Is UMNO defunct ?

7.12.2015.

As a party member since 1987, with 10 continuous years as a delegate to the annual General Assembly from 1987 to 1997, four-and-a-half years as a State Legislator from 1995 to 1999, and currently a Central Committee member of the UMNO Veterans Club, a State Committee member of the Ex Wakil Rakyat Society (MUBARAK), as well as an incumbent UMNO Branch Committee member, I have every right to a say in the shenanigans going on in UMNO right now, even as it's preparing for the 2015 Annual General Assembly this week. 

The Party controls the government. Not the other way round.

Muhyiddin is the no. 2 man in UMNO. He was elected by party members, not appointed by the President, like the loud General Secretary, Ku Nan. To deny Muhyiddin the right to speak in the Party's Annual General Assembly is simply wrong. If members allow this to happen, they deserve the destruction that's befalling the party. 

It was the PM's right, even if it was not right, to remove Muhyiddin, unceremoniously, from  the DPM's office. That was administrative. But to do that in the Party's affairs is flawed. 

Even as the discerning rakyat debate on the cheapness of the DPM's sacking, this constitutional manipulation demands immediate correction. Or face the dire consequences. 

Najib, and all who back him for whatever motives, cannot discard the Party's constitution and traditions just like that. All are watching, not just the 3.5 million UMNO members. 

Even if attention is given to the 2,000 odd delegates gathering at the PWTC in the next few days, their response to this public display of personal revenge  on the part of the President will decide what happens to UMNO as a political power in the Malaysian political scene.  I say "even if" because notwithstanding the General Assembly, the grass-root members will have a mind of their own, and they had voted with their hearts in 2008. They can do it again.

The question is, is Najib so scared of Muhyiddin ?

I say that if this error is not corrected, UMNO is defunct. Mark that date "7.12.2015"

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