IS ANWAR A 'REINCARNATION' OF ONN JAAFAR?

'Anwar a traitor': Show of support for DPM's remark

• Aug 14, 09 10:58pm

• About 2,000 Umno members gathered in Batu Pahat to back party's deputy president Muhyiddin Yassin, who had labeled Anwar Ibrahim as a traitor to the race.MORE

DPM konon nya orang Johor tetapi tak ingat ataupun tak tahu pasal Onn Jaafar, orang Johor dan salah satu 'bapa pengasas' (founding father) Umno?

Walau bagaimanapun, Onn Jaafar mempunyai visi yang lebih besar dan ingin melihat satu negara yang meliputi semua rakyat tidak kira bangsa. Apabila cadangan beliau untuk membuka keahlian Umno kepada semua rakyat Malaya (sekarang dikenali sebagai Malaysia) dan menukar nama Umno ditolak, beliau keluar dari Umno lalu membentuk parti baru bernama IMP.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dato' Sir Onn bin Ja'afar (1895–January 19, 1962) was a Malay politician and a Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Johore in Malaysia, then Malaya. He was the founder of United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and was also responsible for the social economic welfare of the Malays by setting up the Rural Industrial Development Authority (RIDA). His son was Tun Hussein Onn, the third Prime Minister of Malaysia and his grandson is Hishammuddin Hussein, currently the Minister of Home Affairs in the Malaysian Cabinet.

Political activities

Onn was very active in the Malay nationalist movement, founding the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) as a means to rally the Malays against the Malayan Union, which was perceived as threatening Malay privileges and the position of the Malay rulers. Onn took up the role of UMNO's president on May 1, 1946. When plans for the union were withdrawn, Onn was made Menteri Besar by the Sultan of Johore.

Later, he was disgusted with what he considered to be UMNO's communalist policies, and called for party membership to be opened to all Malayans, and for UMNO to be renamed as the United Malayans National Organisation. When his recommendations went unheeded, he left the party on August 26, 1951, to form the Independence of Malaya Party (IMP). However, the IMP failed to receive sufficient backing from Malayans, and eventually Onn left it to form the Parti Negara, which placed membership restrictions on non-Malays in an attempt to woo the Malays.

Neither party gained popular support against Tunku Abdul Rahman's new Alliance coalition and he was eventually eclipsed from Malayan political life.