Kesetiaan Kepada Raja dan Negara

I was raised to memorize 5 principles of Malaysian Citizen Rukun Negara..
Maka saya, rakyat Malaysia berikrar .....
1) Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan
2) Kesetiaan Kepada Raja dan Negara
3) Keluhuran Perlembagaan
4) Kedaulatan Undang-undang
5) Kesopanan dan Kesusilan
In the 2nd principle, it called for utmost respect and abide to the King and Country. Well, I start seeing that our leaders are challenging these fundamental principles of Rukun Negara. Not just once, but twice but with more people follow suit. First incident being Lim Kit Siang called for open boycott to Reagent of Perak on the appointment of MB from PAS member. Immediately, tremendous responses emerged from ruling party shooting on this action as "Biadab" or no respect to the Royal. Later, Mr. Lim knowing his fault on such issue and offered an public apology. Nevertheless, there were still disatisfaction voices that such public apology was not sincere and not meaningful as it had challenged the Royal. Second case, it happens in Terengganu where the Sultan or Yang Dipertuan Agong had appointed a different BN party member as the MB and had openly dis-approved the choice of the BN leader. There were 22 ADUNs in this matters openly boycotted the initial appointment ceremony and pledged "no trust" to the Agong appointed MB. In this context I believed there was no Chinese involved in this 2nd case but there was also agenda called for open boycott. And if so, isn't this also consider "Biadab" because it challenged the Royal appointment? So much so, it is the Malay that called for boycott to the Sultan. This is a case of "pengkhianat" if to be extreme, right? Why in this case, there was no ruling party or component party open fire on this?
Why we are seeing two different responses from the ruling BN? It is not only fishy in one's eyes but these two incidents indicated that
1) I am in charge here and I have the power to act on my will
2) You are not in charge and so anything you do is not right for Malaysian
No one is commenting on this issue if the Agong has such constitutional rights to declare his own appointment on the matter of MB. I believed there must be some logic and some reasons behind why our Agong is openly reject the recommended MB from the ruling power. In my opinion, our Agong will be careful in such manner as Agong will definitely has his Royal lawyer to advise him on the action. But, I as the common citizen would "minta ribu ribu ampuan" from the Agong to unveil the reasons behind this issue as I believed the Agong's words will not be political as compare to the ruling power.
I was teached and raised to abide to the King "Kesetiaan kepada Raja dan Negara" and as such, why are we challenging the decision of Agong so long as the MB is from the same ruling party? I do not understand!
In this matter, all seem to remain silence and "calm" waiting for some "powerful direction" from someone really powerful. Agong, representing the whole of Malaysia has spoken and I believed the whole of nation is waiting to the response or action from the ruling party leader, our PM!
Let's end this but be united to prospel the country forward.

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