Thursday, March 6, 2008

Why you should not vote for Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar

His name is Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar@KJ . Khairy was born in Kuwait City, Kuwait. He is the only son of former diplomat Dato' Jamaluddin Abu Bakar and Dato' Rahmah Abdul Hamid. Khairy had his secondary education at the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore, and his university education at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. While at Oxford, he studied at St Hugh's College, and graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). KJ received his Masters in Legal and Political Theory from University College London in September 1998 and holds a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St Hugh College, Oxford University.

Among Indians he become very hatered because citing against the former the keris-wielding episodes and against the latter his berating of the Indian news vendors when the Umno presidential address of Prime Minister and Umno President, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was not carried in the press the next day as Umno general assembly fell on Deepavali, with the next day an annual press holiday.He also has produldy says that ‘I can do these things because I get protection from my father-in-law’. Nobody should ever say that. Do the right thing - you don’t ask for protection from your father-in-law.

In September 2005, Khairy challenged Parliamentary Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang to a debate in Parliament. However, Lim told him not to ask any Member of Parliament (MP) to debate unless he himself became an MP. Khairy later argued that he had meant to ask Lim to debate the matter in Parliament, and did not challenge him to a debate.

Around late 2005, he was involved in controversial merger between ECM Libra Capital Bhd and government-linked Avenue Capital Resources Bhd, which resulted in the creation of ECM Libra Avenue Bhd. In December 2005, he was granted a loan by some of the shareholders of ECM Libra Avenue Bhd. to purchase one percent of the firm's share at 71 sen per share. A public audit committee chaired by parliamentarian Shahrir Abdul Samad was later set up to investigate allegation of wrongdoing done during the merger. The committee on August 10 concluded that the merger was done according to procedure. On August 11, Shahrir Abdul Samad said "In principle, this can be a conflict of interest. In this case, maybe, it is a question of approval from the minister because it was probably not referred to the Cabinet." On August 12, 2006, Khairy Jamaluddin sold his entire holding of the company at 65 sen per share.

Within a very short period, Khairy created further controversies by claiming that the Chinese Communities in Malaysia will take advantage of the Malays if UMNO is weak. This created anger and outburst not only amongst the Barisan Nasional component party such as MCA and Gerakan, but also amongst senior members of UMNO. Many viewed this speech as being confrontational in tone. In Penang, the Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon was criticised for the low income of the tsunami-prone Malay villagers in Balik Pulau.
The Prime Minister defended Khairy, saying that the media misquoted him. Khairy refused to apologise, stating that his remarks are genuine and important to defend Islam and the Malay rights. This led Jeff Ooi and Oon Yeoh, two prominent Bloggers in Malaysia to label Khairy as the new Malay-Ultra.
While there was a strong reaction to his rabble-rousing remarks, many political analysts such as Raja Petra Kamarudin believed that Khairy was trying to distract public attention from the ECM-Libra scandal where he was alleged to have siphoned up to 9.2 million via his proxies. Dato' Seri Lim Keng Yaik, the outgoing President of Gerakan called Khairy a low standard politician who is in rush to climb the political ladder. Nik Aziz Nik Mat of PAS called the current controversy part of a strategy by UMNO to create a state of fear amongst the Malays so they would continue to support UMNO despite the corruption allegedly rampant in Abdullah Badawi's administration.

Khairy later insisted that he was not an extremist, and decried racial extremism. In an address to the People’s Progressive Party Youth wing convention at the Putra World Trade Centre on 16 December 2006, Khairy said:

That is why Umno Youth will come down hard on those who breach the limits and ignore the boundaries of the law and racial sensitivities.


NEGERI SEMBILAN: P131 - Rembau Voters: 62,896

Malay: 68.9%, Chinese: 15.2%, Indian: 15.8%, Others: 0.1%


Source: THE KHAIRY CHRONICLES , WIKIPEDIA

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