Mahathir quits Umno

Tun Mahathir mengumumkan perletakan jawatannya sebagai ahli UMNO berkuatkuasa serta merta hari ini. Walaupun agak terkejut badak, berita ini pasti mengeruhkan lagi arena politik tanah air yang sedia kacau bilau.

Selain itu, Tun juga menyeru agar ahli UMNO yang lain agar sama sama keluar dari UMNO dan berpesan agar jangan masuk parti lain sehinggalah Pak Lah melepaskan jawatannya. Sehingga

Carian dari Google dan Yahoo selepas beberapa minit penyebaran SMS mengenai berita itu ternyata tidak mengecewakan.

Source:
Bernama
The Star
MalaysiaKini

Malah TV1 melaporkan berita tersebut pada pukul 3 petang tadi.

Beberapa teman mengatakan bahawa Tun meletakkan jawatan adalah untuk mengalihkan perhatian terhadap kes LINGGAM. Ada juga yang berpendapat Tun memang amat merasa kecewa yang melampau terhadap kepimpinan Pak Lah.

Beberapa bloggers anti-Mahathir pula melabelkan Tun sebagai penakut kerana lari dari masaalah dalaman yang sedang dihadapi oleh UMNO. Manakala beberapa menteri dan orang kuat UMNO pula menyatakan rasa keterkejutan badak mereka atas tindakan drastik Tun M.

Ketika dokumen ini di publish, Tan Sri Sanusi Junid juga meletakkan jawatan. Bagaimanapun tiada berita mengenai perletakan Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah dan Mukriz. Takkanlah bapak jer yang keluar...

Timeline

• 1946: Joined United Malays National Organisation (Umno).

• 1947: While a medical student, he wrote extensive anti-colonial commentaries in Malay newspapers under the pen-name "Che Det".

• 1957: Resigned from government service as a doctor. Starts private practice.
• 1964: Entered active politics as Kota Star Selatan MP.

• 1965-1969: Member, Umno Supreme Council.

• Sept 1969: Expelled from Umno for disciplinary reasons. Re-admitted on March 7, 1972.

• June 1972: Elected a member of the Umno Supreme Council with the highest number of votes. Lost in the election for an Umno Vice-President post.

• Dec 1972: Appointed a Senator by the Kedah State Legislative Assembly.

• 1974-2004: MP for Kubang Pasu, Kedah.

• Sept 1974: Education Minister.

• June 1975: Umno Vice-President.

• March 1976: Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Education.

• 1977: Acting Chairman, Umno Liaison Committee, Malacca.

• Jan 1978: Deputy Prime Minister & Trade and Industry Minister.

• May 1978: Chairman, Perak Umno Liaison Committee.

• Sept 1978: Umno Deputy President.

• June 1981: Barisan Nasional Chairman.

• June 1981: Umno President.

• July 16 1981: Fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Minister of Defence (until 1986) and Minister of Home Affairs (until 1999).

• July 17 1987: Umno Political Bureau Chairman.

• Feb 16 1988: Pro-tem President of Umno Baru. Umno was declared an illegal society on Feb 4, 1988.
• Dec 1993: Kelantan Umno Chairman. Chairman, Politics and Constitution Committees of the Supreme Council.

• Sept 1998-Jan 1999: Finance Minister. June 2001 - Finance Minister.

• June 22 2002: Announced his intention to resign from all political and government posts at the final day of the 56th Umno assembly. Appeals from Umno Supreme Council members.

• Oct 31 2003: Retired as PM and Umno president after 22 years.

• Sept 2006: Fails in bid to be an Umno delegate for the Umno general assembly coming in ninth out of 15 contestants in the Kubang Pasu division.

• May 19 2008: Quits Umno