COMMENT | The one-eyed jack, Sanusi

COMMENT | Kedah Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor is a one-eyed jack: he sees things to the ruthless exclusion of nuances.

He can use state government resources to campaign for political advantage, as he did on April 17 when hosting two student groups for dinner at his residence.

However, when Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim shapes to use federal resources to host Open Houses for Hari Raya in six states, that’s blatant electioneering, in Sanusi’s view.

Two years ago, Sanusi (above) declined to grant a state holiday for Thaipusam but a year later, in 2022, when the national polls were looming, he reverted to declaring that festival a holiday, to entice voters ahead of the vote.

In other words, it’s kosher when I do it but not when my opponent does so.

True, it is very difficult to find “two-eyed” politicos these days, the ones that can survey the horizon of circumstance without excessive focus on their standpoint in the midst...