Having not been able to celebrate National Day in KL, I browsed through the articles in thestar.com.my to see what I missed out. Came across this picture in gallery. The caption says, "Grand display: A tribute in the form of a multimedia presentation to Abdullah's contribution to human capital development at Stadium Merdeka last night. - 1 September, 2007"
Actually I was a bit surprised to see this. We are celebrating our 50th National Day. But why a tribute specially to our current PM? So, is this a celebration of 50 years of independence or is this a tribute to the contributions of our current PM, who has been in the seat for since 2003.
Ok, so you might say that the PM is the leader and should be paid tribute to, fine. But what about our last four PMs. Why no tribute to them who fought for independence, built our nation and led the country to what it is today. Why not pay respect for their 45 years of hard work and leadership? Are the contributions of the past PMs in the past 45 years not as good as the work of one PM in the past 5 years?
I understand that there was also a small showing of the past and currents PMs during the morning march the next day. All 5 PMs were shown during the march. How is it that only one PM of 5 years leadership was shown during the night celebration?
One should remember that our National Day is the celebration of Independence of Malaysia. Especially this National Day where we are celebrating 50 years of true independence. 50 years of growth. 50 years of development. 50 years of nation building. Not 5 years of the leadership of one man.
I don't blame the PM. Most probably someone from the organiser who thought they should put on such a show to get on the good side of the big boss. Shoe polishing maybe.
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