Is BN the weakest link in the Madani government?

GOPAL NAIDU

The above question may rile up Umno but the unresolved issues involving Umno and its Barisan Nasional (BN) counterparts seems to be unending anytime soon.

What MIC deputy president Datuk M Saravanan described as being treated as step child seems to be a reality for many in the party.

Kedah, Penang, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur MIC have echoed the same.

And of course, in the past few weeks several Umno supreme council members have run down their BN counterparts.

Mind you, the same issue is also a factor for the MCA.

Both have been left aside by Umno even though all three parties make up the key components of BN.

How vital Umno is? In the ship called BN, Umno is the captain of the ship.

While some within Umno can claim that some parties that are now Friends of BN can take over the role both MCA and MIC, those parties are relatively flies as many are not even known on the ground.

One doesn’t need to ask about the influence of those parties among voters as many are not even known.

The above is in the Peninsular.

In Sabah, BN has been a thorn in the flesh since it has not been able to sit with the ruling coalition of GRS.

As a result of that, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s wish of having GRS, PH and BN to enter the Sabah state elections as a single entity would remain a wishful dream.

The biggest elephant in the room is the current government is made up of multiple coalitions, not parties.

Given this scenario, BN appears to be the weakest link in the Madani government.