ADUN SPEAKS | It is understandable why Rafique Rashid Ali (Pejuang’s federal territory deputy division leader) sprang to the defence of Pejuang’s leader and the twice former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad.

Rafique took umbrage at the fact that I was a perennial pessimist when it came to Mahathir and that I should not have called a Pejuang a mosquito party.

It does not take a pessimist or an optimist to comment about the contributions or non-contributions of Mahathir.

It is better to be a pessimist in pointing out wrongs rather than an optimist in remaining silent about wrongs.

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