While Mahathir is still a giant basking in his past glories, he is fighting the war solitarily, and is perhaps too old to fight now!

Malaysia's veteran ex-leader Mahathir Mohamad said Friday that missing flight MH370 might have been taken over remotely in a bid to foil a hijack, reviving one of the many conspiracy theories surrounding its disappearance.

Many in Langkawi are grateful to Mahathir, but they also look to the future, and are not sure whether the nonagenarian can still deliver.

Foreigners have no idea why many remain loyal to the ruling party despite all the scandals and irregularities.

"From the political point of view, I would not have done this. When I was the prime minister, I promised myself not to do anything that would make people hate me."

"Now we want to win the Malay votes, and we can do it because we are a Malay party... We can talk to them!"

In addition to the abolition of GST and highway tolls, the 60 pledges include also limiting the tenure of prime minister to two terms and that the prime minister will not hold any ministerial position.

According to Pahang PBBM, the party has been given approval by the police to hold political activities in the state.

The opposition camp is still vulnerable and to a large extent depends on the personal popularity of Tun Mahathir in order to win Kedah.

The Malay community is said to be very angry with alleged corruption which they see as the cause of the many scandals faced by the nation.