Almost thirty years ago, Dr
Mahathir had a dream to make Malaysia as a developed nation by 2020.
He named that dream as Vision
2020. Now, we are at the end road about 2020.
What, we as the people of this
nation had achieved?
What are our contributions to
make this country great?
Regrettably, we always blamed
others especially, our leaders for any shortcomings.
Then, who actually supported and
elected these devious leaders??
We as the citizen and voters of
this country, always elected leaders who are corrupted and misuse their powers.
Should we have blamed these
leaders or ourselves for the failure of this nation?
A few days ago in Penang, a
family of three young kids stayed in a car for eight months. When the media
highlighted this family’s deplorable state then only steps had been taken to
remedy the situation.
Further, we have seen recently
that our graduates are working as garbage collectors in our neighbouring
country. There is nothing wrong working in that sector during Covid-19 pandemic
but the biggest question is why they are unable to get a proper job in
Malaysia?
Even though, Malaysia has gained
independence from United Kingdom more than sixty years ago, our leaders are
still indulged with race and religion as the main themes to colonise our minds.
Certain quarters from us still bait these issues without realising the real
agenda these unscrupulous politicians.
We used to have great leaders
like Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Dr Ismail, Tun Ghazali Shafie and Tok Guru Nik Aziz
who always fight for the rights of us. Unfortunately, now our leaders are more interested
to gain popularity for the wrong set of reasons.
This country doesn't only belong to
leaders alone, but it’s also to us as the ordinary folks of this nation. In
case these leaders are fizzled to fulfill their obligations at that point it is
our obligation to let them know what are these obligations.
By observing the current
situation, we profoundly suspicious that the current crops of leaders had
failed in their fundamental duties as the peoples' representatives.
The unemployment rate in Malaysia
rose to 4.7 per cent in July 2020, according to tradingeconomics.com. From a
year ago, the number of unemployed grew 42 percent. In addition, the Department
of Statistics of Malaysia reports that the number of unemployed people in this
country has risen by 47,300 to 826,100 people. This number, in 27 years, is the
highest. The recent Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) study showed that this
year, many households in Malaysia are very vulnerable to falling into poverty.
Further, the National Housing
Department (JPN) data reported that more than 65 percent of national household
leaders earn below RM2,000. They live in People's Housing Projects (PPRs). They
are considered to be the urban poor.
These statistics indicate that
many people have lost their jobs especially from the B40 group, and now the
question is how these families with the young children can survive and what
kind of the support that they can seek from the current administration for
their survival.
Presently, Malaysia is facing
with the vacuum of good leaders. Leaders are elected to serve people not
otherwise. They are people’s representatives. We, Malaysians still fondly
remember the contribution made by our founding fathers to this nation. They
sacrificed themselves for the betterment of this country. They live their life
for this nation.
Unfortunately, we hardly ever
find such a form of stature leader with such a current cluster of leaders. The
aim of both state and national elections is to elect good and capable
representatives. These leaders were expected to selflessly serve this nation
and its people.
In a nutshell, we have waited
long enough for the advent of these forms of leaders. As the people of this
country, we have to play our part meritoriously in the coming election to
recognise and elect noble leaders who will be our voices in Parliament. Such
leaders' primary duty is to take care of our welfare and not theirs at all.
As a precursor for us to observe
how the British people are compelling their politicians, i.e. leaders, to toe
the line with their wishes, the Brexit Saga in the United Kingdom, even if they
have to replace three prime ministers in the course of it
The leaders must respond to the
needs of the electorate in a democratic country, not otherwise.
Kuala Lumpur.
30.12.2020.
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