It is time for the PAS Kedah to consider letting their top two leaders gracefully step down from the state administration if PAS Kedah is intending to continue with the state’s administration through to the next elections.

Too many damages and hardships have been caused to the state and its people due to the total lack of the modern administrative and management skills and farsightedness by these top two leaders.

Number One has been sickly even before becoming menteri besar. His health is worsening. Number Two is deemed to be unfriendly, dictatorial and controversial even within his own party.

Clear circumstantial evidence all points to the fact that he is the mastermind behind the extreme, controversial and damaging policies made by the present state government.

Among these policies were the:

• the 50% bumi housing quota as a state housing policy in October 2008,

• the ‘secret’ instruction to the PTG to arm-twist the developers to ‘voluntarily’ sign agreements to request the bumi quota to be converted to Malay reserve lots in exchange for approval for new housing projects,

• the rejection of the Kedah Buddhist Association’s building plan,

• the compulsory use of Jawi for all new signboards in the state,

• the recent proposal of demolishing a Hindu temple in Jalan Pegawai, Alor Star and the latest daredevil

• move of demolishing the only pig abattoir in the state

All the above fall under the portfolio of he No Two in state as he is the executive councillor in charge of housing and local government.

It is open secret that a certain amount of profit would have to go to a private well-known company here in Kedah before investors can hope to obtain any approval from the state government for their projects.

All these are hampering and worsening the state’s already badly-stricken economy further.

From the recent statistics on the Bukit Selambau by-election, they showed that the support from the Malays for Pakatan Rakyat dropped from 46% to 41%, from the Indians from 73% to 55%, but support from the Chinese went from 62% up to 79%.

Maybe this is the way for PAS Kedah to show their gratitude for the non-Muslims’ support - by demolishing the only pig abattoir in Kedah.

We do not know what more weird ideas and policies may come, but someone in PAS Kedah has reiterated arrogantly and numerous times in and out of the party that he could do what Umno dared not to do for decades. People are confused.

Is it PAS for All or All for PAS? It is time that PAS Kedah seriously consider allowing more youthful, friendly, dynamic, committed, efficient and open-minded leaders to administer Kedah’s affairs to avoid not only more damage to the people and state but eventually to PAS itself.

Please do not underestimate the mentality of the people in Kedah. If they can bring you up, they can bring you down too. If PAS Kedah wishes to be in power for more than one term, hopefully, they will know what to do best next.