Karpal Singh said
" we are ready for the election, DAP and PR are ready for a battle with
BN"(FMT 21/5/2012). This is a
provocative statements , which give the 'message' that DAP had been well
prepared for the 13 General Election and
will continue to defend Penang. It also gives signal to Penang BN that Penang DAP
is not afraid to BN election machinery . Does its true that DAP Penang is not afraid
to BN young leader that lead the BN
machinery right now ?
But, when we go
futher to Guan Eng statement " next general election would be tougher than
the previous, he called party member not to underestimates their
opponent,reminding them that BN was capable of comming up with magical trick to
regain Penang"(FMT 21/5/2012), from this statement Guan Eng is still not
confident with DAP election machinery especially with the words
“underestimates” BN and he is very confident that BN is still strong when he said "capable of comming up". It shows
that Guan Eng still afraid to BN especially when that is a leadership changed in
BN that is led by Teng.
Though, Karpal
Singh is strongly believed by saying "he called on his party comrades to
work hard to hammer the final nails in the coffins of MCA,MIC and Gerakan in
the next poll"( FMT 21/5/2012), meaning that Karpal believed that MCA, MIC
and Gerakan is dead and forfreited. This is because the BN component cant even
fight DAP in the first place. This is very brave statement compared to Guan
Eng. But Karpal’s statement can be classified as extreamly provocative
statement especially the words “to
hammer the final nails in the coffins”, eventhough its quite weird statement to
as Karpal has just wanted to hammer only
for Penang MCA, MIC and Gerakan but not “to hammer the final nails in the
coffins of UMNO”
Why Karpal did
not mention UMNO? Based on the possibility theory, that is probably because
Karpal knows that Penang UMNO is too strong and also have a strong election’s
machinery that led by Dato’ Zainal , the young charismatic leader. Karpal knows
that the last election ,UMNO manage to stop BN from be wipe out by large
tsunami because UMNO had won 11 seats, but the other’s BN lost. Therefore ,
Karpal Singh was afraid to bury UMNO “with last nail", if its happen Guan
Eng’s government will be violated in every corner and Karpal know the impact,
it will weaken the Guan Eng’s government.
Therefore, the
facts that Karpal is confident as " to hammer the final nails in the coffin
of MCA,MIC and Gerakan " actually is not quite convincing statement to
continue to topple BN in Penang . This is because DAP still must deal with Penang UMNO election
machinery that now is stronger and
stronger. So its true when Guan Eng said not too “underestimate” BN because BN
" was capable comming up with magical tricks to regain Penang". Its means
Guan Eng and Karpal Singh knew the strength of the BN, is in the hands of UMNO.
As to
strengthening his views more extreme Karpal said " make sure that they
(MCA, MIC and
Gerakan) don't come out from their graves any more ". This shows the real meaning of " to hammer the final nails to
the coffin ..." which Karpal want MCA, MIC and Gerakan to die and not rise
again. Although it is naughty and extreme statement, but psychologically it is
a continuous DAP provocation to UMNO in the BN and at this time DAP seen that
BN is not able to attract Chinese and Indian voters to vote for BN. Perhaps
this is what the Guan Eng said that " at least one third of the state's 40
state constituensies are considered " hot spot". This means
two-thirds seats are still in the hand of DAP and DAP very confident that they
can rule the Penang even longer.
Does Teng the BN
new chairman will leave BN Penang being humiliated by Karpal Singh statements?
At this point, the answer is no, because Teng “ and BN at the state level has
launched “Program Semboyan Telah
Berbunyi”, when all the BN election
machinery went down to the 13 Penang parliamentary , to “attack and explain”
all the issues that raised by the DAP. With the availability of this strategy
and program that so ‘aggressive’ for “attack and dissolve”, cause Guan Eng and
Karpal Singh statled on this situation and for that DAP has launched a strategy
to attack Teng.
Does Guang Eng, Karpal Singh and DAP strategies
successful in their provocation against BN? The answer is more ambiguous. What
is clear, Teng and BN adopted a strategy to continuously deal by " face to
face" in the headed for war 13th
General Election and the BN was ready.As what Karpal said " the war drum has been
sounded,the DAP is ready for the war". But for this 13 th General election
may be the “service will change ” in favor to BN in Penang.