(Free Malaysia Today) - Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin piled the pressure on Anwar Ibrahim for an open debate on the economy by sending a formal invitation to the opposition leader today.
The invitation letter was submitted by the wing’s delegation this morning, led by national deputy secretary Megat Firdouz Megat Junid and information chief Reezal Merican.
The letter stated that Khairy wishes to debate Anwar specifically on “Methods to manage the nation’s economy”.
“We come in a respectful manner to send a formal invitation to Anwar to accept our invitation for a debate on the economy.
“I hope he accepts the invitation, which is good to widen democracy for the people,” Reezal told reporters after handing over the letter to the PKR headquarters here.
Debate space to explain 100-day reform
Khairy’s challenge came after Anwar dared Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to an intellectual duel following the premier’s sharp rebuke of Pakatan Rakyat’s 100-day reform pledges, which he said was “too good to be true and would bankrupt the nation”.
Najib dismissed the challenge as pointless and continued with his attack on the programme which includes paying an allowance of RM500 to all teachers, abolishing highway tolls and maintaining fuel subsidies.
The 100-day programme, apparently Pakatan’s election manifesto, was unveiled at its second national convention in Penang last month.
Anwar claimed the opposition would only need RM19 billion to finance the programme.
Khairy, however, argued that the programme is flawed and lacks concrete details on how it plans to attain the amount and finance the pledges should it wrest federal power.
Both Megat Firdouz and Reezal, who are also Umno Youth senior executive councillors, backed their chief’s arguments, contending that only a debate would give Anwar the perfect avenue to explain the programme better.
“We want to give voters the space and opportunity to evaluate the 100-day pledges,” said Megat Firdouz.
Khairy, debate Syamsul instead
Meanwhile, PKR Youth information chief Lee Khai Loon in an immediate response to the challenge attempted to deflect Khairy’s dare and turned the table on Najib instead.
written by Angela Ooi, January 14, 2011 07:30:36
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written by Bellboy263, January 14, 2011 01:55:37
What ? You must have a lot of time in your hands. DSAI is a very busy man at this moment in history.
Take a hint, what the people of Malaysia would like you to do with your wasted oxford time .You, that Saiful guy and your useless waiting for handout followers go find some Kerbaus in the fields and preach to them about economics and well being of our Malay states.
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written by Motherchell, January 14, 2011 00:37:27
When you were sitting tight in your mother's womb, Maha was busy playing with anal swabs in the course of his work. When you kicked your mother's tummy your cronies who handed the letter of invitation (who are educated by the"" World renown ""Malaysian Institutional leaking sewers) were feeding their buffaloes kangkong in the outback. Try to teach his holiness your father- in- law what old and new DNA is all about . He must be one hellava cell physiologist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So you want to teach us economics today??
We know what you did to win in Rembau---- we know what you did in public school---we also know what you did for UMNO's Bretton --woods and parks in your Oxfart!!!
For starters little punk , can you explain to us about Qaddafi's nuclear bleeding pile. Not forgetting your father-in law's Breitling wristed skullcapped crony's sudden Hadari holiness???? Now run along little punk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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written by No nonsense, January 13, 2011 23:20:43
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written by reeperbahn, January 13, 2011 22:37:16
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written by Aduh, January 13, 2011 21:39:39
Good try. But why should Anwar accept you when the person he insists to debate with is your scarecrow najis. You do not have the knowledge and brain to debate intelligently. But don't get us wrong. We are not suggesting najis has them. He is also another dungoo like you.
To us, you are an empty vessel, just like a medicine peddler on a five foot way who yack and yack non stop but without any sustance. Even your pemuda umNO can vouch that.
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written by my oumrie, January 13, 2011 19:51:58
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written by my oumrie, January 13, 2011 19:50:37
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written by arazak, January 13, 2011 19:37:55
Hello Khairy. . ., you ni "potong stim" only. We don't want to see you get hammered. . ., we want to see how your Taiko lawan lah, bodoh!
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written by malaysianohope, January 13, 2011 19:27:45
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written by lakian, January 13, 2011 18:37:24
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written by kksam, January 13, 2011 17:33:00
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written by cocomomo, January 13, 2011 16:26:50
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written by Merdeka, January 13, 2011 16:08:06
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written by whlau, January 13, 2011 15:48:20
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written by alpha1, January 13, 2011 14:29:12
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written by Aduh, January 13, 2011 14:06:12
It is either the scarecrow najis or forget about the debate. . If he chickens out, it PROVES he too is clueless on how to manage the nation's economy.
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written by FreeAsian, January 13, 2011 13:58:27
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written by bambooman, January 13, 2011 13:56:26
Just stay there and be a good boy ! ! ! ! ! .......dont make any noise ! !! ! !
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written by Voter get Voters 1, January 13, 2011 13:54:31
Till then lets all of us work harder 2 get more ppl 2 vote PR.
Its NOW or NEVER to vote OUT bn
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written by eloofk, January 13, 2011 13:53:43
You are just a novice in the political arena and you are not in the same leaque as DSAI. Dont talk big here but just encourage your coward boss to show his manly instinct and accept Anwar's challenge as your boss is an economist by profession who could grapple with economic issues at ease.
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