Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Higher expectation from BN

The Umno led Perak state government took the oath of duty today with a reduced number of Exco members. Only six were appointed today and the other "vacancies" are expected to be filled from amongst the three "independents" assemblymen once the tide is settle and two of them are cleared of corruption charges. These three froggie assemblymen are widely expected to officially join BN later.


As expected, the only Chinese assemblyman from MCA, Dr Mah Hang Soon was appointed as an Exco member but not as a senior Exco as DAP's Ngeh Koo Ham in the Pakatan Rakyat's state government.


The consolation is that Mah was assigned to be in charge of the non-Muslims affairs committee which was initially created by PR's state government. Previous BN Perak state government do not have this sort of committee to handle the non-Muslims affairs until the PR took over the state last year.


This may be an effort by the BN state government to win the hearts of the people who are against the taking over of the state government by BN without the mandate of the people. One of the bigger issue which BN need to face will be the conversion of land in new villages to perpertuity ownership as promised by PR.


BN will need to offer more than a committee if they intended to stay on course to win the next general election. Perakians expects the BN state government not only to maintain whatever promises and plans by the PR government but to deliver more goodies to the people to prove that they are better than PR. If it fails to do that, BN be better prepared to experience a greater nightmare in the next election if they do less than that.-Loka

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