Sep 29 2008
Shut down NEP says Chua Jui Meng
No doubt its a party election campaign strategy. Just like UMNO leaders who touched on hot issues to gain votes, MCA is also doing the same. Chua Jui Meng who is going for broke is proposing that the NEP is replaced with a new policy. This is surely going to be made into a controversy, as the politicians make use of certain statements by Chua and start a war of words. We might even see him arrested under ISA either for his own protection or to investigate his statements.
Before we proceed, let’s look at his proposal. Chua says NEP is a bone of discontent for the Chinese and Indians. He suggests that it is replaced with National Economic Consultative Council III. He believed the NECC III would bring back the support of the Chinese and Indian voters to Barisan Nasional in the next general election.
“I believe that a fair and open economic policy will bring in greater foreign direct investment, stimulate domestic investments for a repeat of the strong economic performance in the 1990s and restore the confidence of the rakyat.”
According to Chua, when National Development Policy (result of NECC 1) was in place between 1990 and 2000,:
“The NDP was fair and liberal to all races, resulting in plentiful economic and educational opportunities for all.
“As a result, the non-Bumiputera communities gave overwhelming support to the BN, giving it decisive electoral victories in 1995 and 1999.”
Chua said the introduction of the National Vision Policy in 1999, when the NECC II was established, saw an extraordinary election victory in 2004.
“If we don’t close the NEP before the next general election, I can tell that the BN has to forget about the Chinese and Indian votes because the opposition has agreed that the NEP must be scrapped.”
Thus he stresses that its time to replace NEP. Only the poverty eradication aspect should be retained (in other words - wealth distribution via discrimination is rejected).
The Star reported that Chua reasoned after 38 years since the NEP was introduced, the Malay middle class was now large and securely established.
“The need for the NEP therefore no longer exists, and the Constitutional rights of all Malaysians should be restored,” he said during his manifesto launch here today.
What do you think? Chua Jui Meng for MCA president or ISA?
Bye bye to NEP? Or just do cosmetic changes to it to please the public? Or maintain it?
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