Is the Deputy Prime Minister’s latest assertions about potential ‘last minute troublemakers’ a shrouded warning that trouble will be caused if Barisan Nasional loses in the coming elections?
Pakatan Harapan have never been in power at the federal power to be angered and disappointed to lose it. Even during the fateful power grab in Perak orchestrated by Najib and UMNO through unconstitutional means, the only ‘trouble’ was violence that broke out, which was meted out on DAP legislators in the august house of the Perak State Assembly. The images of the House Speaker, now MP for Batu Gajah being manhandled out of the assembly, and locked in a room are still etched in the minds of many Perakeans and Malaysians.
I must also draw attention to an incident of UMNO provoked violence that happened to me in the Kuala Kangsar by elections, footage of which went viral, and was widely reported by the press and social media. A known UMNO ‘troublemaker’ from Langkawi who strangled me, and threatened to punch me in the presence of police and a streetful of voters, to which I did not respond in kind. The troublemaker has yet to be a investigated, let alone arrested and charged- despite being witnessed by the police.
If the Home minister cum Deputy Prime Minister is indeed in possession of intelligence suggesting potential trouble making, why not let the nation know the names and plans of such potential trouble makers? Why the mysteriousness?
Only Barisan Nasional has ever campaigned on the fear of violence in the case of unexpected election results. It seems that they are going back to their age old playbook of stoking fear and anxiety among voters.