It’s a massive and hard earned
victory for BN. This is a new beginning of politics in Malaysia. Prime Minister
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has a huge responsibility. There are enormous
expectations from people the direction of our PM to lead our country to new and
progressive direction.
His leadership style is very
similar to his late father, Tun Abdul Razak. He is accommodative and given
consensus to various parties to work together with him to achieve the national
interests.
The transformation which is taken
place in our country now is very much similar to United Kingdom (UK) during
Tony Blair era. At the time in UK, the Conservative Party had turmoil and the
country was in disarray. Tony Blair who took over the leadership of Labour
Party came up with slogan, New Labour that had appealed to younger generation
with the policies which had elevated their aspirations. This became
instrumental for the Labour Party to gain huge majority in the election to lead
the nation. Further Prime Minister Tony Blair was reelected with sound victory
again.
Meanwhile in across the Atlantic
Ocean, the people of United States of America need a fresh breeze because they
so disoriented with war on terror. Therefore they elected and reelected again President
Barack Obama because he gave them a new hope.
The fresh mandate given by
Malaysians to Prime Minister Najib has indicated the new hope. In last four
years the way he turned around our country had thrilled the people. With his
transformation plans the country is moving to the veracious and enlightened
direction. But he has had his antagonists within and outside his party.
He needs to emulate like his
father. That’s a very pleasant task where Prime Minister Najib will execute it
very easily.
Even though his primary goals
will be within Malaysia but he has to grasp beyond the existing parameters.
His father can be his best role
model. Tun Razak is best remembered as among the first person who had extended
diplomatic relationship with China at the pinnacle of cold war. During Tun
Razak tenure, Malaysia is well respected regionally and internationally.
Our Prime Minster has all means
to achieve this. Lately we have seen very shallow foreign policies which have
not given a clear direction of our position as a prominent nation regionally
and globally.
Another biggest task of his by
taking reasonable steps to remove the ‘old school of thought’ practitioners
within his party and coalition to gain
substantial mandate to implement his transformation policies for the benefit of
this country. Our Prime Minister has all the potential to become a great
statesman if he can successfully eliminate his distractors within.
Apart from that, for good
governance of the country ones need to have good advisors and strategists. This
people must be brave, blunt, unbiased, intelligent, clear conscience and most
importantly be independent like Mr Hoover and Mr Kissinger in USA, when they
wanted to advice Prime Minster. This will allow our PM to access and analyze the
information which is given to him for the betterment of our country. He cannot
allowed this self-headed people who wanted to please him by giving the
information that he wanted to hear and hidden the true situation of what people
expected from him.
He is the leader of our nation
now. We as the people of this country must be reconciled as what he had
requested us to do by putting aside our differences for future of this nation.
I can observe there is a New Hope
where our Prime Minister is going leads this pronounced nation for its
prominence in near future.
Kuala Lumpur.
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