Say no to erosion of democracy in Johor (updated)

 I will not vote for BN in GE15 if this guy becomes the new Johor MB.

And I'll pray for his uncle to lose in Semberong too.

Updates at 10:15, March 15, 2022

This is an article written this morning by a JB-based journalist.

And he's a Chinese.

Hasni: BN’s unsung Johor hero

By Ben Tan

Malay Mail

We have certainly read plenty about political careers that have been cut short by extramarital affairs or misconduct, but usually never about a politician, who less than 48 hours ago, led his party to a resounding victory and was given a strong mandate to lead in a state election.

In Johor, such a scenario looks set to take place after Barisan Nasional (BN) mentri besar-designate Datuk Hasni Mohammad signalled that he will pass on the all-important post to someone younger.

In a statement issued last night, the 62-year-old Hasni (he turns 63 on March 27) conceded that he will not head the new state government but will instead give way to a younger candidate.

His statement also hinted that he was a victim of political intrigue that was beyond his power. Surprising for a survivor of numerous political turmoils and upheavals over the years.

Unexpected turn of events

As a Johor leader, Hasni has always been conscious about the state’s multiracial demographic. Under his stewardship, he has been credited with steering Johor BN to reject divisive racial politicking, while ensuring that the coalition anchored by Umno remains inclusive and pluralistic.

An Umno insider close to Hasni’s administration said the turn of events was not only unexpected but a disappointment for all within the party and a loss for Johoreans.

“Unbelievable, the MB who called for the dissolution of the Johor state assembly, paving the way for a state election and later giving BN a landslide victory, is not an MB anymore.

“By tomorrow, we would all know if there will be a new Johor mentri besar besides Datuk Hasni,” the Umno insider told Malay Mail late last night. 

Hailed as Johor BN’s “Poster Boy”, Hasni had led the coalition to a spectacular super-majority win after securing 40 out of 56 state seats in last Saturday’s state election.

He had envisioned Johor BN would take the lead on the national stage, ultimately being a model for the coalition’s return as a relevant political force.

However, Hasni's expected appointment as Johor mentri besar yesterday did not take place. Rumours circulated that he was not named despite the clamour that he would return to the post after the election.

By yesterday evening, party insiders at the Johor Mentri Besar’s official residence in Saujana here described the embattled Johor Umno chief as being emotionally withdrawn and that he had accepted his fate.

This was unlike the Hasni who steered Johor throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and had made the bold move to call for a snap state election, despite the risks.

Within Johor Umno, many leaders were rattled and questioned how to explain to the people who voted for Hasni that he would not be MB now.

Even veteran Umno leader Tan Sri Shahrir Abdul Samad openly questioned the unexpected decision on his Facebook page last night, saying he was "ashamed" of his party. 

A dedicated Umno man

Hasni, who rose through Umno’s ranks to be the Johor mentri besar, hails from the semi-urban sub-district of Pengkalan Raja in Pekan Nanas which is under the geater parliamentary constituency of Tanjung Piai (it used to be under the Pontian parliamentary constituency).

The articulate four-term Benut assemblyman and former Pontian MP is known for his pleasant demeanor and well liked from both backbenchers within his own BN coalition, as well as the Opposition.

The same Umno insider described Hasni’s gentlemanly conduct as as his strong point for many years.

“Datuk Hasni is known to avoid personal conflict, instead preferring to use facts to argue his point. He is a fair person without any incriminating scandals to his name. 

“So much so, he is also respected by some of his political rivals,” said the insider.

This was evident during the recent campaign in the running-up to the state polls, where Opposition and rival politicians never directly criticised Hasni. They instead took it out on BN’s national leaders such Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

The trained engineer has been described by his peers as also having an approachable and humble persona. Part of this was due to him being the son of a community leader and village head in Pekan Nanas.

His strong sense of loyalty to Umno was also from being an active Youth wing member and also his family’s support for the Malay nationalist party in the past. 

Such qualities made Hasni standout even when he returned to Malaysia after furthering his engineering degree at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in the United States during the 1980s.

Hasni, who was the Johor Opposition Leader when the federal and state government was under Pakatan Harapan (PH) in 2018, had managed to uphold Umni even after several of the party’s elected representatives in Johor defected to rival Malay party Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu).

