TENGKU ADNAN TENGKU MANSOR, MP PUTRAJAYA ,SETIAUSAHA AGUNG UMNO - OLD CANDIDATE WOULD BE PUT TO PASTURE.

WINNABLE CANDIDATE ?

Tengku Adnan bin Tengku Mansor (born 20 December 1950) is a Malaysian politician. He was the Malaysian Minister of Tourism from 2006 to 2008, and he was appointed as the Secretary-General of United Malays National Organization (UMNO) following the resignation of Dato' Seri Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad on 20 March 2008.
Tengku Adnan joined politics in the early 1980s. He became Treasurer of the UMNO Youth wing in 1988. He was elected to the UMNO Supreme Council in 1993 but lost the position in 1996. He was appointed as Federal Territory liaison chairman in June 2000. In 29 November 2001, he was appointed the Chairman of the Federal Territory Barisan Nasional. In 2003, he was appointed the Chief of the Putrajaya UMNO, and later he won the position again uncontested in the party election in June 2004. In September 2004, he was successful in a bid for an UMNO Supreme Council seat.
Tengku Adnan won the Parliamentary seat of Putrajaya in the March 2004 general election by defeating Abdul Rahman Othman of Parti Keadilan Rakyat.
Tengku Adnan was appointed as the Tourism Minister, replacing Datuk Dr. Leo Michael Toyad, on 14 February 2006. He was dropped from the cabinet following the March 2008 general election, where the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition received a serious drubbing at the polls.

OLD CANDIDATES WOULD BE PUT TO PASTURE
The Barisan Nasional's decision not to impose age or term limits for its "winnable candidates" for the upcoming 13th general election (GE) is aimed at ensuring candidates fielded by the coalition are those voters want, said BN secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.
Tengku Adnan, who is also Umno secretary-general and Member of Parliament for Putrajaya, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's announcement yesterday on this had put to rest perceptions held by some that "old candidates would be put to pasture."
"The air has been cleared yesterday, and I am confident that the BN candidates to be fielded would be welcomed by voters," he told reporters after opening Utusan Malaysia's Putrajaya bureau here today.
Yesterday, Najib had announced that the BN would not impose age or term limits on its candidates for the coming GE so long as they were deemed "winnable."
Najib, who is also BN chairman, said as the coming GE would be tough, what was important was that the person nominated would be the best candidate for the BN.