When friends become enemies – the anti-Anwar agenda

By HARAPANDAILY

When friends become enemies – the anti-Anwar agenda

It’s no secret now that Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli is behaving more like the leader of the opposition that a stalwart of PKR and Pakatan Harapan.

Every other day he is trying to do a podcast or making claims and allegations against a government that he himself was part of until very recently.

One has to question why the most vicious attacks against the government of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim often come from former friends and allies.

It’s no longer Umno, it’s not Bersatu which is obsessed with infighting even as the party loses standing, it’s not PAS which has its own long-term plans for domination.

The simple facts are that Rafizi Ramli, wounded after getting a thrashing in the PKR elections and almost topped in PKR Pandan, is not the first to turncoat against the PKR president. He is merely the latest in a long line of them.

Alongside him now are fellow ex-minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, Subang MP Wong Chen, Ampang MP Rodziah Ismail, Sungai Siput MP S Kesavan and a group of others who are not going to be candidates at the next election.

Those supporting Rafizi in his quest to undermine the party from within have only to look at the fates of the Azmin Ali acolytes.

Betrayal

What happened to ministers like Zuraida Kamaruddin, Saifuddin Abdullah and Baru Bian? What about others like Edmund Santhara and Rashid Hasnon?

All of them bear the shame and scars of the Sheraton Move which was a betrayal of the voters and the nation.

So who else is there? Former MACC chief Latheefa Koya and her partner in LFL N Surendran. Rabble rousers Tian Chua and Chegubard.

Ex-ministers Zaid Ibrahim and Darrell Leiking. Former MPs Mansor Othman, Zulkfili Nordin. Ezam Noor, Chandra Muzaffar. Even serial party hoppers like Larry Sng, Jeffrey Kittingan and Kamaruddin Jaffar.

All of these individuals were in Anwar’s party at one point.

All of them turned against him when they didn’t get their way.

Most of them are fighting hard to bring him down now, even as he has re-established peace, prosperity and stability after years of chaos and recession.

The question really is … how many of them are working together to attack and undermine Anwar’s government? What lengths are they prepared to go to? How long before the cracks appear?