Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. — Picture by Choo Choy MayKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 — Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today praised Umno’s move in appointing well-known personalities as its Supreme Council (MT) members, saying that it was indeed an inclusive transformation for party development.
He said the party’s openness to involve outsiders and non-members in its leadership line-up was a good move to bring about a change in Umno.
“Many improvements have been made by Umno (now) and you can see the differences between before and after the 13th general election.
“They (Umno) also bring in some personalities who are not Umno members to join the Supreme Council. It was a very good move,” he told reporters after delivering a speech at the Umno International Forum 2013 held in conjunction with the 2013 Umno General Assembly here today.
Last Friday, Umno announced the appointment of nine members of its Supreme Council, including well-known missionary Ustaz Mohammad Kazim Elias and Yayasan Dakwah Islamiah (YADIM) president Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki.
On the proposed Umno-PAS ‘muzakarah’ (dialogue), Dr Mahathir said it was a good approach to find mutual understanding between the two Malay parties.
“There is no difference between PAS and Umno. People who founded PAS were Umno members,” he said.
While admitting that the two parties might have different opinion in certain issues, Dr Mahathir said he believed that they could be resolved if both parties agreed to put public and nation’s interests before their own. — Bernama
Dear brother and sister,
ReplyDeleteI am Myanmar who working in Malaysia more than 10 years and I would like to explain about SAMNAK SAMBODHI BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION. Therefore, recently I stayed at SASANARAKKHA BUDDHIST SANCTUARY (SBS), Taiping, Perak. I am very close with Ven. U Nandiya Maha Thero.
My monk Ven. U Nandiya is very good heart and compassion to everyone in the world, also I heard when he stayed at Kuala Lumpur Buddhist Temple, he lends donation money to President of Temple (DATUK YIP KUM FOOK, MCA Gombak) with amount RM20,000.00 only and he said that money belong to Myanmar society in Malaysia.
On the other hand, my monk said, also many things happened when he stayed there because committees always disturbing, I am very sadly about that matter, why committees are very poor and crooks. Others Temple, people come to Temple to respected Buddha and Monks, also give red packet to monks. Why this Temple, monks must give money to committees, this is opposite.
If anyone receive or read this message, please inform to DATUK YIP KUM FOOK (president of Temple) to return that amount to my monk as soon as possible.
My monk contact place:
Ven. U Nandiya
SASANA DAJA BUDDHIST TEMPLE
49 Bombay Street, Lidcombe NSW 2141.
Tel: (02) 9649-8124
With kindness
KO KO NAING
Taiping, Perak, Malaysia
Anyone visiting this Buddhist Temple must be careful with the committee members as they can suck your money and the president of the Temple is also more sucking monks’ money already, add and call the police to arrest Buddhist monks…. And please share this message with your friends and everyone you know