Pakatan has forgotten you, PM’s aide tells Chinese

Melati A. Jalil Melati A. Jalil Updated 6 years ago · Published on 10 Dec 2017 11:00AM · 7 Comments

The opposition assumes that the Chinese votes are already locked up, says the prime minister’s special officer at a forum held last Friday. – EPA pic, December 10, 2017.

PAKATAN Harapan’s leadership line-up of Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail shows the opposition is taking the Chinese vote for granted, an aide to the prime minister told Chinese leaders at a closed-door forum.

Special officer to the prime minister Isham Jalil asked why PH picked both as the coalition’s interim prime minister and deputy prime minister when DAP was the dominant party.

“Who is the dominant party in Pakatan? It’s DAP. Which community voted for Pakatan previously? It’s the Chinese. So why did they name Dr Mahathir? 

“Do they care about Chinese voters? They just want to attract Malay voters, Pakatan already forgot about you.

“They are thinking that the Chinese votes are already locked up. The Chinese votes, especially in Selangor, are easy, already locked,” Isham told the forum held last Friday.

Isham’s speech was in two short videos of the closed-door session which were sighted by The Malaysian Insight.

The session with Isham, it is learnt, was a collaboration with Barisan Nasional component party, Gerakan’s candidate for Bukit Lanjan, Syed Abdul Razak Alsagoff. 

The session with polling district (PDM) leaders of the Bukit Lanjan state constituency was held at Selangor Gerakan headquarters in Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya.

Gerakan vice-president Dr Dominic Lau confirmed that the speaker at the closed-door session was the special officer to the Prime Minister Najib Razak, whom he identified as Isham Jalil.

Isham also said it was Dr Mahathir who was pulling the strings in PH, despite assertions earlier by several BN leaders that DAP was the puppet master in the opposition coalition. 

Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak previously said the past actions of DAP veteran leader Lim Kit Siang showed that the party was the de facto leader in the opposition.

Given the majority seats that DAP had compared with others in the opposition pact, Salleh said, the party dictated what happened in PH, adding that the so-called partnership with Bersatu was merely to give PH a Malay face. 

This, however, was dismissed by Isham at the forum.

“Now let me ask you something, do you think you can ask Dr Mahathir to become your puppet? He is the puppet master, how can you ask the puppet master to become your puppet? Does it make sense?

“He was the prime minister for 22 years. He used people… you want to put him as your proxy, he will use you for his interest,” Isham added. – December 10, 2017.

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  • Who had forgotten who? Ask yourself truthfully.

    Posted 6 years ago by Sam Ng · Reply

  • Thank you, the Chinese are useful and can he used to the effect of changing the government to one that we all yearn for, certainly not the UMNO led BN anymire.

    Posted 6 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • ISHAM JALIL WHO ARE THE STUPID CHINESE LEADERS FROM MCA AND GERAKAN ATTENDED YOUR MEETING BEC YOU ARE ONLY AID TO P.M. AND NOTHING MORE.? THIS TYPE OF CLOSE DOOR WILL NOT SUCCEED ANY MORE. THE COMMUNITY( MALAYS CHINESE, INDIAN DLL LAGI) IS NOT STUPID. THE PRICE OF ESSENTIAL GOODS IS SKY ROCKING ......UMNO MINISTER TELLING IT...IS BECAUSE OF ACT OF ALLAH......BY THE SAME GOING GE 14 IS OPPOSITION DAY BECAUSE OF ACT OF ALLAH.

    Posted 6 years ago by Mohanarajan murugeson · Reply

  • UMNO is tripping over their lies consequently the constant contradictions among the UMNO leadership. Nothing new here.

    Posted 6 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • I love it. Umno's fear has now propagated and manifested to the lower rung in their unintelligent suggestions and comments. When any dudes of Ali, Ahmad and Bakar in Umno party start their dud message it is a grim symptoms of wide decadence in the party. Carry on pleaase !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted 6 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • This statement is racist. It assumes the only interest the Chinese have is their own, not for the general nation, for all. For the Chinese, Pakatan agenda for the entire nation is their interest.

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • Haiyo, does not matter if pakatan forgot about Chinese...chinese will always support pakatan. Barisan should give up chinese already, ge13 saw 90% chinese support pakatan, but still lose. Ge14 if 100% chinse support pakatan still kalah punya...apa la barisan ni

    Posted 6 years ago by Kutty Kura · Reply