Gerakan seeks BN censure of Umno MP. Will they get it?

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Gerakan is asking the Barisan Nasional leadership to punish an Umno MP over a perceived insult made in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday.

Gerakan's Simpang Renggam MP Liang Teck Meng told the press today that he had file a complaint to deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin about Kalabakan Umno MP Abdul Ghapur Salleh’s remarks regarding Gerakan’s attempt to have a presence in Sabah.

Abdul Ghapur had earlier openly mentioned, “Gerakan has had its roots pulled out of the peninsula. And now it wants to settle in Sabah. The Chinese in Sabah say, ‘If the peninsular rejects Gerakan, then why does BN want to give that stupid Chinese man a chance to put candidates in Sabah?’”

The Umno MP was referring to Gerakan President Koh Tsu Koon and the party’s poor showing in the 2008 election.

First of all, with Umno's strong dominance and the so-called "ketuanan" over the other parties within the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, will Gerakan be able to really censure the Umno MP effectively?

Even the Gerakan president Dr Koh Tsu Koon is so ineffective in getting things straight with several Umno leaders previously who had belittled the party repeatedly. So, do you really think the Umno deputy president will do it justly in getting all the party MPs to toe the BN's line?

We doubt that, even when local Umno leaders took down the photo of Dr Koh and have it tore to pieces, the Gerakan president cannot really do anything at all, and that local Umno leader who did that just escaped without any action being taken against him and that leaders is still an Umno branch chairman till today enjoying his status, benefits and contracts awarded by the federal government. This means even Dr Koh as a party president cannot even compete with an Umno branch chairman.

With this continuous intense bullying, Gerakan still prefers to stick with the BN coalition eventhough it has long realized that there is no more hope for the party to do so. Is Gerakan serving only one man, that is Dr Koh as he is currently clinging to the senatorial position and the ministerial post in the prime minister's department.

Since last weekend, even in the Gerakan National Delegates Conference, the voices of discontent could be heard from all corners of the conference hall, and guess what did Dr Koh said? "I am willing to sacrifice myself for the party". What can he really sacrifice for the party and what kind of sacrifice is he willing to make "for the party's sake?"

At the end of the Gerakan's conference, most of the delegates were disappointed with their party president who had nothing concrete other that daydreaming. Well, we guess Liang should re-look into his political career with the party.

Gerakan's latest casualty was from Kedah where the party's state organizing secretary and Padang Serai division chairman Tang Hiang Lye had submitted his resignation citing incompetence on Dr Koh and his entire central committee.

Can Gerakan really stand up bravely to fight against Umno's "ketuanan" concept in the BN coalition? We leave it to Dr Koh to state his meaning of sacrifice soon.

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