"Manifesto is not a promise" is the ultimate statement made by Selangor Chief Minister, which still haunts rakyat until today. In other words, Khalid stressed that PR;s Manifesto is just a lie.
With that, yesterday, PR announced that the party will launch its latest Manifesto for GE13.
The manifesto known as 'People's Manifesto', goes with the slogan "Pakatan Harapan Rakyat", contains for main core, People in Brotherhood, People's Economy, People's Well-being and People's Government.
Even though PR's manifesto do not mean anything because it is not a promise for people, preparing the manifesto, as stated by its Strategic Director, Rafizi Ramli, took 18 months worth of deliberations and discussions, before it was presented twice to the coalition's presidential council.
He also said that this 'Manifesto Tipu Rakyat' brings together all policies based on Pakatan Rakyat's common policy, the Orange Book and specific programmes which have been earlier announced through PR's 2012 and 2013 budgets.
Loooking back at 2008′s manifesto Tipu Rakyat, it also contain a few main core which covers administration, rakyat's social and well-being, rakyat's health and rakyat's security.
In its detail, there was a pledge to ensure ADUN and Exco would remain transparent, establishing a special body to investigate misappropriation of land and its resources on states, and to stop projects that seems wasteful.
However, the thing that happened was land and resources kept on being used inappropriately, MACC's investigation on corruption case involving PR Exco was politicized which led to the death of a vital witness, and wasteful projects kept on running.
Regarding providing money to rakyat in the other hand, including money for children of Selangor who are in universities, starting fund for Selangor babies, TASKA subsidies, single mothers' allowance, housewives' allowance, insurance for OKU, scholarship, free pre-school education and home for every family, does not go anywhere.
However, Selangor government denied that the claim that they have not paid any of the fund promises and according to their checklist, a few matters have been implemented, ot in other words, a few rakyat did get the benefit. They include TASKA subsidy worth RM50-RM100 and starting fund for Selangor-born citizen worth RM100.
We cannot help but to ask, who received those funds? Because, no procedures were followed in terms of announcements, to inform rakyat on ways to claim for these promises. Instead, they simply claim that rakyat have gotten those things.
Also mentioned, assessment tax will be reduced, However, not just that it was not implemented, a few areas in Selangor, the tax was increased.
The same thing goes to the statement saying that they would observe development and preserve the environment. Let's not talk about development, they cannot even manage the matter of waste management issue in kedah Selangor, Kedah and Kelantan, which never really occurred during BN's era.
Whatever it is, we should accept that rakyat do not have any rights to question promises that are unfulfilled because "Manifesto Is Not A Form Of Promise" and that it is just a "Lie".
Thus, rakyat should not hope for anything from PR's Manifesto Tipu Rakyat that will be launched this February 25, because it is just another paperwork to please rakyat.
Not all Malaysians are as stupid as Anwar Ibrahim who failed to understand simple economics which almost led this country towards bankruptcy when he was the Finance Minister.
Besides, no one need to be smart to understand the statement 'Manifesto Is Not A Form Of Promise".

These days, UMNO has been working hard to approach Ulama group other than hosting religious programs involving international Ulama. This new approach proves how serious UMNO really is in defending Islam, and Malays as its 'guards' for Malays' status as well as the Royal Institution.
Even then, UMNO never uses religion for any political motives. Instead, UMNO often welcome opinions from Ulama to find ways to strengthen UMNO's 'nature'. There is even rumor saying that UMNO will be listing a few Ulama as the party's GE13 candidates.
Few of the names include a personality from Ulama Muda Umno (ILMU), Ustaz Fathul Bari Mat Jahaya.
ILMU features religious leaders which practices professional approach towards their ceramah, by using academic arguments and promotes unity to drive ummah towards the advanced culture in order to stay relevant today.
However, at the same time, we realize that such approach seems a but tough to gain any interest from most Muslims who love the light form of dakwah, opposing, being sarcastic, criticizing and insulting others, which does not promote unity at all, other than getting away from Islamic teaching which forbids us from taking over Allah's role to sentence and judge others.
That is why, we hope that if any leaders in ILMU ever get into the political arena, this could change the ways Malaysian Muslims think.
Other than ILMU, there is another rumor saying that a few other names listed as part of UMNO's political arena include Perlis Mufti, Dr Juanda Jaya and Ustazah Norbahiyah as well as a few others.
If the rumors are true, then these Ulama should realize that their role is not limited to religious issues only, they should also have the skills to administrate and understand the intricacies of the economy.
We do not want their constituencies to end up like Kelantan, a slow undeveloped state led by 'Ulama'. We do not want anyone to make fun of the term 'Ulama' and 'Islam' just because these leaders are unable to perform their task well.
The interesting thing about UMNO's commitment in improving the party by getting a lot closer to Islam would be their closest competition, PAS. PAS is somehow taking the opposite approach. Since they work alongside DAP and PKR, PAS has been working hard to show an open image, leaving their extreme image.
PAS is proud to get celebrities endorsing their party and at the same time, tries to portray that Ulama PAS are moderate people. PAS often promote problematic celebrities such as Bob Lokman, Abby Abadi or Aishah as 'icons', even more than their Ulama. These celebrities are dragged around the country to give ceramah on religion, something which they just recently found.
You can imagine how ridiculous their ceramah are, blaming others by saying that they are turning kafir, and how they became so 'arrogant' that they end up challenging to debate with Ulma, just because the Ulama do not support PAS.
PAS claimed that they managed to have these celebrities as the proof to the effectiveness of their tarbiyah. The fact is, this only show how uneducated the celebrities are.
Looking at how determined PAS is to prove that their party practices openness, it is not impossible that PAS would list these celebrities as their GE13 candidates.
If that is true, Malaysians can expect to watch one of the most lively election campaign in history as Ulama UMNO clashes with PAS celebrities.