Nurul Izzah acts or merajuk?

Nurul Izzah has stunned everyone with her unexpected and most startling actions to withdraw from all government and party post, so as (according to her) to focus on her MP duties in her constituency of Permatang Pauh. It seems her parents, who have gone to the Philippines for a family holiday, are aware of her actions.

Yes, Nurul's decisions have set the Malaysian political world abuzzed with speculations, conjectures and wonderments, but perhaps we may yet claw something out of her silence.

The Star Online reported: Rafizi and Khairy get her gratitude, but not Azmin in which she expressed (as reported): ... her gratitude to Rafizi on Twitter, she added that supporting him for the deputy presidency back then was her best choice.

The rivalry between Rafizi and Azmin is an open secret and the two engaged in a war of words prior to the party polls.

It is also common knowledge among many that Rafizi is aligned to Nurul Izzah and her father Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Earlier, Rafizi described Nurul Izzah as a reformist and a fighter, and that a senior party post was just one of the ways to contribute to the nation.

“Her decision, although shocking, sends a message which should be emulated.“I read it as a decision to retain the idealism of the struggle in the chaotic political scene.

What is obvious or rather more obvious now (because it was already obvious in the past) is the growing schism between the Anwar-Rafizi-Nurul camp and the ever growing-more-powerful Azmin Ali camp, more so when Azmin is known to be allied to Mahathir.

above - Dökkálfar Dwarfs (Latheefa Koya not in photo)
below - Pandan Cats (Anwar famili not in photo)

Dwarfs are strongly backed by Maddy
Cats are damn scared of Maddy who may yet play Anwar out

Also in The Star Online report is the following:

Nurul Izzah also tweeted her thanks to Rembau MP Khairy Jamal­uddin after he praised her as an exemplary MP and a worthy opponent.

“Thank you, YB Khairy Jamal­uddin. You have been an inspiration from across the bench since 2008. Can’t imagine Malaysia without your towering political footprint.

“Rooting for you, albeit as a mere MP now – but rooting nonetheless,” she said.

Khairy said it would be a terrible waste if she did not return to frontline politics.

“I am sure once the country is finally ready for a generational change in politics, @n_izzah will be back,” he wrote.

Very sweet and encouraging. Coincidentally, Nathaniel Tan's wrote an article in Malaysiakini titled The wars to come: Nurul Izzah, PKR and Bersatu (extracts as follows):

... permit me only a slight observation that might have some tiny bearing on the real focus of this article.

Two gentlemen, among so many others, wrote what was upon close reading two very similar tweets (content wise) concerning Nurul Izzah.

Her reply to Rais Hussin's tweet:

“Kindly refrain from ever commenting on my behalf.”

Her reply to Khairy Jamaluddin's tweet:

“Thank you, YB @Khairykj . You have been an inspiration from across the bench, since 2008. Can’t imagine Malaysia without your towering political footprint. Rooting for you, albeit as a mere MP now 😆 - but rooting nonetheless.”

The latter suggested something of a mutual admiration society, to which the joke “Get a room!” would be particularly inappropriate.

I am convinced that Nat's “Get a room!”, no doubt just as a joke, has been salacious, puerile and unbecoming. Let's hope we won't hear anymore of such grubby humour.

In recent times Nurul has tweeted her lamentations chiefly against two issues, namely:

(a) the crossover of UMNO frogs to an over-eager Pribumi which welcomes those frogs with more than open arms, and

(b) her dissatisfaction with the PKR party polls, where she stated: “How can one talk about integrity if you cannot muster a modicum of professionalism?

“In a period of competition, we may be under continuous pressure, but one must watch one’s decorum and lips in facing the opponent, including when a complaint is raised.”

T'was on the day Rafizi Ramli was attacked at the Keningau PKR polling station - aiyoyo, shades of MIC.

Today the MM Online reported that Nurul Izzah, Rafizi and KJ spotted in Bangsar... having tea, or ‘spilling tea’? wakakaka, whilst Saifuddin Nasution was also reported as saying (as reported by MM Online): Troubles in Pakatan, not PKR, drove Nurul Izzah to quit posts.

Doesn't that precisely point to Mahathir's Pribumi frantically recruiting frogs from a supposedly Pakatan-despised UMNO? So Mahathir, what are you up to, and where's your Reformasi?

And if we throw in Nazri Aziz's proposal for PKR, UMNO and DAP to work together to form the new government minus Mahathir and Pribumi in the light of the old dictator going his old lonesome way in resurrecting Mahathirism, I beleive there's ground for Nurul's actions and new associations.