Achieving any vision requires strong political will


VISION 2020 was a Malaysian ideal introduced by our fourth (now seventh) Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1991.

But along the way, as we all know, it lost its acuity and the upshot is we didn’t achieve fully developed nation status at the dawn of 2020.

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