DRTANKS: Onn Jaafar's Dream - A Truly National Multiracial Party

Tun Mahathir resignation as an Umno member caught everyone by surprise and one politician called it a political earthquake that will shake the party. It is true from the above respondents, whatever Dr. Mahathir does there will be a cause and effect to Umno and for BN too. Some believed his decision has good intention to really help Umno and BN to come to their senses and quickly rebuild the BN dream.

PPP respect Dr. Mahathir’s decision and be independent. As our most respected Mentor, we welcome him to join and work together with us to build a truly national multiracial party in line with Dato’ Sir Onn Jaafar’s dream.

Briefly, Onn Jaafar started UMNO on May 1, 1946 to look after the social economic welfare of the Malays. Later, he was not happy with UMNO’s communalist policies and called for party membership to be opened to all Malayans and UMNO to be renamed to United Malayans National Organisation.

Onn Jaafar's recommendations were not widely accepted and he left UMNO on August 26, 1951 to form the Independence of Malaya Party (IMP). The IMP failed to receive sufficient backing from Malayans and later left to form Parti Negara (PN) to woo Malays from UMNO and restricted other races to join Parti Negara. Neither party, IMP and PN gained popular support against Tunku Abdul Rahman's new Alliance coalition (now known as BN) and he was eventually eclipsed from Malayan political life.

We believe in his dream and let’s come together to build the truly United Malaysian National Organisation within BN and make Onn Jaafar’s dream a reality today and for our future Malaysian generation.

SEGALANYA UNTUK SATU BANGSA DAN SATU NEGARA