's in fact, a threat.

I'm sure you do not want one with a sinister smile, questionalble character, doubtful integrity like this to be your Prime Minister, do you?

I'm sure you do not want a rep who is not so approachable, not friendly, a bit arrogant, do you? As an elected rep, he should be friendly to all the electorates; can be stopped at anywhere if you have a problem or issue to raise; can sit down with you in a kedai kopi by the roadside; whose house has no security guard nor electric iron gates; and who respects normal voters like us - as without us, he's really nobody.

I'm sure you do not want leaders who siphoned out "your money" and later returned them to you, the rightful owner, and call it "Ini wang ehsan dari Kerajaan Pusat". Some say your oil money is RM4 billion per year. Do you know how much is 1 billion? BTW, how much did they give back to Terengganu?

So, be forewarned KT folks. They give - you take. Your vote - no way.

PS: Folks in whichever constituency you are in, if you too want to be lucky as the KT folks, pray hard, pray hard that your rep resigns, becomes incapacitated or even..............to force a by-election. KT folks can vouch for this. Ha......ha............