ELECTION 2008: 'Don't use your votes to deprive us of progress'Come home. But don't use your vote to deprive us of progress and development.
This is the appeal of voters (basically UMNO members) in Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu to their fellow villagers who have made good in the Klang Valley and other big cities on the west coast. [emphasies added in bracket]
More than 300,000 voters in these states have moved to greener pastures, in search of better jobs. Tens of thousands of them return during elections to cast their votes in their villages.
That is cause for concern for those who have stayed put in the villages.
"We want progress and development, too, but if our brothers and sisters who have made good elsewhere come back and vote for the wrong party, where would that put us?" said Zaini Wahid.
Zaini, who votes in the Belantek state seat in Kedah, said it was clear that those who migrated did so for economic reasons.
"That is why it is important that they don't let the village they left to be left behind."
How important are these "outside" voters?
Very important.
"These voters are exposed to development and are more open-minded on issues.
"I hope they will make the right choice between a progressive government and a weak administration," said Datuk Rosol Wahid, the state Umno liaison secretary.
Some 64,000 voters from Terengganu, working outside the state, are expected to return before polling day to cast their votes.
The situation in Kelantan is even more critical. Some 200,000 voters from the state are working elsewhere in the peninsula and even Singapore.
In a state where the margins of victory are in the tens and hundreds, how the returning Kelantanese vote may determine whether the BN wrests the state from Pas -- and bring about the promised development -- or another four years of the same Islamic party's rule.
Note:
Kampung folks in Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah, did you say this? Is this your collective stand?
7 comments:
Has these dumbo asked what got the urban workers to even think of voting Oppositions?
Is is fashionable? Or is it something more? When BN goons elected think they can do whatever they can irresponsibly, now they come out with various reasons for people to vote them back except to back by their performance during the tenure.
Isn't it a bit like the cheating spouse story? When you go and cheat, you were having a good time, then when things broke out, you start coming back to family values etc.
Progress? Development?
OMG. This kinda question are NOT suppose to arise in Malaysian mouth after 50 years.
This is a WTH mindset. Go ask a person what "progress" and "development" means?
Utilities like water and electricity? No, those are basic necessity. Road? Same thing. More jobs? That is economy planning. More houses? Same, economy planning.
So what is progress and development? Live in a big house like zakaria? Have a big car? Earn hundred thousands per month?
I always laugh when urban people go to "kampung" like Kelantan jealous on their "backward" but relax life. And if you ask those leave the kampung and seek a "greener pasture" in the city, you will learn this people don't want drastic "progress" that bulddoze their Kelantan village wooden home and turn it into concrete jungle! They just need "improvement". not a harsh razing of everything, including their childhood memory.
Dear Rocky, when TWO person in
Melaka asked for more toilets and dustbins, you conveniently create a post mocking the BN.
In this post, you saw it fit and conveniently ENQUIRE whether the kampung folks said that and that it was a collective stand?
OMG!
My apology again. You are MAV
Msiaman,
I think the main media is skewing the interviews, just as bloggers do.
As such, it is observed that oppositions have become dependent on blogs to voice their part of the story while the main media being govt controlled had acted for decades as the govt spin machine.
Somehow, it is the circumstances and natural for readers to look for information and differing thoughts that made blogs a main source of political propaganda machine.
Moo_t,
The spin machine will take anything and everything that makes sense, no matter how trivial, to become news; while the 5th estate will pick the other side of the story.
Warrior2,
If the main media believed that 2 persons issue on dustbin and toilet deserves a headline print in their newspaper, I too believe that it deserves a write-up.
Similarly, the NSTP and TheStar had pick on one or two guys to concoct that as representatives of the whole kampung electorate; and also pick a few guys and call them the "Silent Majority".
As there are no alternative media to voice the other side of the news, it becomes imperative for blogs to spin on either side, of which you too are one of them on the same side as the main media.
But MAV, in the case of Malacca, you didnt ASK the constituent whether they said what tghey said and whether it was a collective stand. YOU ASKED the folks of Trengganu,Kelantan and Kedah constituencies!
Warrior2,
I wrote what the main media wrote and highlighted; and I critically observed their spin.
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