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PM: Pointless to be popular among party members
Author: azlan/source bernama
Date: 12/09/2009
Kuala Lumpur- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Saturday reminded all Barisan Nasional (BN) component party leaders that it was pointless for them to be popular only among party members but not among the people, to the extent of losing their support.
Datuk Seri Najib, who is the BN chairman, said in a parliamentary democracy, the people had the absolute power and it was they who determined the BN's fate in every election.
He said when opening the 63rd MIC Annual General Assembly at the Dewan Merdeka, Putra World Trade Centre
Also present was Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
In a spirited speech that was greeted with thunderous applause from the 1,464 MIC delegates and over 1,000 party members and observers, Najib said the people of today were much more well-informed owing to the policies of the BN government.
The Prime Minister also said that if BN leaders made it a practice to visit the grassroots often and to be humble to the people, "we will never lose anything."
Datuk Seri Najib also stressed that it was important for BN leaders to demonstrate the kind of leadership valued by the people.
Datuk Seri Najib also said that to be close to the people, he introduced the "walkabout" concept which he started in Petaling Street, Lembah Pantai and Brickfields on the third day after he became the prime minister.
Datuk Seri Najib also said that the BN was an institution and a political structure that had done a lot of good deeds to the people since the era of the Alliance Party, and stressed that only through an political institution like the BN could the country be developed as a successful nation state.
