Monday, October 3, 2011

"Pakatan has hoodwinked S’gor folk"

Selangor MCA publicity chief Yap Pian Hon has hit out at the state government for pursuing 'populist policies' which failed to bring developments

Teoh El Sen September 29, 2011 , Free Malaysia Today


KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Rakyat has successfully hoodwinked the Selangor folk with its “populist policies” which fail to address the state’s long-term development, a veteran Barisan Nasional (BN) leader claimed.

Selangor MCA publicity chief Yap Pian Hon said that if the people continued to be fooled by Pakatan’s short-term “goodies”, Selangor would eventually be a failed state.

“Since 2008 till today, we cannot see a socio-economic master plan for the state. Just because the infrastructure from BN’s time was good, Pakatan can’t claim credit for the Selangor’s developments,” he said.

“They (Pakatan) had it easy,” said Yap.

He pointed out that no big projects had been launched to further spur economic growth. “The Pakatan government just allocates some money to Tamil schools… that’s all we’ve seen,” he said.

Yap said that in the few years Pakatan has been in power, it has not been short on controversies.

“Pakatan’s controversial issues just never end. It just goes to show how divided DAP, PKR, and PAS is. They are nothing like BN. They don’t even have their own united symbol and their political ideologies are all totally different too.”

“They are together just to gain power. If just one party withdraws, then they will fall. They are not solid at all,” Yap said.

“They are not a pakatan (pact). In BN, we have differences but we are one. The opposition (parties) only quarrel with each other all the time; how can they be trusted?”

DAP will never back down from certain stands and PAS will never adapt, said Yap, citing the recent controversy over hudud, and other disagreements between DAP and PAS, particularly on issues such as the morality of staging concerts.

“Just take the church raid by Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) officers. The Selangor government has not solved it until today. No decision, just silence,” he said.

Hiding the facts

Yap also cited several new “bad” policies that the Selangor government has come up with.

“In November 2010, there was a new gazette (Development Charge Rules 2010) that sought extra charges from housing developments. Some developers were very unhappy about this as this would further burden them, and in the end burden the house buyers as well,” said Yap.

He cited another “bad policy”, which was the home ownership scheme introduced by the Selangor government in June to enable the people in the state to own homes with a flexible premium payment.

Yap said the government was trying to pull wool over the people’s eyes by saying that they could own property by merely paying RM1,000 through the scheme. “But the government purposely neglected to mention that they had to pay a much higher premium to mortgage or transfer the land,” said Yap.

He added that the guidelines (on home ownership) during BN’s time were better.

“Pakatan is hiding the facts… It is cheating the people this way. It is not a good policy for the people,” claimed Yap.

On Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah’s explanation that “the scheme is to encourage villagers to continue staying on the land, not to sell the property,” he said Pakatan’s motive was all political.

“You’re going against the laws. You’re doing things that are not benefitting the people. Why change the laws from BN’s time if they were good? All for what? You are just getting more funds for the general election,” said Yap.

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