COMMENT | I will be honest. I have waited a long time to criticise Tajuddin Rasdi’s blind support of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s lacklustre leadership.

However, I had held back because I have always resisted the urge to criticise our contributors out of respect.

However, his latest commentary criticising our regular columnist Mariam Mokhtar, where the latter berated Anwar over the temple issue, made me realise there is a need to revise my stance.

This is especially true when an academic can make nonsensical arguments just to back a leader who has repeatedly failed the people by not carrying out reforms he had promised for decades.