During his stint in the Opposition bloc, he pushed for political reforms and better allocation from PH to his fellow BN assemblyman in the Johor state assembly.

Tanjung Piai, first step to reclaim Johor

Hasni’s big break came the following year in the Tanjung Piai parliamentary by-election in November 2019 where as the election director, he led BN to victory with a stunning majority over PH.

In the by-election, MCA’s Datuk Seri Wee Jeck Seng secured a 25,466 majority win over the then ruling PH coalition, while the Bersatu rival only polled 10,380 votes.

Many within BN’s top leadership saw Hasni’s capabilities and credited his efforts for the Tanjung Piai by-election win. 

His efforts were instrumental in what he later termed as the “Johor Way”, where the state’s BN would champion for Johoreans based upon multiracialism and consensus building across races.

First stint as Johor MB

Following the national political maneuvering, called the Sheraton Move that led to the formation of a new government under Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in March 2020, Hasni was then appointed to the post of Johor mentri besar.

From then on, his administration faced challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, starting with a nationwide lockdown, border closure as well as various restrictions.

Despite the uphill task, Hasni and his administration managed Johor well and introduced a stimulus package with several noted reforms. Among them is the increase of allocation for all assemblymen, irrespective of their political affiliation.

He was also among the few politicians that understood the need to boost south Johor’s economy. He noted that as long as the Johor-Singapore border closures are in place, Johor Baru and its surrounding areas will not be viable for business.

Johor polls, a test of BN’s return 

Last year, after Umno ousted Muhyiddin and installed Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob as prime minister, Hasni saw a need for BN to establish a stable state government on its own.

Deputy Johor Umno chief Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said the results favouring BN after the Melaka state election in November last year was a turning point.

“Hasni and the state leadership saw a real need to have a state election in order for BN to govern the state well.

“The decision was made after the death of former mentri besar and Bersatu assemblyman, the late Datuk Osman Sapian in December last year,” Nur Jazlan told Malay Mail.

Despite having an “understanding” with the Opposition PH state assemblymen as well as Perikatan Nasional (PN)-aligned Bersatu in the state administration, Hasni saw the need not to be bogged down by other political parties.

Hasni, who is the Johor Umno chief, together with Nur Jazlan and top Umno leaders then commissioned a study that showed that BN stood a good chance of winning if a snap state election is held.

Following that, Nur Jazlan and BN chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who is also the Umno president, worked tirelessly behind the scenes to plan a state election.

After the dissolution of the Johor state assembly in January, Hasni led the state election campaign with a stability theme as well as his “Ikhtiar BN Johor” pledges comprising economic growth, people’s wellbeing, the youth of Johor, governance with integrity and political reforms.

The pledges hit a note with Johoreans for being realistic and the result was last Saturday’s win after the ruling coalition secured 40 out of the 56 state seats.

For Hasni and the entire BN leadership, It was above expectations as the Umno-led coalition consisting of both MCA and MIC, had initially targeted to secure about 34 to 36 seats at most.

A new Johor MB?

Late last night, social media was abuzz about the new Johor mentri besar candidate, who some claimed was newly-elected incoming Machap assemblyman Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi.

Onn Hafiz is the great-grandson of Datuk Sir Onn Jaafar, Umno’s founding member and first president. The 44-year-old career politician is also the nephew of Senior Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.

Speculation and rumours also point to Onn Hafiz being the preferred choice of the Johor Palace.

Prior to the state election, the young politician’s name has also emerged as being a potential Johor mentri besar, taking into consideration of his family’s illustrious political heritage.

The ‘Johor Way’

Today, we should know who the new Johor mentri besar will be; he will also most probably be sworn in on the same day.

It may be difficult to describe Hasni’s fate as due to political interference, or rather the lack of.

What is certain is that in such testing times, Umno’s duty is to uphold and defend Hasni for it was him that did the same for the party.

He championed and turned Umno in Johor around when the party was at its lowest point in history back in 2018.

Based on BN’s recent win, Hasni’s plan was for Johor to have an all-inclusive state government that will represent the various ethnicities and their interests.

Despite his efforts, he may not lead it.

However, Hasni’s vision for all Johoreans to embrace the “Johor Way” in political discourse will hopefully live on.

