COMMENT | Gerakan is not a party many will pay much attention to these days. Oh yes, the party has certainly seen better days.

Gerakan is now a pale shadow of its former self; something which even its current crop of leaders can readily agree, I’m sure.

Since 2008, when the party lost its grip on its stronghold of Penang, it had significantly declined in influence and popularity compared to its past achievements and prominence, both at the state and national levels.

Many writers, including my fellow columnists here, have not written anything about Gerakan for quite a while. Neither have I.

I choose to write about Gerakan today as...