KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — Having been arrested for threatening a riot, Umno’s Datuk Jamal Md Yunos is adamant on carrying on with his plan for a Kajang rally against its assemblyman Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail on October 11.
The Sungai Besar Umno division leader appears to have developed an appetite for demonstrations after #Merah169, and added that the Kajang event will jumpstart a series of rallies against the PKR-led Selangor government’s alleged incompetence that will culminate in a giant gathering by early 2016.
“The rally in Kajang will no longer be a big one. But this movement will be carried out across the whole of Selangor,” he revealed to reporters at a media appreciation dinner he hosted last night.
Jamal, who heads a group dubbed the Coalition of Malay NGOs, said the Kajang rally against Dr Wan Azizah is now targeted to garner between 2,000 and 3,000 participants, but boasted that the giant rally against the state government will see a crowd of 200,000.
“We will speak to the people who live in different areas and find out what problems they are facing. We will monitor current issues and then we will continue to do it in other places.
“Once we are satisfied, then we will gather for a demonstration in the hundreds of thousands at the right time and place,” he said.Jamal said the protests will be aimed at the Selangor administration as a whole, however, he chose to begin with issues in Kajang because Dr Wan Azizah was a prominent leader, being the president of PKR.
He claimed she has been distracted from her role as an assemblyman as she was “a loyal wife” and has to tend to issues with her jailed husband Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s illnesses.
“She has to manage her husband who is purportedly sick. We know that Wan Azizah is a loyal wife. Very loyal. But she has forgotten that she bears the people’s trust,” he said.
On Monday, national daily News Straits Times reported Jamal as saying that he would plan a mass rally in Kajang to protest the alleged incompetence of Dr Wan Azizah as the assemblyman of the constituency.
He reportedly claimed to have met with Kajang residents of various races who told him they felt cheated and disappointed with her service as their elected representative.
Malay Mail Online’s street poll yesterday on Dr Wan Azizah’s performance since taking on additional duties as a federal lawmaker and opposition leader however showed mixed response.
Some voters conceded she has improved in tackling the semi-urban seat’s two biggesr woes — flash floods and traffic jams — since becoming their representative two years ago, while others said they detected no change.While the rally in Kajang is planned to be held on October 11, Jamal said that plans for the giant rally will only be announced in about four month’s time.
Jamal played a prominent role in the #Merah169 rally in Kuala Lumpur on September 16, which was marred by racial insults and brief episodes of chaos.
MALAY MAIL ONLINE
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