Chapter 5: The Academic as Politician, Episode 2: Chicken in a Pineapple Patch is OUT NOW!
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Friday, 29 April 2016
Chapter 5: The Academic as Politician, Episode 1: Curtain Call is Now Out!
This was the year of the “Bahtera Wawasan” campaign. Emerging from the 1987 TeamA-TeamB split, and the subsequent outlawing of UMNO to be replaced by the New UMNO (UMNO Baru) party under the leadership of Dr. Mahathir and Ghaffar Baba, his deputy as president of UMNO (and by tradition the sitting Prime Minister) and deputy prime minister respectively, a team of Young Turks, all strong supporters of the Prime Minister and were senior members of his cabinet (including two MBs), formed a slate (called Bahtera Wawasan – the “vision ship” – a salute to the Vision 2020 goal of Mahathir for the country to achieve developed nation status by 2020) to contest the 1993 UMNO MKT elections; led by Anwar Ibrahim, then Youth Chief, the slate included Najib Tun Razak, Muhyiddin Yassin, Mohamed Mohd Taib (MB of Selangor) and Rahim Tamby Chik (MB of Malacca State). Anwar was contesting the Deputy President’s post, Najib, Muhyiddin and Mohamed Mohd Taib for the three vice presidents post, and Rahim Tamby Chik for Youth Chief. Arrayed against them for the three VP posts were Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Sanusi Junid (both ministers) and Isa Samad (MB of Negri Sembilan).