The Malays know that a day will come when they will lose political power if they allow themselves to be divided in their loyalty to Umno.
CT Ali, FMT
Malays must first understand the responsibility that political power asks of them. It is not a matter of sharing political power with the non-Malays because political power will always stay with the Malays.
It is the responsible use of this power to determine how it is used to benefit not only the Malays but also the people of this nation.
It needs only for the Malays to understand that political power must be used to do good not evil.
If there is anything constant about Umno from the time it came into government it is this – Umno has never wavered from its promise that Ketuanan Melayu will prevail, that Islam shall be the religion of this nation and that the Sultans will reign in the state they are Sultans of.
Umno does not apologise for these principles that they live by it.
The Malays know that a day will come when they will lose political power if they allow themselves to be divided in their loyalty to Umno.
That day is about to come.
Umno has told its coalition partners in Barisan Nasional that a day will come when they too may lose the government if they allow themselves to be complacent in their duty of care to their own electorates.
That day is about to come.
Umno has always laid great stock on its ability to fall back on its rural votes because it understands that a day will also come when the rural votes will decide Umno’s success or failure at the polls.
That day too is about to come.
‘There must be change’
So what will save Umno, save the Malays, save Islam, save the Sultans and save its coalition partners from electoral defeat?
We all agree that there must be change but where we agree to disagree is what these changes should be.
The Malays have been second best in everything that is of any significance in our nation.
