SAKMONGKOL AK47
Last
year, every big idea thrown up by the UMNO president, were rejected by
UMNO delegates. When he spoke about 1 Malaysia, delegates insisted on
Malay first, Malaysia second. The deputy UMNO president was even
forthright in affirming that line of thinking, which is more in common
with the UMNO ground. Even as UMNO members deny it, there is worrisome
disconnect between the UMNO president and the rest of his team. When he
spoke about his nebulous New Economic Model, delegates spoke about more NEP like policies.
This year what has
UMNO got? It didn’t encourage delegates speaking about economic
achievements. No talk on vision, policies and so forth. No one debates
about how Shahrizat got the RM 250 million. No one spoke about the ETP,
EPP, GTP and whatever labels the UMNO president gave to his string of
initiatives. None. The UMNO president pleads for continued mandate from
the people as the Malay Agenda has not finished. No one spoke or
elaborated about the agenda.