Dr Mahathir thumbs nose at Najib's TN50

Low Han Shaun Low Han Shaun Updated 6 years ago · Published on 3 Jan 2018 12:02PM · 3 Comments

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad says Putrajaya's national transformation plan 2050 is admission that the Najib administration has failed to achieve the aspirations of Vision 2020. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, January 3, 2018.

DR Mahathir Mohamad today thumbed his nose at Putrajaya’s national transformation plan 2050 (TN50) saying it was admission that the Najib administration had failed to achieve Vision 2020 which the former prime minister had unveiled in 1991.
 
Dr Mahathir said TN50 copied Vision 2020 and it was Najib’s way of stalling for time.
 
“Najib’s TN50 is admission that they have failed to complete Vision 2020… and that 32 more years are needed (to achieve the aspirations of Vision 2020).

“The TN50 is a fair copy of Vision 2020,” said Dr Mahathir at the Perdana Leadership Foundation in Putrajaya today.

Vision 2020, the aspiration of Malaysia becoming a self-sufficient, industrialised nation by the year in the title, was introduced in 1991 by Dr Mahathir during the tabling of the Sixth Malaysia Plan

The all-encompassing plan charts the paths towards economic prosperity, social well-being, world-class education, political stability, and psycological balance, among others.

However, amid the 2007-2010 financial crisis, Najib announced in August 2009 that the vision needed to be redefined and recalibrated.

“They are trying to divert attention from Vision 2020 to TN50 (in 2050), when Najib knows he would no longer be the prime minister. That is why he made it TN50 (it is) only to be achieved 32 years later,” Dr Mahathir said today.

Najib, while tabling the 2017 budget in October, had claimed that TN50 was a ground-up approach to laying down policies that would be pursued until 2050.

But, Dr Mahathir said, Pakatan Harapan had a plan to realise Vision 2020.

“We have our ways to make Vision 2020 a success (but) maybe it will be a bit late because we have lost nearly nine years.”

The Pakatan Harapan chairman had previously said that the TN50 was planned “so far ahead” that most Malaysians “would be gone” by the time it was supposed to be realised.

“Those who created TN50 believe they don’t have to answer (to the people) if it were to fail,” he said in a live interview on Facebook. – January 3, 2018.
 

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  • Najib's partnership with Hadi's PAS whose visionary inspiration is collapsing Iran - makes TN50 meaningless. "What man is a man who does not make the world better place" - Hadi Awang for one..

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • It is a big con jib ( job ) by Najib. All those who are with him involving in the TN 50 are either in their preparation age to meet the makers or will cease to be breathing before the arrival of the TN50 particular years . They know that by such a long period of time Malaysia will have to somehow achive the status due to the sorrounding environment impact or by herself being re--colonised to attain that achievement. At such a aduration Thailand Indonesia , Vietnam , Cambodia, Phillipines and even Burma will be in the league of super developed countries in par with China and the western sphere. So with or without Umno , Malaysia destiny is already forcasted and have to undergo through the unbelievable absurd foundations laid by Naib to the path of back waters environment for now. All his cronies and cohorts will not be responsible or accountable in the failures as they are being spared by the long duration to allow them to demise off without remorse. Right now Najib who is the introducer of TN50, an atrocious far fetch program which is a ruse and a camouflaging actions to divert his failure in being incompetent and a total disapointment of despair in the delinquency of 2020. He should be held accountable in all his devious scams when GE 14 is over. Let him bear the full brunt of the Rakyat anger in being ridiculed and taken for a ride in his catastrophic tenure of two nonsensical terms. It is up to you now Madhatir how you want the Rakyat to remember you.

    Posted 6 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • Najib's programmes??? Let's start with the first one...1Malaysia,,,,have we moved a single step forward after all these years of charade?

    Posted 6 years ago by Koj J · Reply