Umno should not lose focus after Johor victory

 Well, it looks like I had given Pakatan too much credit in my initial prediction of the Johor election,

• Pakatan could win at most 18 seats in Johor

They ended up winning just 12 seats with one extra, courtesy of the DAP-backed Muda. 

DAP got 10 while PKR and Amanah got one each.

Perikatan, which I thought would be completely wiped out managed to get three seats. Still, that was bad considering that they contested all 56 seats.

BN won 40 seats with Umno getting 33 while MCA and MIC managed to get four and three respectively.

Let's not even mention those who got wiped out and even lost their deposits. They were just jokers from the very start.

Actually, Muda is also a joke, except for the one seat it won in Puteri Wangsa because of the DAP people's hard work there. Without DAP's help, all Muda's six  candidates would probably lose their deposits too.

Despite the landslide win, BN needs to realise that it could not afford to ease its efforts to win back voters' support.

For one thing, they cannot return back to the days of just simply putting any Tom, Dick and Harry as candidates.

Just look at the Umno stronghold of Rengit. BN won there by over 4,000 majority votes in 2018 despite all the troubles it was facing at that time because its candidate, Ayub Jamil was good. That majority was reduced to below 2,000 this time after Ayub was replaced with that supremely irritating Puad Zarkashi.

Hopefully, BN bosses took note of that.

Similarly, MCA candidates managed to beat DAP candidates in the Chinese areas of Yong Peng, Bekok, Paloh and Pekan Nanas because it managed to put good candidates there.

Working well with Umno there also helped them a lot.

Of course, the fact that Johor DAP, which was suffering from infightings, being too cocky and thought they could simply tapau all Chinese areas without much work did help MCA, to a certain extent.

MIC also almost win all the four seats it contested except for the Chinese-majority Bukit Batu as I predicted in a previous post. 

Even that loss was by a mere hundred over votes. 

MIC other three wins were largely thanks to their Umno friends in those Malay-majority constituencies.

Some keep harping on the low voters turnout as the reason for BN's landslide victory but I believe the outcome would still be more or less the same even if  the turnout was100 percent.

Most people are just fed-up with the instability in the country since Pakatan's win in 2018.

What did they get since then?

Stupid political infightings, stagnated economy, worsening racial sentiment etc.

Now, I'm expecting the general election to be called not long after Raya.

Very hard for Ismail Sabri to resist the pressure on that after this solid BN's victory in Johor.

He also needs to check on his people before that happened if he wishes to survive in Umno.

He can't let people like Annuar Musa to continue doing nonsense stuff such as the 5G rollout flip flop or he will also be swept into the longkang.

Yup, despite the positive vibes after this Johor election, Umno still needs to continue cleaning up its house.

Otherwise it would get quite a few nasty surprises in the next general election.

People may still tolerate the so-called court cluster individuals trying to save themselves but they may not be so kind if Umno tries to impose the same bunch as candidates again.

Please Umno, as much as we can't stand Pakatan, we don't want you to repeat the same mistakes you did in 2018.

Continue to clean up your act, okay.

Does Ismail Sabri really care about kampung kids climbing trees to get connectivity?

 I'm actually starting to dislike the current government people in Putrajaya.

The other day, a friend in JB complained to me about PMO people coming up with a programme at the Angsana shopping mall, which was actually part of BN's campaign for the state election.

Civil servants were said to have been ordered to attend the event, which my friend described as "lavish".

He believed that some people in PMO were making money from it.

The whole thing smelled rotten as it was with BN's campaign in their doomed 2018 general election efforts.

I actually wrote about it back then in this post right after GE14

• Two lumps of shit and a question to Khaled Nordin

Someone needs to stop this nonsense. Johor BN doesn't need another round of shit like that.

I noticed that this disease of profiteering is starting to creep in again among people who supposedly working for PM and others in power.

Just look at the 5G rollout issue.

Today The Star came out with this story;

Govt leans towards dual 5G network

excerpts

Ahead of the Cabinet’s final decision on Friday, sources told StarBiz that decision makers within the government are “leaning more” towards the DWN (dual wholesale network) model as compared to the single wholesale network (SWN) model where MNOs gain 5G access from a single provider for a wholesale price.

That single provider is DNB, which is a special-purpose vehicle (SPV) wholly-owned by the Finance Ministry.

Once the DWN model takes off, there will be another 5G wholesale provider, via a consortium privately-owned by MNOs. The second provider will build its own infrastructure without the government’s involvement.

Now, what is this ding dong nonsense is all about?

Why the government is flip flopping on this issue.

They should stick to their original decision on this and not backtracked on it.

Anyway, if they want to have DWN, then don't la come up with the SWN in the first place.

No need to set up DNB and bullshitting about ensuring better connectivity in the rural areas and such.

Just let the telcos take care of everything from the very start.

Let them make more money out of people's pockets with their lousy services.

Ya, the telcos services are actually quite shoddy okay.

This is one complaint

Hello, dropped calls in the 21st century is inexcusable

Well, really, if the government wants the telco vampires to continue sucking our blood, then just say so la from the very begining.

No need to bullshit about caring for kampung kids who have to climb trees to get the telcos' lousy 4G or 3G or whatever.

Now, I suspect that someone really tried to change the situation with the SWN proposal but the guy now is being overwhelmed by those looking after the interests of the telcos and pushing for the DWN model.

We better be on the look out and see who these people are and check how much they are making over the whole thing.

I think they are making a lot, okay.

Seriously, even the argument that the DWN was to prevent monopoly is bullshit.

We all know the DWN will eventually kill off DNB because the telcos will concentrate their 5G rollout efforts in the lucrative urban areas as they have always did in the past.

DNB will meanwhile has to struggle to provide the rural areas with the services and of course it will eventually die off if it tries to do that.

In the end the whole 5G thingy will entirely be run by the telcos and the kampung kids will go back to climbing trees to get connectivity.

The digital divide reached a flashpoint  when 18-year-old Veveonah Mosibin, from Kg Sabanalang Pitas in Sabah, went viral in March 2020 after she posted a video of herself studying on top of a tree in order to sit for her exams.

Meanwhile the bastards in Putrajaya will burp off their filled stomoch from what they got from the whole deal.

Oh, and how much will tax payers' money will be lost if the initial SWN plan is to be cancelled and DNB closes shop to make way for the telcos' DWN?

Does Ismail Sabri care?

Sigh.

So much for all that Keluarga Malaysia jingoism.

Umno people in particular better start asking Ismail Sabri what the hell his people are doing.

If he cannot answer, then they need to kick him out right very now.

Demand for GE15 to be held as soon as possible before more damage is fully done.

Umno people, you all better set up a new government and stop the nonsense and bullshit right now.

End the gravy train before it even start or the rakyat will sooner or later punish you all again like in 2018.

BN's Johor election problems

Apparently it's not really smooth sailing all the way for BN in the Johor election.

Just talked with my main source in Johor and he told me that BN may lose at least three seats which they should by right could win easily.

The seats are Rengit, Mahkota and Kemelah.

According to my source, Umno grassroots in Rengit were very unhappy with the party leadership's decision to replace long serving assemblyman Ayob Jamil by putting Puad Zarkashi there as BN candidate.

Well, I don't blame them as I also dislike Puad, who is the Batu Pahat Umno division chief.

As far as I'm concerned, Puad has always been a problem for Johor Umno as far back as the 2004 general election. I wrote about the guy before.

Rengit has always been an Umno stronghold and it would be a big blow to the party if it loses the seat, especially now that all indications pointed to most Johorean Malays are again supporting the party.

Reports suggested that Puad had won the candidacy due to his closeness with Zahid and Najib.

However, I'm more inclined to believe that the guy got the candidacy because Johor Umno chief Hasni can't stand him bugging for it. Puad did that before, causing BN to lose the Batu Pahat parliamentary seat in 2013 general election.

Hasni may also gave in because he wanted to avoid the party's machinery in Rengit from being sabotaged.

As for Mahkota, I was told that Umno's machinery there has barely moved as the result of the party's decision to exclude Kluang division chief Jais Sarday. It has instead put a Wanita candidate there.

Jais is quite an outspoken grassroots leader and had in the past bravely spoke against several decisions of the leadership, including those made by Zahid.

His people may not see the point of going all out for the Wanita candidate because of that.

In Kemelah, which is another Umno stronghold, grassroots members apparently were very unhappy over the decision to field an MIC candidate there.

Similar to what is happening in Mahkota, the party's machinery has hardly moved there despite campaigning entering its second week.

Despite such problems, my source was still confident that BN will win at least 41 of the 56 seats being contested.

Surprisingly, he now believes that MCA may win up to five of the 15 seats that the party is contesting.

The five seats are Puteri Wangsa, Pekan Nenas, Bekok, Johor Jaya and Stulang.

He said even Johor DAP chief Chin Tong is in danger in Perling.

I'm however less optimistic about MCA chances, limiting them to only winning at most three seats.

Then again, my source is on the ground while I'm just monitoring the situation from afar.

 I have decided not to go to Johor for the election because of the Covid-19 situation.

Even my mother had tested positive the other day. Probably because of all that CNY celebrations. She suffered mild symptoms and currently being quarantined at home.

Also, I don't have the budget to go down to Johor.

Yup, I'm that poor now because of Covid-19.

I mostly avoid moving around as I'm trying to save money for petrol, tolls and parking.

If I go down to Johor, I will likely have to incur more costs as I have to stay in a hotel.

I always stay at the budget Tune Hotel in JB.

Well, never mind.

I believe the economy will pick up again sooner or later and hopefully my finances will improve and I can move around more like before.

Cheers.

Putin's Ukrainian Nazis

I have actually been following the development of events in Ukraine quite closely for weeks, even before the actual Russian invasion started.

After all, the conflict there will have a global impact, which will affect Malaysia too.

Like many others, my sympathies were more for the Ukrainians.

Russians after all, as I pointed out in my last posting, have not been very nice neighbours.

They invaded other countries and as proven in. the past, they were quite brutal when they did that.

So, when Putin announced that he had ordered a "special military operation" in Ukraine, I was like, shit, there they go again, thousands are going to die.

And again, like many others, I felt that Putin was bullshitting the world when he said among the main objectives of that mission were the deNazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine.

How can Ukraine, which president is of Jewish heritage, have Nazis, right?

But, as I have said, I want to remain objective in my view of the events in Ukraine and for that I did a bit of research about these Putin's Ukrainian Nazis.

Among other things, I found a series of videos made in 2018 by the British BBC about such people in Ukraine.

This is one of them;

Of course, BBC is now more pro-Ukraine.

There were other more scary videos including one, which shows a group of school children chanting "Hang the Russians!".

I'm quite sure now as to what Putin was referring as the Nazis in Ukraine.

Still, I think Putin was probably just using the presence of such people in Ukraine to justify the invasion.

It would definitely appeal to the anti-Nazi sentiments of the Russian population.

They after all suffered 21 million deaths to defeat the Nazis in World War Two. 

A lesson I learnt was that, we shouldn't just dismiss people like Putin as a mad man or monster because he made a statement that seemed outrageous to us.

They may be telling the truth, despite their probable dubious motives.

That's why we need to be objective when told of things by people.

We should do our own research and decide for ourselves instead of just following the narratives preached by others. 

I believe Malaysians need to do that so that we would not be so easily fooled by people, especially those with political self-interests.

Russian explanation

I never really like Russia.

It invaded many countries in the past and its invasions were almost always brutal.

I remember crying when I was very young when I saw images of the Russian invasion of Chechnya in the 1990s.

The Russian artillery firepower and airstrikes totally destroyed Chechen capital Grozny, killing thousands of civilians.

There was not even any real international outcry back then. Nobody really cared what happened to the Chechens.

Maybe it was because the Chechens were not considered Europeans like the Ukrainians even though Chechnya is actually located in Europe.

Or maybe it's because the Chechens are Muslims and therefore their lives are not considered so valuable in the West.

In comparison, I think the invasion of Ukraine so far, has been mild by Russian standard.

In fact, it's not even as bad as the latest American or Western invasions.

The civilian casualties in Ukraine so far has been much less than those in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Russians have yet seen wiping out whole family or a wedding reception with drone strikes like what the Americans did in Afghanistan.

They didn't even carry out any massive "shock and awe" bombardment campaign like what the Western allies did in Iraq.

The Russians, so far, appeared to be mainly trying to surround the Ukrainian cities and choke them to submission.

Even their bombardments of the cities for now seemed mild, considering the amount of firepower that they actually have.

That, at least by comparison to what they did in Grozny back then.

Yet, the reaction against the Russian invasion has been overwhelming with Western media coverage being totally bias for Ukraine.

The Russians were painted as being barbaric and their president Putin a mad man.

As for the sanctions, now even Russian cats are not allowed to participate in international beauty competition.

I'm against any country invading another country too, but I want to remain objective about what is happening in Ukraine.

Hopefully the war will not get any worse and end soon.

Hopefully not too many more innocent lives would be lost.

DAP's wish to control Chinese schools (updated)

 UPDATES at 14:22, March 2, 2022

Looks like someone just realised the blunder,

Pua went ‘too far’ in attack on Chinese school’s board, says Kit Siang

Well Kit Siang, you shouldn't blame Pua too much as I don't think he really understand the significance of the schools among the DAP's Chinese support base.

ORIGINAL POST

Looks like DAP is really getting desperate to maintain their stranglehold on the Chinese vote bank, especially for the Johor election.

The party's leaders of late appeared to be easily irritated by any sign of Chinese moving away from totally supporting them.

This is one example;

DAP man slams school for inviting Najib to speak

excerpts;

DAP’s Tony Pua has slammed a top Chinese school for inviting former prime minister Najib Razak to speak at its Johor Bahru branch.

Pua, who is Damansara MP, criticised the school’s board of governors for allowing this to happen.

“The school’s board of governors has set the worst possible example for our children,” he said in a Facebook post today.

Pua said inviting Najib to speak at the school showed the students that “it was acceptable to cheat, lie, steal and abuse power”.

He demanded that the school governors be sacked for “a complete lack of integrity” in failing to set a good example to students.

Why la so angry Mr Pua?

He even demanded for the school's board members to be sacked....as if the school belongs to his father or something.

I wonder what Pua or DAP had ever done for that school to make such a demand.

In response to that,

Najib defends Chinese school after DAP MP’s outburst

excerpts,

In their defence, Najib said it was him, while being the prime minister and education minister, who approved the development of the school’s campuses in Kulai and Bandar Seri Alam.

He had visited the Bandar Seri Alam branch campus of the school last week to see its development.

“Is it wrong for me to be asked to share a few words with their faculty and students and see how the school is doing after its opening last year?” he asked.

He suggested that Pua’s outburst could be due to DAP’s frustrations at being unable to have its supporters appointed to manage the school.

Actually, DAP leaders have over the past months been issuing a series of statements in an obvious effort to maintain the party's almost total support among non-Malays, especially Chinese in the last two general elections.

Their effort is being led by their sec-gen Lim Guan Eng, who is trying to project himself as the Great defender of the Nons

However, I think Pua's attack on the Foon Yew school board may backfire quite badly.

From what I know, the Chinese community doesn't take too kindly to people who try to interfere with the running of their schools, especially an institution like the 71-year-old Foon Yew High School.

That school is mostly funded independently by the local Chinese community and its board members were appointed among the most trusted individuals in the community.

It's definitely not funded by Pua's father or DAP.

You can read more on such Chinese schools in this previous post of mine seven years ago,

Defending Chinese schools on Valentine's Day

Pro-Pakatan readers of this blog may be a bit baffled as to why someone like me, who was supposed to be paid by Umno is very supportive of Chinese schools.

Well, it's actually because my mother studied at a Chinese school when she was young.

She later furthered her studies at a Taiwanese university. In fact, the words in Chinese characters underneath the title of this blog at the top of this page is the motto of my mom's university.

My mom is a good person and I respect her love for the Chinese education system.

As far as I'm concerned, most Chinese are like my mom when it comes to the Chinese schools.

Oh, and my mom loves this country more than I am, okay. Studying in a Chinese school doesn't make one less Malaysian.

That's how I see it.

Anyway, I don't know how Pua and his DAP gang see the Chinese schools. 

Maybe for them the schools are just a good place for cadre recruitment and fertile ground to whip up Chinese chauvinism among the younger members of the community so DAP can continue to enjoy their total support.