Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Mahathir ya kasance mai aiki da siyasa tun daga karshen mamayar Japan na Malaya, lokacin da ya shiga zanga-zangar adawa da bayar da 'yan kasa ga wadanda ba Malays ba a karkashin kungiyar Malayan Union mai gajeren lokaci. Daga baya ya yi jayayya don tabbatar da aiki ga Malays a kwalejin likita. Yayin da yake kwaleji ya ba da gudummawa ga The Straits Times a ƙarƙashin sunan "C.H.E. Det", da kuma mujallar ɗalibai, wanda a ciki ya inganta haƙƙin Malay, kamar maido da Malay a matsayin harshen hukuma. Yayin da yake aiki a matsayin likita a Alor Setar, Mahathir ya zama mai aiki a cikin UMNO; a lokacin babban zaben farko na jihar Malaya mai zaman kanta a 1959, shi ne shugaban jam'iyyar a Kedah. Duk da shahararsa a cikin UMNO, Mahathir bai kasance dan takara a zaben 1959 ba, ya cire kansa bayan rashin jituwa da Firayim Minista Tunku Abdul Rahman. Dangantaka tsakanin Kedahs biyu ya kasance mai tsauri tun lokacin da Mahathir ya soki yarjejeniyar Abdul Rahman game da riƙe sojojin Burtaniya da Commonwealth a Malaya bayan samun 'yanci. Yanzu Abdul Rahman ya yi adawa da shirin Mahathir na gabatar da ƙarancin cancantar ilimi ga 'yan takarar UMNO. Ga Mahathir wannan ya kasance abin ƙyama mai mahimmanci don jinkirta shigarsa cikin siyasar ƙasa don nuna rashin amincewa. Wannan jinkiri bai daɗe ba. A babban zaben da ya biyo baya a shekarar 1964, an zabe shi a matsayin dan majalisar tarayya na kujerar Alor Setar da ke Kota Setar Selatan. An zabe shi a majalisar a cikin wani lokacin siyasa mai rikici, Mahathir, a matsayin mai goyon bayan gwamnati, ya jefa kansa cikin babbar rikici na ranar: makomar Singapore, tare da yawan jama'arta na kasar Sin, a matsayin jihar Malaysia. Ya yi ta kai hari ga jam'iyyar People's Action Party mai rinjaye a Singapore saboda kasancewa "mai goyon bayan kasar Sin" da "mai adawa da Malay" kuma ya kira shugabanta, Lee Kuan Yew, "mai girman kai". An kori Singapore daga Malaysia a shekarar farko ta Mahathir a majalisar. Duk da haka, duk da shahararren Mahathir a matsayin dan majalisa, ya rasa kujerarsa a zaben 1969, ya ci nasara...  Tambaya: Wanene babban mai alhakin yin murabus na firaministan bisa ga Diane?
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