Ethnic Indian minorities show their might in the just concluded general elections by supporting Anwar
Malaysia’s ruling Barisan Nasional (bn) alliance led-by Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is facing its biggest challenge in 50 years of uninterrupted rule. The spectacular showing by the opposing parties in last month’s general election has been giving it the jitters. The 13-party coalition is pretty much shaken. “The continued political instability makes for a very dangerous situation,” says political analyst Collin Abraham. According to him and many others the knives are out for Badawi, with his juniors in the United Malays National Organisation (umno) party demanding his head. The BN won 140 of Parliament’s 222 seats but lost five states to the opposition, including three of the most economically buoyant in the federation. The opposition parties protesting government corruption and neglect won 82 of 222 parliamentary seats. It was widely expected that the BN would do less well in the Indian and Chinese constituencies, both of which had been feeling marginalized – due largely to the New Economic Policy (nep) that benefits the majority Muslim Malays over the minority Chinese and Indians. (The Chinese particularly have a chokehold on Malaysian businesses.)
An estimated 69% Indian settlers voted for the opposition, which benefited from a sharp voter swing; it was as much as 42% in the case of the Chinese who constitute 33% of the 28 million population.
Malaysia’s ruling Barisan Nasional (bn) alliance led-by Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is facing its biggest challenge in 50 years of uninterrupted rule. The spectacular showing by the opposing parties in last month’s general election has been giving it the jitters. The 13-party coalition is pretty much shaken. “The continued political instability makes for a very dangerous situation,” says political analyst Collin Abraham. According to him and many others the knives are out for Badawi, with his juniors in the United Malays National Organisation (umno) party demanding his head. The BN won 140 of Parliament’s 222 seats but lost five states to the opposition, including three of the most economically buoyant in the federation. The opposition parties protesting government corruption and neglect won 82 of 222 parliamentary seats. It was widely expected that the BN would do less well in the Indian and Chinese constituencies, both of which had been feeling marginalized – due largely to the New Economic Policy (nep) that benefits the majority Muslim Malays over the minority Chinese and Indians. (The Chinese particularly have a chokehold on Malaysian businesses.)
An estimated 69% Indian settlers voted for the opposition, which benefited from a sharp voter swing; it was as much as 42% in the case of the Chinese who constitute 33% of the 28 million population.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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