No BN opponent will be spared Nazri’s sharp tongue

Gan Pei Ling Gan Pei Ling Updated 8 years ago · Published on 2 Mar 2018 7:01PM · 4 Comments

Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz says others have the right to criticise Barisan Nasional, and he has the right to get upset and fight back, at home in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, today. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, March 2, 2018.

TOURISM and Culture Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz said he would fight anyone, including icons like Robert Kuok and Dr Mahathir Mohamad, to defend the Barisan Nasional (BN) government.

“I’m a cabinet member, part of the government that he (Kuok allegedly) wants to bring down, and he’s funding my political enemy. Of course I’ll fight back,” said Nazri.

The Umno minister had called Kuok a “pondan” and dared the business tycoon to contest in the 14th general election following  allegations that Malaysia’s richest man is funding the DAP. The allegations originated on blog, Malaysia Today.

Nazri told The Malaysian Insight he did not understand why BN component parties MCA and Gerakan were still insisting that he apologise to Kuok.

“Why should I?” said a defiant Nazri, who is a Umno supreme council member and the Padang Rengas MP.

“Why is it that when I whack Dr Mahathir, 92 years old, why do they never say, you cannot say that, he is iconic? That shows Gerakan, MCA leaders are racists.

“When it is Mahathir they don’t make noise, when Mahathir is more iconic than Robert Kuok.

“I think they want to make it into a racial thing. I think this is a reflection that deep inside they are racists.”

Nazri reminded Gerakan and MCA that he had helped fight Indira Gandhi’s case in the cabinet, referring to the case of a Hindu mother who had spent years in the courts battling to overturn the unilateral conversion of her children to Islam by her ex-husband.

Nazri said he had read Kuok’s memoir containing the tycoon’s criticisms of the BN government.

“Of course he can comment, I also have the right to feel upset about what he wrote about the government; I have been a minister for 19 years now,” said Nazri.

Analysts said in a report by The Malaysian Insight that the BN lynchpin party’s attack on Kuok was a sign of panic as the general election loomed.

MCA Youth said in a statement on Wednesday that Nazri’s crude insults at Kuok and MCA secretary-general Ong Ka Chuan undermined the BN spirit. – March 2, 2018.

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  • Lim Guan Eng was spared.

    Posted 8 years ago by Leslie Chan · Reply

  • MCA , no matter how loud you bark at Nazri. MCA is finished. The coffin has been nailed, just waiting for burial. MCA- RIP.

    Posted 8 years ago by Jay Jay · Reply

  • That is not politics, that is cult. It's not loyalty its zealotry, usually hateful, damaging. Immoral.

    Posted 8 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • Nazri has a mouth but he really is not so bad action wise, even his corruption relatively speaking. What is really serious is Najib (and by default Nazri) is just wrong. The gvtdidnotgive the "key" to success to Kuok. Kuok was already successful before trading in sugar. That is why the govt chose him to build the sugar industry. Kuok still would be successful without the govt. What is really wrong both Najib and Nazri perpetuate a myth and dependency for their own political purpose. It's the issue with Felda. In truth the govt has given up all hope that Felda settlers can be independent, that is why they have taken over their land and piled them full of debt. If they believed the settlers could stand on their feet, they would have just replanted everything free . BNdo not want "transformation", they want dependency to keep themselves in power.

    Posted 8 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply