Statemanship in Governance NOT Politics – Shashi Kumar

Hi, good morning everyone. Thank you for being here with us today. I would like to thank the high council of Pati Banka Malaysia and thank you very much for accepting me in PBM. Actually to be honest uh in the beginning we never thought that we want to join a political party and all that myself and city were discussing about it because why things are getting worse in Malaysia and we cannot keep quiet anymore. We have been in NOS's we have been activists but at the end of the day we rely on the politicians. So when Pakatan Harapan on 2018 came into the government took over from

BN we all were were so happy. What we were hoping is for a huge change a transformation a reform as what was mentioned by the current PM but nothing happened. It was our all life hopes which were never fulfilled. And we are going back again to the racial religious politics. When you look at Malaysia politics is always racial and religious politics. This is what we don't want. We are rejecting that and we are fighting against that. It's not easy. If you look at many uh political party or politicians, they never speak about racial religious politics. They always

talk about corruption, corruption, corruption. But they don't touch that because why? They want to be very very safe. They choose their battle. But people like me, City, Sam, we we are openly saying that it is wrong to have racial religious politics because that will kill the country. That will kill the nation. That will destroy the unity and the peace of the people. This is what we are saying. Look at our neighboring country. 1.1 million Malaysians are working in Singapore. So what's happening to this country? We are rich with resources. Economically, we are rich. But why we still have so

many B40 category group of people in Malaysia? Where is the country's wealth is going too? Where is it going? Singapore, a nation with zero resources. Look at them today. Look at their currency exchange. So now the biggest question everybody's asking is we are fed up. Who are we going to vote? We can't trust any politicians. I am not going to come out and vote. These are the talks of the town now by the nizens. So now you all have the choice. Here we are to fight for changes. We are not politicians. We are statesmen. We are demanding for changes and we want to make changes. And in PBM

what we have spoken there's no why I like PBM is one thing because it's not polluted it's not tempered it's not corrupted is young and a clean party this is what we want we don't want a corrupted parties people to join PBN we really want to fight for Malaysia is for Malaysians we are standing up for this multi-racial multi-religious multicultural societ society. We want Malaysia to be better as how it used to be once upon a time during the early 80s. You see a lot of unities, you know, uh among the people. Uh when you maybe some of you are young here, the reporters and all that, but those days

we didn't have this kind of problems, you know, we were so united. But now this politician politicians are playing the racial religious card everywhere you go. Every single days racial and religion card. And furthermore, you all must understand what is the meaning of MP member of parliament. What is their job and what is their duty? When you go to their office, what is it that padmat rakat is people's service center what they are doing is customer service. Are they really taking care of the rakyat of Malaysia and MP's job is customer service job to listen to the people to

solve their problem. This is their job. Is this truly happening here in Malaysia today? All our hope has been crushed after we expected. You know when when when I voted for PH, I was so happy. Many of you we we thought there's going to be a huge humongous change in Malaysia. But all this crash down came to a huge uh disappointment. So I'm not going to state uh things very long. Okay. Uh I didn't prepare a huge speech. All right. I'm just picking out what I feel. So here we are. There we are thinking who are we going to vote for? Who can we trust? Who is going to be our

hope? Oh this guy is same everybody same operational scene. Here we are. We are the new people. The new faces. Go for the new faces. When some of them said give others I mean give the government a chance. Okay. Uh uh you know a second term we are finished. Boonkos if we give these people a second term. You see when you apply for a job you are given a probation of 3 months and and they can they will extend your probation for another 3 months if you can't perform for example maximum you have 6 months. All these people here in this government today they have been politicians for

decades but do you see any changes any hope? No. This is what we are saying. So it's not about everything is under the burden of us or party banks Malaysia. The people must work with us. Help us out to achieve what we want. Not throwing everything to us and we are going down and doing this. The people must work together to make things better. And we are here ready to listen, ready to do whatever we want because we have been there and we are still there and we are doing what we have been doing until today. As you all know now I've been fighting for rights of the animals.

So when I look at it when when even a simple stray animals issue also if the government can't solve how are they going to solve the rockyard's issue a nation or a country or a government who can't solve the stray issues problem or the animals issue they are not going to help or solve the people's issue. They're not going to take care of the people. You all must understand that. All right. So, thank you very much. That's all from me. Thank you.