Bapa borek anak rintik dalam politik Salehudin Hashim Gera

Tulisan Khalid Jaafar

Kisah anak Hashim Gera ini seperti cerita wayang yang berulang kembali, atau babad Pendekar Jawa dalam versi baru. Dalam kehidupan kita sering bertemu banyak perkara yang meletup hari ini sebenarnya berakar pada peristiwa lama yang sudah dilupakan. Yang sakit itu sendiri sudah lupa peristiwa itu kerana sudah tenggelam jauh ke alam bawah sadar. Dan jalan untuk mengubatnya perlu melalui terapi jiwa untuk masuk ke ruang bawah sedar tersebut.

Luka Ezam kerana tewas dengan Azmin tidak masuk ke alam bawah sedar. Lihat sahaja bila dendam kesumatnya diluahkan. Tetapi anak Hashim Gera menyimpan luka, bukan satu, tetapi dua, yang jauh bersaka dalam bawah sedarnya.

Luka pertama adalah kerana dia adalah anak Hashim Gera. Kisah Hashim Gera merupakah lawak politik yang tenggelam timbul. Saya mendengarnya dari mulut ke mulut, pertama kalinya dari pada saya seorang ahli Pas. Setiap kali namanya disebut orang yang mendengarnya akan ketawa. Dia bukanlah seorang ahli politik hebat tetapi kerana adanya dia dalam Pas, parti Islam itu dapat membuat satu adi lawak yang sukar untuk saingi oleh parti-parti lain.

Saya pertama kali terserempak dengan anak Hashim Gera ini ketika dia datang untuk bertemu Raja Petra di pejabat Berita Keadilan yang saya kendalikan. Tetapi namanya telah bertahun-tahun saya dengar dari kenalan yang berkimpung dalam dunia kapitalisme nasional. Meskipun saya ghairah memegang ideologi kapitalisme tetapi kurang berminat untuk bergesel bahu dengan orang-orangnya. Di zaman Malaysia mencatat pertumbuhan 8-9 peratus nama dia disebut-sebut sebagai tokoh korporat. Tetapi dari pendengaran saya boleh menyimpulkan dia berada dalam kelas B atau C. "Siapa dia?" "Boss Turn Around," jawapan diberikan. Saya geleng kepada, "Tak kenal." "Anak Hashim Gera!" "Oh!"

Kerana dia anak Hasyim Geralah dia bercakap hari ini, memberi amaran kepada mereka yang hendak melondehkan dia. Dia menjerit-jerit menaggalkan baju dan seluar, dan menunjukkan seluar dalamnya yang berlubang-lubang.

Masuk dan perginya Hashim Gera ke dalam politik adalah seperti bunga api. Dia menang pilihanraya 1969, menjadi ahli parlimen Pas di Parit. Orang ketawa mendengarnya berpantun. Tetapi sebagai orang Melayu di zaman itu orang baru masuk parti Islam ini suka berjoget. Bila di cabar oleh Tunku Abdul Rahman untuk menari dalam satu majlis makan malam Parlimen kaki Hashim Gera tidak tertahan lagi maka dia menarilah dengan sungguh-sungguh. Dia pun dikenakan tindakan disiplin. Maka profesyen politiknya yang baru bermula pun tamat, diiringi dengan gelak ketawa seluruh Malaysia. Dan gelak ketawa itu terdengar sekali-sekali, sayup-sayup hingga sekarang. Bagaimana anaknya yang belajar di MCKK melawan lawak politik tersebut? Dia melawannya dengan tingkah lagi sehingga mendapat gelaran Chandran.

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The True Dato Sallehuddin Hashim (DSH)

Was he a corporate player as he has been trying to portray himself? Ask the shareholders of TMI (Turnaround Management Incorporated Sdn Bhd). They would not agree as he had saddled them with debts and empty promises and TMI is in bad shape. TMI should turnaround itself and its subsidiaries, Marang Resort and Furniture Village.

DSH had conveniently picked decent and certainly not the least gullible of characters from his ex-school so that he can manipulate and exploit their good nature and intentions to his maximum advantage. Mr. Amin Al Rashid (Class of 68), Mr. Abdullah Hamid. (class of 69) and Mr. Zaharuddin Alias (class of 70) and together with DSH are all shareholders of TMI. All have been cheated, abused, used and manipulated by DSH whom they described as an ‘evil genius’ and someone who used his intelligence in the most negative and destructive way.

He prides himself as a corporate player. The truth is he was never transparent and he will cheat at the slightest opportunity. He always boasts of his so-called success with Trenergy Berhad but he was only a front of a tycoon, who had initially recruited Mr. Zaharuddin Alias who then co-opted DSH who eventually cheated all the shareholders and the tycoon. DSH had not only lied to his partners that he was paid less than half of the RM40 million by the tycoon, but he (DSH) did not pay the shareholders their dues and had also left the company’s debts unsettled – that’s the corporate player that he brags.

DSH is a dangerous character because he says he is not scared of anyone. He said, “Why should I when I am not even scared of God”. He is not honest and anybody who crosses his path will learn that his vindictiveness is pathological. Worse, he is a gambler; he’s reported to have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in Las Vegas. This explains, despite the millions from the Trenergy deal, he has been a pauper for years. That’s why he desperately needs the job in Selangor and was turned down by the Menteri Besar who knows him better.

He is a clown, an actor and an entertainer. The people in the party say that he is hot-tempered. This is news to his ex-classmates. None of his ex-classmates will say that he is hot-tempered. It was purely acting on his part. He was not sincerely fighting for the principles the party is fighting for. How can he be when he is rotten to the core?

His close friends from MCKK who knew him well never want to be involved in any business with him. They don’t even trust a ringgit of their money with him. His nickname is Chandran because out of a hundred words he said, they only believed less than ten which is a tragedy for such a brilliant man whose verbal talent is indeed extraordinary.

The best job for a brilliant man with a twisted and conniving mind and with a pathologic vindictive nature is a dirty job. He would be a very dangerous candidate for any normal job as the MB of Selangor had read correctly.