Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who is also Umno president, has directed all Umno members to dominate the social media to counter "false views" against the party and their leader.

"When you see the party president being attacked, you can attack them back."

"Open Facebook and Twitter accounts. If you can't be bloggers, being Facebook and Twitter practitioners is enough.

"When you see false views, you can counter them," he said, before officiating the Bandar Tun Razak Umno division meeting in Cheras today.

Stressing that Umno members must control the new political "battleground", Najib pointed out should all three million of Umno members be active social media users, the party would dominate social media.

"Then we can defeat the 'Red Bean Army' and all, because we have the strength," he said, referring to the alleged opposition cybertropper outfit.

Quoting Einstein who once said that today's problem could not be solved with yesterday's solutions, Najib pointed out that party must therefore use ways which were relevant to today's world.

"We must understand the new battlefield. We must understand the rakyat who sometimes face an overdose of information," he said.

Tabung Haji defended

On another matter, Najib also took the opportunity to defend Lembaga Tabung Haji's acquisition of the Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) land owned by the beleaguered 1MDB.

"When Tabung Haji wanted to buy the land, the uproar was as though the sky was about to fall.

"It's nonsense that Tabung Haji's funds from depositors were to be used to save 1MDB.

"It's not to save 1MDB. Tabung Haji wanted to buy (the TRX land) commercially," he said.

Najib said if Tabung Haji did not want to buy the land ( photo ), someone else would have  done so.

"If there is only a small participation from the bumiputera for TRX, whose fault would it be? Tabung Haji is for the bumiputera and Muslims' interests.

"When we debated this is Parliament, even the opposition admitted. They then gave their support to Tabung Haji not to sell the land and to continue (with the acquisition), because they (the opposition) knew that there is value (in the TRX land)," he claimed.

Tabung Haji had bought 1.56 acres of the 70-acre land in Tun Razak Exchange owned by 1MDB for RM188.5 million. It worked out to about RM2,779 per square feet (psf).

1MDB had a few years ago bought the entire 70 acres of the land from the government for a mere RM194.1 million, or about RM74.20 psf.

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