NEP has made the headlight for these past few days. Beginning from the statement from the Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng that he would run the state administration free of the New Economic Policy (NEP).
I am truly uncertain about NEP. As I could recall from my past understanding on NEP, NEP has quote nothing on race. It is a policy for rakyat...especially to assist the poor. So if we are to do without NEP, then why are there racial sentiment in it? Is that really such a thing where this policy is custom made for our Malay friends?...if it is not then why do we have this headline "Lawyer lodge report against Penang CM"
“I would like to ask the DAP which community has been made poorer because of the NEP.” said our PM. So I believe with this, obviously if our CM is to run Penang free from NEP, it is not an issue too...for nothing racial and personal here.
Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has said "The election results signal the beginning of the possible demise of the New Economic Policy (NEP) and special rights for the Malays ....The Malays are saying ‘you can’t scare us by talking about us losing our rights, because we are here on our own merit’.” Nazri said it looked like some Malays felt that the NEP was unfair, and questioned why special rights should be given to the Malays.
So if that is what some of our Malay friends felt like. Then what wrong that Guan Eng has committed to be put up against of? And out of all, I could not understand our UMNO Penang's stand. Our PM has given assurance to Penangites that he will continue to support Penang where else UMNO Penang has made such a stand, "Call to scrap mega project".
I have all my full support and faith to our state government and central government. I believe in Badawi's leadership and Guan Eng's leadership!
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