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Malaysia election: Najib says 'truly illogical' to blame him for closure of Mahathir's bakery
Mark T Bird
Publish date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018, 10:38 PM
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APR 15, 2018, 8:53 PM SGT
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APR 16, 2018, 6:35 AM
Speaking to college students and graduates in Subang Jaya, Datuk Seri Najib said the blame-game is the usual opposition way of pointing fingers at everything that went wrong to the government.
"The strangest attempt is when they tried to blame BN (Barisan Nasional government) for a bakery that went bankrupt.
"Even a bankrupt bakery that was forced to close down is the prime minister's fault? That is truly illogical," said Mr Najib, as quoted by Malaysiakini news site on Sunday (April 15).
The brainchild of Dr Mahathir, the 12-year-old lifestyle bakery and bistro was doing a roaring business serving breakfast and teatime crowds in Langkawi before it abruptly closed its doors last week, along with 11 other outlets in Malaysia.
Tun Dr Mahathir, who now leads federal opposition pact Pakatan Harapan (PH), told The Straits Times on Saturday (April 15) that he had wanted to sell the business to raise funds for his election campaign. Malaysia's general election will be held on May 9.
Dr Mahathir said during a walkabout on Langkawi that he had faced some obstacles from the authorities.
He said he had a prospective buyer, but "immediately the income tax department went to his place and demanded that he should pay a lot of taxes".
"This is the way the government pressures people from supporting the opposition," he said.
The money from the sale will not be "very substantial", he said, "but we don't have any money at all for this election".
"Everybody has been forced to run away from me, all my friends cannot see me. If they see me, the income tax department will come and demand (something)."
But said PM Najib - who did not mention Dr Mahathir by name on Sunday - there have been many financial scandals or losses that his opponent blamed on others.
"RM31 billion (Bank Negara) losses the fault of others, Maminco is the fault of others, MAS (Malaysia Airlines) nearly went bankrupt is the fault of others, Proton nearly went bankrupt is the fault of others, and bakeries shutting down is also the fault of others," said Mr Najib, as quoted by Malaysiakini.
Maminco was a company set up by the government in the 1980s to corner the global tin market, but made huge losses.
source : The Straits Times
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Now, PPBM says BN’s ‘dacing’ illegal for GE14 race
Lawyer Haniff Khatri Abdullah says the 'white scales' logo is nowhere mentioned in BN's constitution.
PETALING JAYA: PPBM has questioned the legality of the white “dacing” (scales) symbol of Barisan Nasional (BN), saying it is not mentioned in the coalition’s constitution.
Haniff Khatri Abdullah.
“The emblem, badge and flag of Barisan Nasional are supposed to be a golden yellow scale on a royal blue background,” said PPBM lawyer Haniff Khatri Abdullah, referring to an article in the BN constitution.
“In the Barisan Nasional constitution, the emblem is described as being a golden yellow scale, not a white one.”
He said the constitution also does not specify the coalition’s official logo.
“Despite Barisan Nasional amending its party constitution several times, the latest of which was in 2013 under Prime Minister Najib Razak, none of those amendments to the constitution included a valid logo or symbol.”
As such, Haniff is accusing BN of violating Section 50 of the Societies Act 1966.
He also said the Election Commission (EC) should disqualify nomination forms from BN candidates on Apr 28.
He said BN candidates could only legally contest as independents with a logo provided by the EC, or use any component party logos except Umno’s.
Haniff said this was because “Umno itself is a null and void party” as it did not hold branch-level elections by Feb 28.
Haniff’s statement comes in the wake of bad blood between PPBM and RoS.
The party has accused the body of refusing to come clean on whether all four PH component parties could contest using the PKR logo in the coming elections.
The decision to use PKR’s logo followed a provisional deregistration order on PPBM by RoS early this month.
PH previously applied to use a common logo, hoping to go to the coming polls as a united coalition like BN. RoS has yet to approve the application.
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GST cause many business close shop,wanna blame who?
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