COMMENT Is Amanah, the NGO that Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah launched today, a stalking horse for a slate of candidates the Umno dissident is maneuvring to field at the 13th general election?

tunku abdul rahman 290809 This speculation inevitably arose as news broke earlier this week that Angkatan Amanah Merdeka (Amanah), already dubbed the ‘NGO of nostalgia' for its aim in recapturing the country's lost age of innocence, was to be formed.

But sources close to Razaleigh say this is not the case. They claim that Ku Li, as he is popularly known, in agreeing to launch and head Amanah, is only responding to a groundswell of nostalgia for the values that Malaysia's founding prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman sought to inculcate...