Najib playing with his cards well. Malaysiakini

Najib is playing his cards very well. With Mahathir coming back into the picture. He is providing a vision of Malaysia's Glory days under the Mahathir ruling. But what we fail to see is much has changed from then. We don't have the marketing edge that we use to have. We are to expensive for the cheap labour market and we are not advance enough for the high tech investment. Where do we fit? Nowhere. Many of the problem we face today was because of Mahathir's way of progress. We were in the eyes of the world once but Not always for the right reasons. We are in many ways the same as China. Accelerated growth without substance. We had huge budgets for building stuff but not for maintaining.
Najib made a master stroke by releasing 2 of the Hindraf 5. If he let go all of them then we would think he was scared of the Indian voters. But by releasing 2, he has 3 more to toy with the public. If we fail to support BN then there is a possibility for him to punish the other 3. Not too many and not too little. Just nice. He didn't let go of Vasantha because there was too much speculation of his involvement with BN and Najid surely couldn't let go of the main leader, Uthaya Kumar. He would have gone to on a public hunger strike to get the others out. And he wouldn't want Pakatan Rakyat to have another MP at the Parliement if there were having a crucial vote in the House. So surely Manoharan was not coming out. Najib would had this all planned out much earlier.
Najib might be bad at his work but he is a smart politician. Sadly if Pakatan Rakyat were to win all 3 by election the forces is not going to change so soon. We are stuck with Najib for now.