How to grade the Prime Minister


RECENTLY, at a forum organised by a news portal, one of the panellists, a veteran editor from that portal, gave Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim a grade of D- in evaluating his first year as PM. Before that, former health minister Khairy Jamaluddin gave Anwar a B-.

If someone cared to ask me what grade I would give the PM and the unity government, I would say a good A. Why this discrepancy in the three grades? Let me elaborate my years of formulating evaluation criteria as an educator and as a Muslim.

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