ZAM: RAFIDAH TIDAK BERADAB

Seingat saya perkara-perkara seumpama ini jarang atau barangkali tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini. Pada bulan Jun lalu seorang Timbalan Menteri dari MIC bangun dan mempersoalkan fakta yang diberikan oleh rakan Timbalan Menterinya dari Umno. Akhirnya Timbalan Menteri MIC itu telah digantung kerana melanggar etika parti (BN).

Hari ini sebagaimana dilaporkan oleh akhbar-akhbar tempatan seorang Timbalan Menteri mendesak agar seorang Menteri memohon maaf secara terbuka kerana mengeluarkan kenyataan yang menyinggung bekas PM. Kali ini kedua-duanya dari Umno.



Kata Zainuddin Maidin, Timbalan Menteri Penerangan sebagaimana dipetik oleh BERNAMA:

Datuk Seri Rafidah didapati memberi jawapan yang menyinggung perasaan Dr Mahathir apabila bekas Perdana Menteri itu mencadangkan nama mereka yang mendapat AP didedahkan secara terperinci kepada umum

Menurut akhbar THE STAR Zainuddin berkata:

Walaupun Rafidah telah menjawab kepada Dr Mahathir berhubung isu (AP yang dibangkitkan) beliau sepatutnya berbuat demikian dengan cara yang beradab memandangkan beliau (Dr Mahathir) adalah bekas Perdana Menteri.

Rafidah adalah Ketua Pergerakan Wanita Umno manakala Zainuddin sekadar seorang Timbalan Menteri yang bukan pun ahli Majlis Tertinggi Umno. Dari segi etikanya Timbalan Menteri tidaklah sepatutnya memperkatakan sedemikian secara terbuka terhadap seorang Menteri yang sepatutunya lebih kanan dari beliau.

Namun ianya telah berlaku dan mencerminkan betapa haru-birunya situasi dalam rumah tangga Umno pada hari ini.

Umum mengenali Zainuddin sebagai ayam sabung Dr Mahathir yang sememangnya tidak layak duduk dikerusi Timbalan Menteri melainkan atas ihsan Dr Mahathir. Kerana itu tiada hairanya apabila berlaku polemik antara Rafidah dan Dr M, Zainuddin bingkas melenting.

Cuma persoalannya di sini kalau Sothinathan digantung kerana dikira telah melanggar etika parti walaupun berkata yang benar, apakah akan jadi pada Zainuddin dalam hal ini?
Atau memang bagi Umno kini sudah bebas boleh berkata apa sahaja kepada sesiapa sahaja?

Ringkasnya Dr M walaupun telah bersara namun masih bekuasa!




ZAM: RAFIDAH DISRESPECTFUL

As far as I can recall things like this seldom or rather had never happened before. Last June a Deputy Minister from MIC stood up and questioned the facts given by a fellow Deputy Minister from Umno. Subsequently that MIC Deputy Minister was suspended for breaching the partys (BN) decorum.

Today as reported by the local papers a Deputy Minister demanded a Minister to apologise openly for issuing a statement that offended a former PM and this time both ar from Umno.

Deputy Minister of Information Zainuddin Maiden was quoted by BERNAMA as having said:

Datuk Seri Rafidah was found to have given a reply which had offended Dr Mahathir when the former Prime Minister suggested that the names of those given APs be publicised in detail.

According to THE STAR Zainuddin said:

Although Rafidah has replied to Dr Mahathir on the issue, she should do it in a respectful manner as he was after all the former Prime Minister.

Rafidah is the head of Umnos women wing while Zainuddin is merely a Deputy Minister who is not even a member of the partys Supreme Council. Ethically a Deputy Minister should not have uttered such remarks openly to a Minister who is obviously more senior than him.

However it is an actual reflection of the haywire situation currently brewing in Umnos household.

Zainuddin is well known as Dr Mahathirs ayam sabung (fighting cock!) and he has only Dr Mahathir to thank for putting him up as a Deputy Minister which many thinks most unbefitting. Therefore it is expected of Zainuddin to stand up in defense of his godfather Dr M.

The question is if Sothinathan despite telling the truth could be suspended for breaching the partys ethics, what would happen to Zainuddin in this case? Or are members in Umno now accorded free status to say whatever they like against whomsoever they want to?

In short it is evident that even though he has retired Dr M still calls the shots!